The sanitary inspector's handbook / by Albert Taylor.

  • Taylor, Albert.
Date:
1905
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    The duties formulated by the Local Government Board for the guidance of Sanitary Inspectors require that he shall, on receiving notice of the breach of any by-laws or regulations made by the Sanitary Authority or the County Council, which it is the duty of the Sanitary Authority to enforce, enquire into such alleged breach of by-laws or regulations. Lumley, in his work on by-laws, gives the following definition of a by-lawA by-law is a law made with due legal obligation by some authority less than the Sovereign and Parliament, in respect of a matter specially or impliedly referred to that authority and not provided for by the general law of the land. The same writer makes the following remarks on the pyoperties of by-laws. catL^ ^ ' ^^^ '^t not only con a.n all the properfes of a pubHc law, but is subject to certain quali ficat ons ans.ng out of the subordination of the authority that makes it. estabi:::;d '''' '''''' ^'^^ P-P-^'^ons are genert W -P^--' to the th!; in addition to the general law, and therefore must not simply re-enact it. ° u'^'' ^ ^P^t °f ^ '^er already pro- vided for other than what the general law has prescribed But, in the second place, it is necessary to advert to the ^^n.r.i requisites of a public law, and thus it is found that - ^ 4. A by-law must be certain in its enactment,free from ambiguity and must afford complete direction to those who are to obey it 5- It must be general in its application. 6. It must be as it is expressed in the usual authorities and hv M.. courts in their numerous decisions, reasonable. This t m as U tin seen hereafter, involves a great deal of consideration. ' 7. It must be positive in its terms, and directed to nrnh;i,v an act by the persons upon whom it is to operate for Ihe b^ethTf if ' ''''''' ^^''''^ ^ '^'^^^^ Penalty I 2