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Section 15. Any person causing a drain, water-closet, Ac.,
or an ashpit to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous
to health by wilfully destroying or damaging the same,
or anv water-supply, or the fittings connected therewith,
to be liable to a tine of £5.
Section 48. (1) The absence, in respect of any premises,
of water-fittings, to be deemed a nuisance, liable tc
be dealt with summarily; and if in respect of a dwellinghouse,
it is to be deemed unfit for human habitation.
(2) A house which, after the commencement
of the Act is newly erected, or is pulled down to of
below the ground floor and rebuilt, is not to be 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.
(3) 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, he may apply to a Petty Sessional Court, and
the Court may make an order authorizing the occupation
of the house ; but unless such order is mad i, an
owner who occupies, or permits to be occupied, the
house as a dwelling-house without such certificate,
is to be liable to a fine of £10 and 20s. per day.
Section 62. (1) Any persou easting rubbish infected
by a dangerous aEd infectious disease, without previous
disinfection, into an ash-pit, to be liable to a fine of £5
and 40s. per day.
Section 63. Any person who knowingly lets for hire a
house, or part of a house, in which any person has been
suffering from a dangerous infectious disease without
having the same, and all articles therein liable to retain
infection, disinfected, to be liable to a Fine of £20.
Section 64. Any person letting for hire, or showing for the
purpose of letting, any house or part of a house, and
making false statements as to infectious disease in
regard to same, to be liable to a fine of £20, or one
month's imprisonment.
Fection 65. Any person ceasing to occupy a house, or
part of a house, in which a person has, within six
weeks previously, been suffering from dangerous
infectious disease, and who fails to have same disinfected,
or who, in the event of any negotiations for
letting, &c., fails to give notice, or who makes false
statements regarding same, to be liable to a fine of £10.
Section 68. Any person who knows himself to be suffering
from a dangerous infectious disease, exposing himself,