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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 53

Penalty on neglect of district council to remove refuse, &c.

53. If a [district council] who have themselves undertaken or contracted for
the removal of house refuse from premises, or the cleansing of earthclosets,
privies, ashpits, and cesspools, fail, without reasonable excuse, after notice
in writing from the occupier of any house within their district requiring them
to remove any house refuse, or to cleanse any earthcloset, privy, ashpit, or
cesspool belonging to such house or used by the occupiers thereof, to cause
the same to be removed or cleansed, as the case may be, within seven days, the
[district council] shall be liable to pay to the occupier of such house a
penalty not exceeding [25p] for every day during which such default continues
after the expiration of the said period.]

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