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
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Licence: In copyright

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 think it desirable (but not otherwise) specify- insc any works to be executed. ^2) The local authority may also by the same or another notice served on such occupier, owner, or person, require him to do what is necessary for preventing the recurrence of the nuisance,* and, if they think it desirable, may specify any works to be executed for that purpose, and may serve that notice, not^vithstanding that the nuisance may for the time have been removed, if the local authority consider that it is likely to recur on the same premises. (3) Provided that— (a) where the nuisance arises from any want or defect of a structural character, or where the premises are unoccu- pied, the notice shall be served on the owner ; ^ (6) where tlie person causing the nuisance cannot be found, and it is clear that the nuisance does not arise or continue by the act or default or sufferance of the occupier or owner of the premises, the local authority may themselves remove the same, and may do what is necessary to prevent the recurrence thereof. [160] On Non-compliance with Notice, Local Authority to Proceed Summarily 21. If the person on whom a notice to remove a nuisance has been served as aforesaid makes default in complying with any of the requisitions thereof within the time specified, and if the nuisance, although removed since the service of the notice, is, in the opinion of the local authority, lilcely to recm: on the same premises, the local authority shall proceed by summary petition as hereinafter provided.^ Proceeding's by Local Authority when Nuisances are ascertained to exist 22. In any case where the existence of a nuisance is ascertained to their satisfaction by the local authority, or where the nuisance in the opinion of the local authority did exist, and, although the same may have been since removed or discontinued, is in their opinion likely to recur or to be repyeated, they may apply to the sheriff or to any magistrate or justice, by summary petition in manner hereinafter directed,-' and if it appear to his satisfaction that the nuisance exists, or, if removed or discontinued, that it is likely to recur or to be repeated, he shall decern for the removal or * u. Kote to General Nuisances, onte. ii v. § 150, jmsj. 2 ». §1 22 and 154, yost. a ^. 154-157, pos<. B