Sanitary Law: a Digest of the Sanitary Acts of England and Scotland, 968. köideLivingstone, 1883 - 240 pages |
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Sanitary Law: A Digest of the Sanitary Acts of England and Scotland Henry Aubrey Husband No preview available - 2016 |
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Act of Parliament alter amending appeal apply appointed arbitration assessment authorised Board borough buildings burgh by-laws cellar certificate charge City of London cleansing Commissioners common lodging-house common seal confirmed consent construction contract contributory place cost court of summary deemed default disease disinfection district drain duties enactment exceeding 20 execution expenses give imposed Improvement Commissioners incurred infected persons injurious to health inspection inspector justices keeper land law with regard liable local government district matter Medical Officer Metropolis muriatic acid necessary notice nuisance offence owner or occupier paid parish penalty not exceeding Police pollution powers premises prevent private improvement privy proceedings provisional order PUBLIC HEALTH SCOTLAND purchase purposes Quarter Sessions recover refuse regulations removal repealed respect Sanitary Authority sewage sewers sheriff ship slaughter-houses street summary jurisdiction supply of water supply water thereof tion unless vaccination water supply waterworks whole Act
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Page 209 - For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family...
Page 19 - drain" shall mean and include any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom, with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : The word " sewer" shall mean and include sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 144 - ... any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid; and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed as if the repealing Act or Regulation had not been passed.
Page 68 - While suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder wilfully exposes himself without proper precautions against spreading the said disorder in any street public place shop inn or public conveyance, or enters any public conveyance without previously notifying to the owner conductor or driver thereof that he is so suffering; or (2.) Being in charge of any person so suffering, so exposes such sufferer...
Page 154 - In determining whether an offence has been committed under section six of the said Act by selling, to the prejudice of the purchaser spirits not adulterated otherwise than by the admixture of water, it shall be a good defence to prove that such admixture has not reduced the spirit more than twenty-five degrees under proof for brandy, whisky, or rum, or thirty-five degrees under proof for gin.
Page 69 - Gives, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes, without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection from any such disorder, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds; and a person who, while suffering from any such disorder, enters any public conveyance without previously notifying to the owner or driver that he is so suffering, shall in addition be ordered by the Court to pay such owner and driver the amount of any loss and expense...
Page 193 - He shall enter from day to day, in a book to be provided by the sanitary authority, particulars of his inspections and of the action taken by him in the execution of his duties. He shall also keep a book or books, to be provided by the sanitary authority, so arranged as to form, as far as possible, a continuous record of the sanitary condition of each of the premises in respect of which any action has been taken under the sanitary Acts, and shall keep any other systematic records that the sanitary...
Page 191 - District for which he is appointed : — (1) He shall perform, either under the special directions of the Sanitary Authority, or (so far as authorised by the Sanitary Authority) under the directions of the Medical Officer of Health, or in cases where no such directions are required, without such directions, all the duties specially imposed upon an Inspector of Nuisances by The Public Health Act, 1875, or by the Orders of the Local Government Board, so far as the same apply to his office.
Page 199 - Any fireplace or furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill, factory, dyehouse, brewery, bakehouse, or gaswork, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever; and Any chimney (not being the chimney of a private dwelling-house) sending forth black smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance...
Page 86 - Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement...