The Public Health Act, 1875: And the Law Relating to Public Health, Local Government, and Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities : with Introduction, Table of Statutes, Table of Reference to the Repealed Statutes, Table of Cases, Appendices of Statutes, and Index

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PART I
1
Description of urban districts and urban authorities
6
Powers and duties of rural authorities
13
Use of sewers by owners and occupiers without district
22
Contribution to works under agreement for supply or distribution
30
Power of local authority to enforce provision of privy accommodation
36
Offensive Ditches and Collections of Matter
42
Removal of filth on certificate of inspector of nuisances
49
General powers for supplying district with water
51
Powers of water company for supplying water to local authority
58
Power to order reports from keepers of houses receiving vagrants
76
Limewashing of houses
82
Conviction for third offence to disqualify persons from keeping
88
Order of prohibition in case of house unfit for human habitation
97
PREVENTION OF EPIDEMIC DISEASES
101
Penalty for disobedience of order
103
Local Government Board may combine local authorities
107
Power to compel paving c of private streets
125
Powers of urban authority for lighting their district
137
Power for sale of undertaking of gas company to urban authority
139
PUBLIC PLEASURE GROUNDS
140
Urban authority may provide public clocks
142
Incorporation of provisions of 10 11 Vict c 14 as to markets
143
Vesting of streets c in urban authority
149
Power to provide slaughterhouses
150
Notice to be affixed on slaughterhouses
152
Power to regulate line of buildings
155
Urban authority may make byelaws for licensing horses boats c
159
PART V
161
PURCHASE OF LANDS 175 Power to purchase lands
165
Power to let lands
167
Regulations as to arbitration
168
Claims under twenty pounds may be referred to court of summary jurisdiction
172
Power to impose penalties on breach of byelaws
174
Evidence of byelaws
175
OFFICERS AND CONDUCT OF BUSINESS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES Officers of Local Authorities 189 Appointment of officers of urban authori...
176
Appointment of officers of rural authority
178
Mode of Conducting Business
182
Making general district rate
188
Incorporation of certain provisions of 10 11 Vict c 34
195
Power to make private improvement rates
213
Evidence of rates
219
EXPENSES OF RURAL AUTHORITY Clause Page 229 Expenses of rural authority
220
Mode of raising contributions in rural district
221
Remedy for nonpayment by overseers of amount required by precept of rural authority
223
As to private improvement expenses
224
Power to reduce or remit rates
225
Power to borrow on credit of sewage land and plant
226
Register of mortgages
227
Receiver may be appointed in certain cases
228
Rentcharges to be registered
229
Borrowing powers of joint boards and certain other authorities
232
Audit where urban authority are not a town council
233
Audit of accounts of rural authority
238
Taxation of bill of solicitor or attorney
239
PART VII
241
General provisions as to summary proceedings
242
Application of penalties
243
Proceedings in certain cases against nuisances
244
Recovery of expenses by local authority from owners
246
Justices may act though members of local authority or liable to contribute
247
Name of local authority need not be proved
248
False evidence punishable as perjury
249
Protection of local authority and their officers from personal liability
252
Service of notices
253
Appeal to quarter sessions
254
Quota of rates to be paid by the universities
256
PART VIII
257
Local Government Board may by provisional order constitute local government district
258
Objection to resolution
260
Appeal to Local Government Board in case of alleged invalidity of vote
261
Power of rural authority to form special drainage districts
262
Power to settle disputes as to boundaries of districts
263
Contents of provisional order forming united district
264
Power to execute works in adjoining districts and to combine for execution of works
265
PORT SANITARY AUTHORITY 287 Constitution of port sanitary authority
266
Jurisdiction of port sanitary authority
267
Expenses of port sanitary authority
268
Proceedings for raising a sum for payment of debt within district of a defaulting authority
269
PART IX
270
Compensation in certain cases to officers
287
Provision where Improvement Act district or local government district becomes a borough
288
Substitution in other Acts of provisions of this Act for provisions of repealed Acts
289
Temporary Provisions 318 As to clerk and treasurer of certain authorities
290
As to audit of certain accounts
291
PART XI
292
Saving for works and property of certain authorities and for navi gation and water rights c
293
Reference to arbitration in case of works not within preceding section
294
Clause Page
295
SCHEDULES
302
Returning officer
311
Declaration to be made by members
317
125
319
Rules as to resolutions of owners and ratepayers
326
F Order of justice for admission of officer of local authority
332
N Votingpaper at election of local board
339
Interpretation of terms
346
Acts of commissioners to be valid notwithstanding informalities
352
127
359
Public bathing
360
Reenacted provisions 343
363
Interpretation of terms
369
Penalty for refusing information
375
Consumption of smoke
381
Byelaws
391
Vict c 24 1866
392
THE STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES ACT 1863
399
Notice to discontinue sewerage works
405
Instructions to lockkeepers c
411
Expenses of Improvement Commissioners
415
Contracts
417
Incorporation of Lands Clauses Act
423
Debentures
424
Vict c 21 1867
425
130
426
Appeal against order of local authority
429
Borrowing powers 416
436
Confirmation of the improvement scheme
442
Appropriation of lands 417
444
Holding of markets c
449
THE TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847
455
Slaughterhouses
461
Fires
468
Bathing
478
Protection of water
484
Supply of water
491
Notice of trusts
499
As to register of nominal securities
505
General rules
510
Funds for loans
517
Supplemental provisions as to loans and securities
526
Temporary provisions and repeal
531
Powers of General Board of Health vested in Privy Council
533
THE GARDENS IN TOWNS PROTECTION ACT 1863
538
34 Vict c 13
544
Local boards to put principal Act into execution
549
Vict c i 1873
553
Preliminary
555
Amendment of definition of alkali works
561
Proceedings against offenders
567
Interpretation in application to Ireland
573
Index to the names of the places to which the Provisional Order Confirma
603
REGULATIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AS
605
URBAN INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES
611
Proposal for appointment
615
Proposal for appointment
621
Local authority may take proceedings in superior court for abate
629
131
630
Local authority to repair fences
632
Provisions of Act relating to nuisances not to affect other remedies
638
Interpretation of common lodginghouse
639
OFFENSIVE TRADES
647
Erection of lodginghouses 417
654
66
655
Local Government Board may empower local authority to make
660
Removal to hospital of infected persons brought by ships
667
Purchase c of lands 396
674
512
675
INDEX 627694
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