Sanitary laws of Scotland and principles of public health : being a manual for county and burgh councillors, legal officials, medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors and all interested in public health / by W.J. Brock.

Date:: 1905

Credit: Sanitary laws of Scotland and principles of public health : being a manual for county and burgh councillors, legal officials, medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors and all interested in public health / by W.J. Brock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$local authority, officers, or person or persons for immediate forcible entry into the premises ; and if no such occupier or person can be discovered, or if no person is found on the premises to give or refuse admission, the local authority or their officers may enter the premises without any order or warrant, and forcibly if need be. Provided that if no nuisance * be found to exist, the local authority shall restore the premises at their own expense. Any order made by a sheriff, magistrate, or justice, for the admission of the local authority or their officers or other persons under this section shall continue in force until the nuisance * has been removed, or the work for which the entry was necessary has been done. [155] Information of Nuisances to Local Authortty 19. Information of any nuisance * under this Act in the district of any local authority may be given to such local authority by any person, and it shall be the duty of every officer or such authority, and of any constable or officer of police of the county or burgh, in accordance with the regula- tions of the authority having control over him, to give that information, and it shall be the duty of the said authority to make the said regulations. The local authority shall give such directions to their officers as will secure the existence of the nuisance being immediately brought to the know- ledge of any person who may be required to remove it, and such officer shall do so by an intimation' as hereinafter provided. Notice Requiring Removal of Nuisance 20. (1) On the receipt of any information respecting the existence of a nuisance * hable to be dealt with summarily under this Act, the local authority shall, if satisfied of the existence of a nuisance,* serve a notice - on the author of the nuisance,^' or, if such author cannot be found, on the occupier or owner of the premises on which the nuisance * arises or continues, requiring him to remove the same \vithin the time specified in the notice, and to execute such works and do such things as may be necessary for that purpose, and if the * v. Note to General Nuisances, anU. 1 D. § 159, post. J, , J,. 2 Notice as distinct from intimation must be issued by the authority of tbo L.A., or by a committee of their number authorised to do so. As to service of such notice, v. § 159, post. . 3 In the case of a graveyard, under § 16 (11), notice is served on tlio collector of the churchyard or other dues; or on such person as the sheriff$