57 & 58 Vict. Sch. III.,

Pt. IV.

PART IV.

FEES PAYABLE TO COUNCIL.

On Dangerous Structures.

For general services

1. For preparation of notices forms for same
and postage

2. For service of notices (clerk's time)
3. For travelling per mile (one way)
4. For obtaining summonses and
(clerk's time)

orders

0 3 0

5. For cost of each summons or order
Where there are two or more adjoining or nearly contiguous
structures in the same ownership—

For Nos. 2 and 4 (above) each

The fees payable upon ten structures shall bɔ
the maximum fees.

020

6. For supervision of works including report
of officer in cases where the magistrate's
order is executed by the Council.
7. For travelling per mile (one way)
8. The cost of procuring local evidence to
satisfy the magistrate that the condition of
the structure is prejudicial to the property
or to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood
is to be considered separately in each case.

026 020

0 5 0 026

0 5 0

003

Where there are two or more adjoining or nearly contiguous structures in the same ownership—

For Nos. 1 4 or 6 (above) each

For Nos. 2 or 5 (above) each.

0 0 3

Regulations.

1. The fees specified in this Schedule in respect of works to a party-wall comprise the fees payable in respect of both sides of the wall.

2. No fee shall be charged in respect of the fixing of a chimney pot.

3. No fee shall be charged in respect of the repairing of a chimney top unless the top has been pulled down to a greater extent than twelve inches.

4. No fee shall be charged in respect of the repairing of a parapet unless the parapet shall have been pulled down to a greater extent than twelve inches.

5. In calculating the area of every new building for the purposes of this Schedule the area of all out buildings not exceeding thirty feet in area whether attached or not shall be included provided such outbuildings be erected at the same time as the main building.

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| Building Acts
Amendment Act
1878.

Act 1893.

APPENDIX I.

THE

GENERAL PAVING (METROPOLIS) ACT, 1817 (').

57 GEO. III., c. 29.

An Act for better paring, improving, and regulating the streets of the Metropolis, and removing and preventing nuisances and obstructions.

Entrances to cellars and coal holes, bars over

SECT. 70. Be it further enacted that if at any time or times hereafter the owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, of any house, building, or premises in any parochial or other district within the jurisdiction of this Act, having areas, &c., to any iron or wooden rails or bars over the areas or be covered openings to any kitchens or cellars, or other part or and secured. parts of his or their house, building, or premises, beneath the surface of the foot pavements of any streets or public places in any such parochial or other district, or having any doorway or entrance into the basement or cellar storey thereof, shall not either keep the same, or the walls of such kitchens or cellars, in sufficient and good repair, or safely and securely guard and constantly keep the same securely guarded by a rail or rails, or cover the same over with a strong flap or trap door, according to the nature of the case, and to the satisfaction of the commissioners or trustees, or other persons having the control of the pavements in such parochial or other district, or of the surveyor or surveyors of the pavements in any such parochial or other district for the time being, or of any inspectors or other officers or persons appointed by the said commissioners, trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, or some of them, and so as to prevent danger to persons passing and repassing: or if such occupier or occupiers do and shall leave open, Owner or oc ! This Act is commonly called Michael Angelo Taylor's Act. So much cupier leavof it as is not inconsistent with the Metropolis Management Acts is ex- ing the same tended to the metropolis by sect. 73 of the Act of 1862, post, p. 367.

open, &c.

57 Geo. III. c. 29. s. 70.

Or not repair ing, &c.

Penalty.

or not sufficiently and substantially cover and keep covered and secured to such satisfaction as aforesaid, any coal or other hole, funnel, trap door, or cellar flap, belonging to, or connected with his, her, or their respective houses, buildings, or premises (save and Exemption. except only during such reasonable time as any coals, wood, casks, or other things shall be putting down or taking out of any such vault or basement, storey, or during such reasonable time as the flap, trap door, or covering thereof shall be altering, repairing, or amending); or if such owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, shall not repair, and from time to time keep in good and substantial repair, to the satisfaction of the said commissioners, or trustees, or other persons, or of the said surveyor or surveyors, inspectors, or other persons appointed by the said commissioners, or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, all and every, or any such iron or wooden rails, guard rails, flaps, trap doors, and other covering; then, and in every such case, the person or persons neglecting so to do, shall for every or any such offence, forfeit and pay any sum, not being less than forty shillings, nor exceeding five pounds, to be recovered in such and the same manner in which other penalties are hereafter directed to be recovered by virtue of this Act; and that in any or either of such cases of neglect, it shall and may be also lawful to, and for any two or more of the said commissioners, or trustees, or other persons as aforesaid, and without the authority of any public or general meeting, or for their surveyor or holes, &c. to surveyors of the pavements for the time being, or for their inspectors, or for any other person, by such commissioners, or trustees, or other persons appointed as aforesaid, to cause all and every such doorways, entrances, holes, and funnels to be well and securely covered over and guarded, and all iron or wooden rails, or guard rails, flaps, trap doors, or coverings, to be well and substantially repaired or renewed by such person or persons as they shall think proper to employ, and with such materials and in such manner as they may, or he may direct; and that all the costs, charges, and expenses attending the same be ascertained and certified by the surveyor or surveyors of the pavements in any such parochial or other district, and shall be borne and paid by the owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, or other person or persons so neglecting to repair and make good the same in manner aforesaid;

Commis

sioners, &c. may cause such coal

be secured.

Charges to be paid by the

owner or

occupier.