[Report 1878] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford.

  • Herefordshire Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities.
Date:
1878
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    order authorising them to proceed with the works, and there- upon the court shall summon the owner, and, if satisfied on hearing the case that the objections are not well founded, shall make an order authorising the Authority to proceed with the works in the event of their not being executed by the owner within a time limited by the order. If the objections stated in the memorial are or include the fourth and fifth of the above-mentioned grounds, or either of them, the Authority shall forward a copy of the memorial to the Local Government Board, who may either cancel the require- ment of the Authority, or confirm the same, with or without modifications. If the Local Government Board confirm the requirement they shall issue an order authorising the Authority, subject to such modifications, if any, as they prescribe, to execute the works in the event of such works not being executed by the owner within a time limited by the order. Any such order may, if the Local Government Board think it equitable so to do, apportion the expense of providing the supply between the owner of the house and the Authority of the district comprising the contributory place in which the house is situate, or between the owner and any other person or persons. If the Local Government Board cancel the requirement on the grounds that the Authority ought themselves to provide a supply of water for the district or contributory place in which the house is situate, or to render the existing supply wholesome, the memorial shall be deemed to have been a complaint of default made to the Local Government Board against the Authority under the 299th section of the Public Health Act, 1875. 5. Where the expenses of providing a joint supply of water for two or more houses are apportioned under this Act by a Rural Sanitary Authority among the owners of the several houses, notice of such apportionment shall be forthwith given to each of such owners, and if any owner objects to the apportion- ment as unjust, he may, within twenty-one days after sendee on him of notice thereof, apply to a justice, and thereupon the justice may summon the Authority, ana also the other owners, to show cause before a court of summary jurisdiction why the apportionment should not be varied, and the court may either dismiss the application or make such order varying the apportion- ment as to the court may appear reasonable. G. It shall not be lawful in any rural district for the owner of any dwelling house which may be erected after the date of the commencement of this Act, or of any dwelling-house which after that date may be pulled down to or below the ground floor and rebuilt, to occupy the same, or cause or permit