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POLLUTION CONTROL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 66



66.(1) If it appears to a district council that a building or structure is by
reason of its ruinous or dilapidated condition seriously detrimental to the
amenities of the neighbourhood, the district council may by notice require the
owner thereof

(a)to execute such works of repair or restoration, or

(b)if he so elects, to take such steps for demolishing the building or
structure, or any part thereof, and removing any rubbish or other material
resulting from or exposed by the demolition,

(2) If it appears to a district council that rubbish or other material
resulting from, or exposed by, the demolition or collapse of a building or
structure is lying on the site or on any adjoining land, and that by reason
thereof the site or land is in such a condition as to be seriously detrimental
to the amenities of the neighbourhood, the district council may by notice
require the owner of the site or land to take such steps for removing the
rubbish or material as may be necessary in the interests of amenity.

(3) Section 269 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878, section 7 of the
Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890 and section 7 of the
Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907 (appeals) shall apply in relation to any
notice served under this Article.

(4) A notice served under paragraph (1) or (2) shall indicate both the nature
of the works of repair or restoration and the works of demolition and removal
of rubbish or material.

(5) Subject to the right of appeal under paragraph (3), if a person on whom a
notice is served under paragraph (1) or (2) fails to comply with the notice
then

(a)he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction
to a fine not exceeding #200; and

(b)the district council which served the notice may do what that person was
required by the notice to do and may recover from him any expenses reasonably
incurred by the council in doing it.

(6) Where a person is convicted under paragraph (5) in respect of a failure to
comply with a notice and the failure continues after conviction, he shall be
guilty of a further offence under paragraph (5) and shall be liable on summary
conviction, in addition to the fine specified in that paragraph, to a fine not
exceeding #50 for every day subsequent to the day on which he is first
convicted of an offence under that paragraph on which the failure continues
and before the day on which the district council has begun to exercise its
powers under paragraph (5)(b).

(7) This Article shall not apply to any advertisement as defined in Article
2(2) of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.



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