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Section 23.—With regard to the abolition of fixed ashpits where portable
ashpits are provided.
Section 24.—Power of entry with regard to houses containing filthy,
dangerous, and unwholesome articles, and also those infested with vermin.
This is an important section, and sub-section 2 sets out as follows :—
The sanitary authority of any sanitary district shall have a right to
enter at all reasonable times any house, building or premises, or part
thereof in that district, for the purpose of examining whether there is any
contravention of the provisions of this part of this Act or any noncompliance
with the requirements of any notice given thereunder
respectively.
Section 25.—With reference to the enforcement of this part of the Act and
the provisions relating thereto.
Section 26.—Definitions of the terms "sanitary authority," "sanitary
district," " house," "owner," "rack rent," " ashpit," " sanitary convenience."
By this Section it is enacted that—
The expression " sanitary authority " means the Corporation in respect
of the City, and as port sanitary authority in respect of so
much of the Port of London as is established for the purposes of
the laws relating to the Customs of the United Kingdom as is within
the County, and as respects any metropolitan borough (except as
to any portion thereof which may be within the said portion of the
Port of London), the council of such borough.
The expression "sanitary district" means the City or so much of the
Port of London as is within the County or any Metropolitan
Borough (except as to any portion thereof which may be within the
said portion of the Port of London).
The expression "house" includes schools and other buildings in which
persons are employed and the curtilage of a house and any building
or house wholly or partly erected under statutory authority, but shall
not include any premises being a factory, workshop or laundry, to
which the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, applies, or any building
belonging to any dock company situate within the dock premises and
not used wholly or in part as a dwelling-house or stable.
The expression " ashpit" means any ashpit, dustbin, ashtub, or other
receptacle for the deposit of ashes or refuse matter.
The expression "sanitary convenience" includes any urinal, water-closet,
earth-closet or privy, and any similar convenience.