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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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London (Public Health) Act, 1902, or in Section 184 (Confirmation of By-laws)
of the Public Health Act, 1875, applied by the said sections respectively, all
by-laws made by the Council or the Corporation (as the case may be) under
this section shall as regards any business carried on in any factory or workshop
to which the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, applies require confirmation as
if the Secretary of State were named in the said sections in addition to the
Local Government Board.
(6) Nothing in this Section, or in any by-law made thereunder, shall be
construed as imposing upon any person any obligation to alter any premises
which are at the passing of this Act used for the business of a vendor of fried
fish or of a fish curer, or any fittings or apparatus in any such premises, or
to place or provide in any such premises any new fittings or apparatus.
Provided that if at any time after the passing of this Act any alteration of
any such premises, or of any fittings or apparatus therein shall be effected, or
if any new fittings or apparatus shall be placed or provided therein such
alteration shall be carried out and such new fittings and apparatus shall be
placed and provided in conformity with the requirements of any such by-law
as aforesaid for the time being in force.
Enforcement of this Part of Act and By-laws.
10.— Subject to the provisions of this Act it shall be the duty of each
sanitary authority to enforce within their district the provisions of this part of
this Act and all by-laws made by the Council thereunder, and for that purpose
the sanitary authorities shall have all the rights and powers and be subject to
all the liabilities and obligations conferred or imposed upon them by Sections
101, 117, 118, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 133, and 135 of "The Public
Health (London) Act, 1891," and subject as aforesaid those Sections shall
apply and have effect in respect of this part of this Act as if they were
expressly re-enacted in and in terms made applicable to this part of this Act.
Potter to Local Government Board to Extend By-laws made by Council.
11. —The Local Government Board may on the application of the Sanitary
Authority of the Port of London by order extend to so much of the said Port
as is within the County any by-laws made by the Council under the Section of
this Act of which the marginal note is "Power to Council and Corporation to
make by-laws with respect to certain businesses."
Power to Sanitary Authorities, etc., to Enter.
12.—Any sanitary authority or any officer or person duly authorised by them
in that behalf shall have the right to enter at all reasonable times any house,
building, or premises in the district of such sanitary authority for the purpose
of examining whether there is any contravention of the provisions of this part
of this Act, or of any by-law made thereunder, or any non-compliance with the
requirements of any notice given thereunder respectively.
Power to Owner to Enter notwithstanding Provisions of Lease.
13.—For the purpose of complying with any of the provisions of this part
of this Act, or of any by-law made thereunder, or with the requirements of any
notice given under any such provision it shall be lawful for the owner of any house,
building, or premises not being the occupier thereof notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained in any lease, underlease, or agreement of, or relating