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such notice to cleanse such house or the portion thereof specified in the notice,
and if so required in the notice to remove the wall paper from the walls of
such house or the part thereof specified in the notice, and to take such other
steps for the purpose of destroying and removing vermin as the case may
require.
(2) If the person to whom such notice is given fails to comply therewith
within the time therein specified he shall be liable on summary com iction to a
fine not exceeding, ten shillings for every day during which he makes default
in complying with the requirements of such notice, and the Sanitary Authority
may, if they think fit, at any time after the expiration of the period specified
in the notice, themselves do any work required by the notice to be done, and
all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Sanitary Authority in so
doing shall (subject as hereinafter provided) be recoverable summarily as a
civil debt from the person making the default.
(3) Upon any proceedings under this section the Court may inquire as to
whether any requirement contained in any notice given or any work done by
the Sanitary Authority was reasonable, and as to whether any costs and
expenses incurred by the Sanitary Authority in doing such work or any part
thereof ought to be borne wholly or in part by the person to whom the notice
was given, and the Court may make such Order concerning such costs and
expenses or their apportionment as appears to the Court to be just and equitable
under the circumstances of the case.
21. Section 59 of "The Public Health (London) Act, 1891," shall, for the
purposes of the two last preceding sections of this Act, extend and be applicable
to the provision of means for cleansing, purifying and destroying filthy,
dangerous or unwholesome articles, and for the removal thereof, and for the
cleansing of houses infested with vermin, as if the said Section 59 were
re-enacted herein and in terms made applicable thereto.
22. If any sanitary convenience now or hereafter erected in or accessible
from any street in any Sanitary District shall be so placed or constructed as to
be a nuisance or offensive to public decency the Sanitary Authority of that
district, by notice in writing, may require the owner to remove such convenience
or otherwise to reconstruct the same in such a manner and with such
materials as may be required to abate the nuisance and remove the offence
against public decency. Any owner who fails within a reasonable time to
comply with a notice under this Section shall be liable on summary conviction
to a fine of five pounds, and to a further fine not exceeding twenty shillings
for every day during which he makes default in complying with the requirements
of such notice after each conviction.
23. Where any person shall have provided in connection with any building
in any Sanitary District a movable ashpit conforming with the requirements of
any by-law or order made under any statutory power or authority in that
behalf it shall be lawful for the Sanitary Authority of that district, by notice
in writing, to require the owner of such building to remove or fill up any
fixed ashpit in or about such building, and restore to a good and sanitary
condition the site of such ashpit within a reasonable period to be prescribed in
such notice, and if such owner fails to comply therewith within the period so
prescribed, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding