Cap. 59. under his hand require such person to admit the officer 53 & 54 Vict., into the premises, and if it be found that any offence under this section has been or is being committed in respect of the premises, the order shall continue in force until the offence shall have ceased or the work necessary to prevent the recurrence thereof shall have been executed. (3.) A person shall not be liable to a penalty for an offence against this section until the local authority have given him notice of the provisions of this section, nor for an offence committed before the expiraton of seven days from the service of such notice, provided that the local authority shall not be required to give the same person notice more than once. *** &c. 22.-(1.) Every building, used as a workshop or manu- Sanitary confactory, or where persons are employed or intended to be veniences for employed in any trade or business, whether erected before manufactories, or after the adoption of this part of this Act in any district, shall be provided with sufficient and suitable accommodation in the way of sanitary conveniences, having regard to the number of persons employed in or in attendance at such building, and also where persons of both sexes are employed, or intended to be employed, or in attendance, with proper separate accommodation for persons of each sex. (2.) Where it appears to an urban authority on the report of their surveyor that the provisions of this section are not complied with in the case of any building, the urban authority may, if they think fit, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of any such building to make such alterations and additions therein as may be required to give such sufficient, suitable, and proper accommodation as aforesaid. (3.) Any person who neglects or refuses to comply with any such notice shall be liable for each default to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, and to a daily penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 50. The following provisions of this part of this Act shall be applicable in rural sanitary districts, namely, Section seventeen, relating to the turning of chemical Application of part of Act in rural districts. *** Short title of Power to water and gas companies to supply water and gas to lodging houses. Adoption of Part III. of Act by town commissioners of small towns in Ireland. 53 & 54 Vict., Cap. 70. An Act to consolidate and [Introductory words.] 1. This Act may be cited as the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. *** PART III.-WORKING CLASS LODGING HOUSES. [54. Adoption of this part of Act.] [55. Provisions in case of adoption by rural sanitary authority.] *** 69. Any commissioners of waterworks, trustees of waterworks, water companies, gas companies, and other corporations, bodies, and persons having the management of any waterworks, reservoirs, wells, springs, or streams of water, and gasworks respectively, may, in their discretion, grant and furnish supplies of water or gas for lodging houses provided under this part of this Act, either without charge or on such other favourable terms as they think fit. *** PART VI. APPLICATION OF ACT TO IRELAND. 99.-(1.) In a town not being an urban sanitary district Part III. of this Act may be adopted by any town commissioners for the time being existing for the paving, lighting, or cleansing of that town under any Public Act of Parliament or any charter, and the Act when adopted shall be carried into execution by such town commissioners, and for that purpose they shall be deemed to be a local authority within the meaning of the said part. [Sub-sections (2.)-(5.) Proceedings for adoption of Act.] *** 54 & 55 Vict., Cap. 52. PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) [54 & 55 Vict., Cap. 52. An Act to amend the Public Health (Scotland) Acts. [5th August 1891.] c. 50. Whereas by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 53 & 54 Vict. 1889, provision is made by sections seventeen and seventyseven for dividing every county into districts for the purposes of the administration of the laws relating to public health, and by sections seventeen and seventy-eight for the constitution of a district committee for each district, which shall be the local authority therein under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and any amending Act, in this Act referred to as the Public Health (Scotland) Acts (a): And whereas such districts comprise several parishes, and it has been found to be expedient, in order to facilitate the administration of the last-mentioned Acts with respect to the supply of water to such districts or parts thereof, that the said Acts should be amended as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 30 & 31 Vict. 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Short title and Public Health (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1891, and the construction. Public Health (Scotland) Acts and this Act shall be read and construed together as one Act. 2. This Act shall not take effect within any district Commencein any county until after the county council shall, on the ment of Act. application of the district committee, have passed a resolution approving of its taking effect within such district, such resolution having been passed, and such application having been sanctioned at meetings called with special notice of the resolution to be submitted thereat. (a) Public Health (Scotland) Acts, 1867, 1871, 1875, 1882, and 1890, repealed by Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, s. 196, p. 463. For substituted reference to latter Act, see s. 193 thereof, pp. 462, 463. 