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" under this section, the County Council shall, on written applica"
tion made within seven days after such determination is made
" known to the applicant, hear the applicant against such refusal."
Sec. 21, provides for a fine where this part of the Act is contravened
of a sum not exceeding fifty pounds, instead of as formerly
five pounds for a first offence.
Sec. 22, which consists of two sub-sections concerns Local
Authorities only. It enacts as follows:—
" The removal of house refuse and street refuse by a sanitary
" authority when collected or deposited by that authority shall be
" deemed to be a business carried on by that authority within the
" meaning of the last preceding section,* and a complaint or
" proceedings under that section in relation to any such business
" may be made or taken by the County Council in like manner as"
if the Council were a sanitary authority.
" Any premises used by a Sanitary Authority for the treatment
" or disposal of any street refuse or house refuse, as distinct from
"the removal thereof, which are a nuisance or injurious, or
" dangerous to health, shall be a nuisance liable to be dealt with
" summarily under this Act, and for the purpose of the application
" thereto of the provision of this Act relating to such nuisances,
" the County Council shall be deemed to be a Sanitary Authority."
Sees. 23 and 24, contain a few unimportant amendments relating
to " Smoke Consumption."
Sees. 25 and 26, enact new Law as follows:—
" Where, on the certificate of a Medical Officer of Health or
" Sanitary Inspector, it appears to any Sanitary Authority that
" the limewashing, cleansing, or purifying of any
Workshops " workshop (other than a bakehouse,) or of any
and " part thereof, is necessary for the health of the
Bakehouses. " persons employed therein, the Sanitary Authority
" shall serve notice in writing on the owner or
" occupier of the workshop to limewash, cleanse, or purify the
" workshop or part as the case requires, within the time specified
"in the notice; and, if the person on whom notice is so served
" fails to comply therewith, he shall be liable to a fine not
* Sec. 21 provides for the aition to be taken before a Justice to abate any
nuisance arising from offensive trade.