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PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1907 - SECT 30

Dangerous places to be repaired or enclosed.

30. With respect to the repairing or enclosing of dangerous places the
following provisions shall have effect (namely):

(1)If in any situation fronting, adjoining, or abutting on any street or
public footpath, any building, wall, fence, steps, structure, or other thing,
or any well, excavation, reservoir, pond, stream, dam or bank is, for want of
sufficient repair, protection, or enclosure dangerous to the persons lawfully
using the street or footpath, the [district council] may, by notice in writing
served upon the owner, require him, within the period specified in the notice
and herein-after in this section referred to as the "prescribed period", to
repair, remove, protect, or enclose the same so as to prevent any danger
therefrom:

(2)If, after service of the notice on the owner, he shall neglect to comply
with the requirements thereof within the prescribed period, the [district
council] may cause such works as they think proper to be done for effecting
such repair, removal, protection, or enclosure, and the expenses thereof shall
be payable by the owner, and may be recovered summarily as a civil debt.

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