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offending (being the owner or occupier of the premises, or being a
foreman or other person employed by such owner or occupier) shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
(2) Provided that the court may suspend its final determination on
condition that the person complained of undertakes to adopt, within
a reasonable time, such means as the Court may deem practicable, and
order to be carried into effect, for abating the nuisance, or mitigating
or preventing the injurious effects of the effluvia.
(3) The Sanitary Authority may, if they think fit, on such certificate as in
this Section mentioned, cause to be taken any proceedings in the
High Court against any person in respect of the matters alleged in
such certificate.
(4) The Sanitary Authority may take proceedings under this Section in
respect of a manufactory, building or premises situate without their
district, so, however that the summary proceedings shall be had
before a Court having jurisdiction in the district where the manufactory,
building, or premises are situate.
(5) Section one hundred and fifteen of the Public Health Act, 1875 (set
out in the first Schedule to this Act), shall continue to extend to
London, with the substitution of a Sanitary Authority under this Act
for a Nuisance Authority mentioned in the said Section, and any
reference in that Section to a nuisance in the Metropolis or to any
building, manufactory, or place in the Metropolis which is injurious
to health, shall include any nuisance within the meaning of this Act,
and any manufactory, building, or place which is dangerous to health.
Section 23.—Furnaces and steam vessels to consume their own smoke:—
(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—
(e) 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.
Section 2.—What nuisances may be abated summarily :—
(1) For the purposes of this Act,—
(a) Any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious or
dangerous to health;