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Cleansing of cellars, etc.
2. The Council may from time to time make such byelaws
as they think fit for the cleansing of unoccupied cellars
and roofs of outhouses by owners. (Glasgow).
Courts to be flagged.
3. (1) The owner or owners of any exising court or yard
or of any passage used in common by two or more occupiers
(not being a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large) or
of any part of such court, yard or passage, shall flag, asphalt,
concrete or pave such court, yard or passage or any part thereof
and make a drain through or along the same or such part
thereof as the Council require, and keep such flagging,
asphalting, concreting or paving and drain in good repair.
(2) If such owner or owners shall for one month after
notice in writing from the Council fail in any respect to comply
with the provisions of the foregoing sub-section, he or they shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to a daily
penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and the Council may
themselves, if they think fit, do the work and recover the expense
incurred by them in that behalf from such owner or owners.
(Southampton).
Occupier to furnish name and address of owner or to be responsible
for repairs.
4. (1) The occupier or occupiers of any premises must
disclose to the Medical Officer of Health or Inspector of
Nuisances on written or verbal application by either of the said
Officers, the name and address of the owner or owners of the
said premises. In the event of the occupier or occupiers not
supplying or not being able to supply this information within a
period of fourteen days from the date of a written request from
the Medical Officer of Health or the Inspector of Nuisances, it
is hereby enacted that for the purposes of this Act and the
Public Health Acts, a notice serviceable upon the owner may
be served upon the occupier or occupiers, who for the purposes
of the said notice shall be deemed to be the owner or owners of
the premises.