54 & 55 Vict., Cap. 52. Incorporation 10 & 11 Vict. C. 17. 26 & 27 Vict. c. 33. Division of assessment for water supply into (1) domes tic water rate and (2) public water rate. An application of a district committee or a resolution of a county council shall not have effect for the purposes of this section unless approved of by an absolute majority of the whole members of the district committee or county council, as the case may be. 3. The following Acts, and parts of Acts, so far as the same respectively are applicable for the purposes and are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867 (a), are hereby incorporated with that Act: The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, except the provisions with respect to the amount of profit to be received by the undertakers when the waterworks are carried on for their benefit, and except the words in section forty-four thereof, "with the con"sent in writing of the owner or reputed owner "of any such house or of the agent of such (( owner "; The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863; The provisions of the Railway Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, with respect to the temporary occupation of lands near the railway during the construction thereof, but such last-mentioned provisions shall apply only in the case of any reservoir, filter, or distributing tank which the local authority may be authorised to construct, and the works immediately connected therewith; and for the purposes of this Act those provisions shall be read as if such reservoir, filter, or tank, and works were therein mentioned, instead of "the railway," and the boundaries of such reservoir, filter, or tank, and works, instead of "the centre of the "railway;" and the prescribed limits shall be two hundred yards from such boundaries. 4. Upon this Act taking effect the expense incurred or to be incurred by the district committee as local authority under the provisions of the Public Health (Scotland) Acts during the year ensuing for water supply (including the sums necessary for payment of interest on and repayment of instalments of any money borrowed for providing such supply) shall be paid out of the assessments in this section authorised; that is to say: --- (1.) It shall be lawful for the county council, and they are hereby authorised and required, once in every year to impose and levy an assessment (to be called the domestic water rate) upon all lands and heritages within the district (a) See note (a), p. 381. which shall have been supplied with water by the district committee as local authority at such rate in the pound as shall be sufficient, when supplemented by the public water rate, if any, to defray the expense herein-before mentioned; (2.) It shall be lawful for the county council, and they are hereby authorised, once in every year to impose and levy an assessment (to be called the public water rate) if they shall think fit upon all lands and heritages within the district, but such rate if imposed shall not exceed threepence in the pound, and may be such less amount as the county council may from time to time determine. (3.) The assessments or rates in this section mentioned shall not in the aggregate exceed the rates authorised by the Public Health (Scotland) Acts (a), and shall be imposed and levied and be payable, and may be recovered in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as assessments under the provisions of the Public Health (Scotland) Acts (a) Provided always that (a.) Where a special water supply district has been formed in the manner provided in the said Acts, and a sufficient supply of water has been obtained and is maintained therein under the authority of the said Acts, the lands and heritages situated within such special water supply district shall not be liable to assessment for the expense of supplying water to other parts of the district: (b.) The local authority shall not be obliged to furnish a supply of water to any person for any less sum than five shillings in any one year: (c.) No person shall be entitled to demand such supply of water or to require the local authority to lay down communication pipes, unless some pipe of the local authority shall have been laid within one hundred feet of the house or other premises in respect of which such supply or communication pipes are demanded, or unless the local authority shall become bound by virtue of a requisition and agreement made and executed in the manner and to the extent required by the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, to cause pipes to be laid down within the said distance of one hundred feet of such house or other preinises. 54 & 55 Vict., Cap. 52. [Minimum annual sum entitling to supply of water.] 5. The county council as the local authority may, in Power to addition to the powers conferred by section eighty-nine borrow on (six) of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867 (a), borrow security of money for the purposes therein set forth on the security of (a) See note (a), p. 381. assessments. |