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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Incorporation of this Act with special Act.
   2.      ""The special Act:''
   3.      Interpretations in this and the special Act:
   4.      Short title of this Act.
   5.      Form in which portions of this Act may be incorporated with other
           Acts.
   6.      Meaning of inspector and provision as to execution of works before
           inspector is appointed.
   7.      Appointment and salary of surveyor.
   8.      Surveyor, before entering upon office, to make the following
           declaration.
   9.      Commissioners shall appoint an inspector of nuisances.
   10.     Same person may be surveyor and inspector of nuisances.
   11.     Offices for surveyor and inspector.
   12.     Appointment of officer of health.
   19.     Taking of lands for purposes of special Act to be subject to Lands
           Clauses Acts.
   20.     Correction of errors and omissions in schedule to special Act.
   21.     Compensation for damage done to buildings, &c. in execution of
           powers.
   35.     Commissioners empowered to construct drains from houses.
   36.     No house to be built without drains being constructed.
   37.     Where houses are rebuilt, the level shall be raised so as to allow
           a drain to be constructed.
   38.     Notice of intended buildings and rebuildings, with plans showing
           intended levels.
   39.     Commissioners may disapprove intended level and fix the level.
   40.     Houses built without notice, or on a different level from that
           fixed may be altered or demolished.
   41.     If commissioners fail to signify their approval, &c. of level,
           parties may proceed to build.
   42.     Commissioners may require owners of houses to provide privies and
           ashpits.
   43.     On default of owner in providing privy, &c. commissioners may
           provide the same.
   44.     Drains, privies, and cesspools to be under control of commissioners,
           and to be kept in order by owners.
   45.     Inspection of drains, privies, and cesspools.
   46.     Penalty on persons making or altering drains, &c. contrary to the
           orders of the commissioners.
   64.     Houses to be numbered and streets named.
   65.     Numbers of houses to be renewed by occupiers.
   75.     Ruinous or dangerous buildings to be taken down or secured by
           owners, &c.
   76.     Expences recoverable summarily as civil debt.
   77.     If owner cannot be found within the limits, or expences recovered
           as a civil debt, commissioners may take the house or ground.
   78.     Commissioners may sell the materials for payment of expences,
           restoring to the owner the overplus arising from the sale.
   79.     Houses to be protected and bars to be erected across streets,
           during repairs.
   80.     Hoards to be set up during repairs, with footways and lights.
   81.     When building materials are deposited in streets, &c. the same shall
           be lighted at night, and fenced.
   82.     Penalty for continuing deposits of building materials or excavations
           for an unreasonable time.
   83.     Commissioners to cause dangerous places to be repaired or inclosed.
   84.     Commissioners to give notice before fixing levels of streets, or
           making, altering, or abandoning sewers.
   85.     Meeting of commissioners to hear objections to intended works.
   86.     Commissioners may abandon or alter intended works.
   87.     If any objection is made works shall not be executed without
           certificate from inspector or surveyor.
   90.     Persons aggrieved by order of commissioners may appeal to quarter
           sessions.
   91.     Cleansing of strees.
   92.     Dust, &c. collected to be vested in the commissioners.
   93.     Commissioners may provide lands, &c. for deposit of soil and
           materials, and for stabling horses, &c.
   94.     Dust boxes may be erected in streets by commissioners.
   95.     Commissioners may cause public conveniences to be erected.
   96.     Commissioners to cause streets to be watered, or contract for that
           purpose.
   97.     Commissioners to appoint scavengers or contract for their employment.
   98.     Penalty for obstructing scavengers.
   99.     Penalty on persons, other than those employed by commissioners, for
           removing dirt, &c.
   100.    Penalty for conveying offensive matter at improper times, or in an
           improper manner.
   101.    Stagnant pools of water and other annoyances to be removed.
   102.    Regulations to prevent accumulation of dung, &c.
   103.    On certificate of the officer of health, or two surgeons, &c. filth
           to be removed.
   104.    Houses to be whitewashed and purified, and drains, &c. amended on
           certificate of an officer of health, &c.
   105.    No interment in any grave without leaving two feet six inches clear
           of soil above the coffin.
   106.    Justices may order nuisances to be abated.
   107.    Penalty for disobedience to orders of justices.
   109.    Commissioners may direct prosecutions for nuisances, and other
           proceedings, and may order the costs to be paid out of the rates.
   110.    Party walls of new buildings to be carried up through the roof.
   111.    Walls of buildings, and coverings of roofs, to be made of
           incombustible materials.
   112.    Approval by commissioners of plans of churches or buildings intended
           as places for public meetings.
   113.    If commissioners fail to signify their approval of plan within
           fourteen days, party may proceed to build.
   114.    Appeal against determination of commissioners.
   115.    Cellars in courts not to be occupied as dwellings, after notice
           given.
   116.    Regulations as to letting or occupying as dwellings cellars not in
           courts.
   117.    Penalty for letting cellars as dwelling places contrary to the
           provisions of this and the special Act.
   118.    Houses not to be used as public lodging houses unless they are of
           a certain value and are registered.
   119.    Register and inspection of lodging houses.
   120.    Penalty on lodging house keepers not complying with the provisions
           of the Act.
   125.    Commissioners may contract for lighting the streets.
   126.    Price to be paid for gas, in case of dispute, to be ascertained
           by arbitration under 1845 c.18.
   127.    Commissioners may license slaughter-houses, &c.
   128.    New slaughter-houses not to be erected without a licence.
   129.    Existing slaughter-houses, &c. to be registered.
   130.    Commissioners may make byelaws for regulations of slaughter-houses,
           &c.
   132.    Justice may suspend or revoke licences of slaughter-houses, &c. or
           forbid use of registered slaughter-houses, &c.
   133.    Penalty for slaughtering cattle during suspension of licence, &c.
   134.    Final resolution not to be carried into effect for one month.
   135.    Provision of slaughter-houses.
   136.    1953 c.21
   137.    Provision of pleasure grounds and places for public recreation.
   138.    Provision of public baths and wash-houses, &c.
   139.    Proportion of baths for the working classes.
   140.    Charges for the use of baths, &c.
   141.    Recovery of charges for the use of wash-houses, &c.
   142.    Publication of byelaws in regard to baths, &c.
   143.    Section 143
   144.    If works cannot be carried out, application may be made to
           Parliament for additional powers.
   145.    Commissioners empowered to enter upon lands, &c. for inspection or
           execution of works.
   146.    Notice to be given.
   147.    Penalty on persons obstructing commissioners.
   148.    As to service of notice on owners and occupiers of buildings and
           lands.
   149.    Commissioners, in default of owner or occupier, may execute works
           and recover expences.
   150.    Occupier, in default of owner, may execute works, for which owner
           is liable, and deduct expences from rent.
   151.    Power to demand such expences from occupier, and recover as a civil
           debt.
   152.    Burden of proof.
   153.    Saving.
   154.    Commissioners may allow time for repayment by owners of improvement
           expences, when amounting to a certain sum.
   155.    If occupier prevent owner from executing works, a justice may order
           him to allow such works to be executed.
   210.    Contracts for building entered into before passing of special Act to
           be completed with alterations rendered necessary by such Act.
           Difference of cost occasioned by such alterations.
   214.    Buildings to be erected under any lease or agreement to be built
           as required by this or the special Act, without compensation.
   215.    Copies of special Act.

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