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
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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![following businesses, or any of tliem; that is to say, the business of blood boiler, bone boiler, manure manufacturer, soap boiler, tallow melter, knacker,^ tanner, tripe boiler, gut or tripe cleaner, skinner or hide factor, slaughterer of cattle or horses,' or any other business which the local authority may declare, by order- confirmed by the Board and pub- lished in the Edinburgh Gazette, to be an offensive business, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding iifty pounds in respect of the establishment thereof, and any person cariy- ing on the same after a conviction for the establishment thereof shall be hable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five pounds for every day during which he so carries on the same. [4] (2) The local authority shall give their sanction by order, but, at least fourteen days before making any such order, shall make public the application for it, by advei-tisement in one or more local newspapers, or by the posting of handbiUs in the locality, setting forth the time and place at which they will be willing to hear all persons objecting to the order, and they shall consider any objections made at that time and place, and shall grant or withhold their sanction as they think expedient, and where the local authority grants or withholds such sanction, any person aggrieved may appeal to the Board, whose decision shall be final, but, in the case of a district other than a burgh, the appeal to the Board shall only arise after the county council has given its deter- mination on the matter, and a local authority may appeal to the Board against the determination of the county council. [4] (3) The local authority may make bye-laws ^ for regulating the conduct of any businesses within the meaning of this section, and of section thirty-seven of this Act, which are for the time being lawfully carried on in their district, and the structure of the premises in which any such business is being carried on, in order to prevent or (diminish the noxious or injurious effect thereof, and the mode in which the said application is to be made. [4, 5] penalty^ imposed by such bye-law, empower a sheriff by summary order to deprive any person, either temporarily or pyermanently, of the right of carrying on any business to which such bye-law relates, as a punishment for breaking 1 D. i 3, as to definition. 2 o. I S'j (2), L.G. (Scot.) Act, 1894. 8 As to publication, confirmation, etc., d. §§ 183 to 187, 'post. For model bye-lawa .suggested by L.G.B., v. p. 44 to p. 6G in their Instruc- tions forma, etc. < For penalties, o. } 184, potl. addition to any pecuniary](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21973696_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
