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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 27

Penalty on building house without drains in any district.

27. It shall not be lawful in any ... district newly to erect any house or to
rebuild any house which has been pulled down to or below the first floor, or
to occupy any house so newly erected or rebuilt, unless and until a covered
drain or drains be constructed, of such size and materials, in such manner,
and at such level, and with such fall as may appear to the [district council]
to be necessary for the effectual drainage of such house; and the drain or
drains so to be constructed shall empty into some sewer which the [district
council] are entitled to use, and which is within one hundred feet of some
part of the site of the house to be built or rebuilt; but if no such means of
drainage are within that distance, then shall empty into such properly
constructed cesspool or other place, not being under any house, as the
[district council] direct: Provided always, that the [district council] may,
at the request of the owner of the house, permit such drain or drains to be
disconnected from the interior of the house in such manner as it may think
proper.

Any person who causes any house to be erected or rebuilt or any drain to be
constructed in contravention of this section shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding fifty pounds.

S.27A rep. by 1973 NI 2 art.60(2) sch.4. S.28 rep. by 1964 c.27 (NI) s.43 sch.

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