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SANITARY CONVENIENCES.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
44.—Power to Sanitary Authority to provide public conveniences.— (1) Every
sanitary authority may provide and maintain public lavatories and ash-pits,
and public sanitary conveniences other than privies, in situations where they
deem the same to be required, and may supply such lavatories and sanitary
conveniences with water, and may defray the expense of providing such
lavatories, ash-pits, and sanitary conveniences, and of any damage occasioned
to any person by the erection or construction thereof, and the expense of
keeping the same in good order, as if they were expenses of sewerage.
(2) For the purpose of such provision the subsoil of any road, exclusive of
the footway adjoining any building or the curtilage of a building, shall be
vested in the Sanitary Authority.
45.—Regulations as to public sanitary conveniences.—(1) Where a Sanitary
Authority provide and maintain eny public lavatories, ash-pits, or sanitary
conveniences such Authority may—
(a) Make regulations with respect to the management thereof, and bylaws
as to the decent conduct of persons using the same; and
(b) Let the same for any term not exceeding three years at such rent and
subject to such conditions as they may think fit; and
(c) Charge such fees for the use of any lavatories or water-closets provided
by them as they may think proper.
(2) No public lavatory, ash-pit, or sanitary convenience shall be erected in
or accessible from any street without the consent in writing of the Sanitary
Authority, who may give their consent upon such terms as to the use thereof
or the removal thereof at any time, if required by the Sanitary Authority, as
they may think fit.
(3) If any person erects a lavatory, ash-pit, or sanitary convenience in
contravention of this Section, and after notice to that effect served by the
Sanitary Authority does not remove the same, he shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding five' pounds, and to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings for
every day during which the offence continues after a conviction for the
offence.
(4) Nothing in this Section shall extend to any lavatory or sanitary
convenience now or hereafter erected by any Railway Company within their
railway station, yard, or the approaches thereto.
Note.—Sub-sections 3 and 4 of this Section control also the erection of new public
sanitary conveniences by private owners.
The London County Council General Powers Act, 1904.
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