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" Where a person has in his possession any article which is
" unsound, or unwholesome, or unfit for the food of man, he may,
" by written notice to the Sanitary Authority, specifying such
" article, and containing a sufficient identification of it, request its
" removal, and the Sanitary Authority shall cause it to be
" removed as if it were trade refuse."
Sec. 48 : "A house which after the commencement of this Act
" is newly erefted, or is pulled down to or below
Provisions as "the ground floor and rebuilt, shall not be
to Water. " occupied as a dwelling house until the Sanitary
" Authority have certified that it has a proper
" and sufficient supply of water, either from a Water Company
" or by some other means. If the Sanitary Authority refuse such
"certificate, or fail to give it within one month after written
" request for the same from the owner of the house, the owner
" of the house may apply to a Petty Sessional Court, and that
" Court, after hearing or giving the Sanitary Authority an
" opportunity to be heard, may, if they think the certificate ought
" to have been granted, make an order authorising the occupation
" of the house; but, unless such order is made, an owner who
" occupies, or permits to be occupied, the house as a dwelling"
house without such certificate, shall be liable to a fine not
" exceeding ten pounds, and to a fine not exceeding twenty
"shillings for every day during which it is so occupied, until a
" proper and sufficient supply of water is provided; but the
"imposition of such a fine shall be without prejudice to any
" proceedings for obtaining a closing order."
Sec. 49 now requires Water Companies to do legally that which
they always did, viz.: where they cut off the water supply from
any house to notify the same within twenty-four hours to the
Sanitary Authority. A breach of this clause is punishable by a
fine of ten pounds.
Sec. 50 enacts that: " Every Sanitary Authority shall make
" bye-laws for securing the cleanliness and freedom from pollution
" of tanks, cisterns, and other receptacles used for storing of water
" used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic
" purposes, or for manufacturing drink for the use of man."
Sec. 54 is amended by the addition of the words " or for manu"
facturing drink for the use of man " and " or is likely to be so