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23,—Furnace and steam vessels to consume their own smoke.—
(1) Every furnace employed in the working of engines by steam, and
every furnace employed in any public bath or washhouse, or in
any mill, factory, printing house, dyehouse, iron foundry, glasshouse,
distillery, brewhouse, sugar refinery, bakehouse, gasworks,
waterworks, or other buildings used for the purpose of trade or
manufacture (although a steam engine be not used or employed
therein), shall be constructed so as to consume or burn the smoke
arising from such furnace.
(2) If any person being the owner or occupier of the premises, or
being a foreman or other person employed by such owner or
occupier —
(a) uses any such furnace which is not constructed so as to
consume or burn the smoke arising therefrom ; or
(b) so negligently uses any such furnace as that the smoke
arising therefrom is not effectually consumed or burnt;
or
(c) carries on any trade or business which occasions any
noxious or offensive effluvia, or otherwise annoys the
neighbourhood or inhabitants, without using the best
practicable means for preventing or counteracting such
effluvia or other annoyance ;
such person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds,
and on a second conviction to a fine of ten pounds, and on each
subsequent conviction to a fine double the amount of the fine
imposed on the last preceding conviction.
(3) Every steam engine and furnace used in the working of any
steam vessel on the river Thames, either above London Bridge,
or plying to and fro between London Bridge and any place on
the river Thames westward of the Nore Light, shall be constructed
so as to consume or burn the smoke arising from such engine and
furnace ; and if any such steam engine or furnace is not so constructed,
or being so constucted is wilfully or negligently used so
that the smoke arising therefrom is not effectually consumed or
burnt, the owner or master of such vessel shall bo liable to a fine
not exceeding five pounds, and on a second conviction to a fine
of ten pounds, and on every subsequent conviction to a fine of
double the amount of the fine imposed on the last preceding
conviction.
(4) Provided that in this section the words consume or burn the
smoke " shall not be held in all cases to mean " consume or burn
all the smoke," and the court hearing an information against a
person may remit the fine if of that opinion, such person has so
constructed his furnace as to consume or burn, as far as possible,
all the smoke arising from such furnace, and has carefully
attended to the same, and consumed or burned, as far as possible
the smoke arising from such furnaee.