PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1818. Entire sum remaining due may be recovered in case of any default. False evidence punishable as perjury. Penaltyfor obstructing officers, defacing boards, &c.; board may, if they think fit, allow such owner time for repayment, and receive the same by such annual instalments, not being less than one thirtieth part of the entire sum, together with interest at the rate of five pounds in the hundred upon the sum from time to time remaining unpaid, as they, under the circumstances of each case, may consider to be just; but although time for repayment be allowed as last aforesaid, the sum due, or so much thereof as may be unpaid, shall from time to time, in case of default in payment at the times respectively appointed for payment, be recoverable in like manner in all respects as the entire sum might have been recovered if time for repayment had not been allowed (b). CXLVII. And be it enacted, that every person who upon any examination on oath under the provisions of this Act shall wilfully and corruptly give false evidence shall be liable to the penalties inflicted upon persons guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury. CXLVIII. And be it enacted, that whosoever Wilfully obstructs any superintending inspector, or any member of the local board of health, or any officer or person duly employed in the execution of this Act,— (b) See ante, p. 82, note (ƒ). c. 63. Or destroys, pulls down, injures, or defaces any 11 & 12 VICT. board upon which any bye law, notice, or other matter is inscribed, shall (if the same were put up by authority of the local or general Be liable for every such offence to a penalty not And piers pre If the occupier of any premises prevent the owner upon occuthereof from obeying or carrying into effect the venting provisions of this Act,— Any justice to whom application is made in this behalf shall, by order in writing (which may be ac cording to the form contained in the schedule (F.) to this Act annexed (c), or to the like effect), require such occupier to permit the execution of the works required to be executed, provided that the same appear to such justice to be such as are necessary for the purpose of obeying or carrying into effect the provisions of this Act; and if within a reasonable time after the making of such order the occupier against whom it is made refuse to comply therewith, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day afterwards during the continuance of such refusal; And execution of works. to disclose If the occupier of any premises, when requested Occupiers by or on behalf of the local board of health to owner's state the name of the owner of the premises (c) See post, p. 207. name. PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1848. Consents of general End local board to be in writing. Service of notices, &c. notices, upon local board. occupied by him, shall refuse or wilfully omit to disclose or wilfully mis-state the same,— Any justice may, on oath made before him of such request and refusal, omission, or mis-statement, summon the party to appear before him or some other justice at a time and place to be appointed in such summons, and if after being so summoned he neglect or refuse to attend at the time and place so appointed, or if he do not show good cause for such refusal, or if such wilful omission or mis-statement be proved, the justice before whom the party is so summoned may impose upon the offender a penalty not exceeding five pounds. CXLIX. And be it enacted, that whenever the consent, sanction, or approval or authority of the general board of health is required by the provisions of this Act, the same shall be in writing under their seal and the hands of two or more members thereof; And whenever the consent, sanction, approval, or authority of the local board of health is so required the same shall (in the case of a noncorporate district) be in writing under their seal and the hands of five or more of them, or (in case of a corporate district) under their common seal. CL. And be it enacted, that any summons, notice, writ, or proceeding of any kind whatsoever to be served upon the local board of health— c 63. May be so served by being left at or sent through 11 & 12 VICT. any post office, directed to the local board of health at their office, or by being delivered there to the clerk personally; of owners And in all cases in which any notice is by this Description Act required to be given to the owner or occupier of and occuany premises, It shall be sufficient to address the notice to them by the description of the "owner" or осси- piers in And the notice shall be served upon them or one Service upon owners and of them, as the case may require, either person- occupiers. by post to of district. Provided always, in the case of notices to the Transmission owner, that, although his place of abode be owners out known to the local board of health, yet, if it be not within the limits of their district, it shall PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1848. be sufficient for them to transmit any notice, directed to him by name, through the post. Exemptions CLI. And be it enacted, that from stamp duty, on advertisements; on documents executed by general or local board, &c.; on appointments. Exemption from window No advertisement inserted or caused to be inserted by the general or local board of health in the London Gazette or any paper or publication under this Act, or for the purpose of carrying the same into effect, Nor any deed, award, submission, instrument, contract, agreement, or writing made or executed by the said general or local board, their officers or servants, under or for the purposes of this Act, Nor any appointment by the general or local board of any officer or person under this Act,Shall be chargeable with any stamp duty what ever: And (b) in case any vault, cellar, or underground duty in cer- roomtain cases. Of any house containing, at the time of the pass ing of this Act, seven windows or lights only,Shall have been let or occupied separately as a dwelling before the passing of this Act, without any external window, or such an external window as is required by the provisions of this Act (b) with respect (b) This exemption is with reference to the provisions of s. 68. See the Acts 48 Geo. 3, c. 55 (Schedule A.), and 6 Geo. 4, c. 7, s. 1. |