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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 114

Order of prohibition in case of house unfit for human habitation.

114. Any person not obeying an order to comply with the requisitions of the
[district council] or otherwise to abate the nuisance, shall, if he fails to
satisfy the court that he has used all due diligence to carry out such order,
be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#400 and where a person is guilty of an
offence against this section within one year after the conviction he shall be
guilty of a further offence and shall be liable, in addition to that fine, to
a fine not exceeding #50 for every day subsequent to the day on which he is
first convicted of an offence under this section on which this section is
contravened]; and any person knowingly and wilfully acting contrary to an
order of prohibition shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#400 and
where a person is guilty of an offence against this section within one year
after the conviction he shall be guilty of a further offence and shall be
liable, in addition to that fine, to a fine not exceeding #50 for every day
subsequent to the day on which he is first convicted of an offence under this
section on which this section is contravened]; moreover, the [district
council] may enter the premises to which any order relates, and abate the
nuisance, and do whatever may be necessary in execution of such order, and
recover in a summary manner the expenses incurred by them from the person on
whom the order is made.

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