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PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1890 - SECT 20

Sanitary conveniences for public accommodation.

20.(1) Where [a district council] provide and maintain for public
accommodation any sanitary conveniences, such [council] may

(i)Make regulations with respect to the management thereof and make byelaws as
to the decent conduct of persons using the same;

(ii)Let the same from time to time for any term not exceeding three years at
such rent and subject to such conditions as they may think fit;

(iii)Charge such fees for the use of any waterclosets provided by them as they
may think proper.

(2) No public sanitary convenience shall, after the adoption of this part of
this Act, be erected in or accessible from any street without the consent in
writing of the [district council], who may give such consent upon such terms
as to the use thereof or the removal thereof at any time, if required by the
[district council], as they may think fit.

(3) Any person who erects a sanitary convenience in contravention of this
enactment, and after a notice in writing to that effect from the [district
council] does not remove the same, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
five pounds, and to a daily penalty not exceeding [#1].

(4) Nothing in this section shall extend to any sanitary convenience now or
hereafter to be erected by any railway company within their railway station
yard or the approaches thereto.

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