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PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1890 - SECT 24

Rooms over privies, &c. not to be used as dwelling or sleeping rooms.

24.(1) Where any portion of a room extends immediately over any privy (not
being a watercloset or earth-closet), or immediately over any cesspool,
midden, or ashpit, that room, whether built before or after the adoption of
this part of this Act, shall not be occupied as a dwelling place, sleeping
place, or work-room or place of habitual employment of any person in any
manufacture, trade, or business during any portion of the day or night.

(2) Any person who after the expiration of one month after the adoption of
this part of this Act, and after notice from the [district council] of not
less than seven days, so occupies, and any person who suffers to be so
occupied, any such room, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#2], and
to a daily penalty not exceeding [50p].

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