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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 80

Hoards to be set up during repairs, with footways and lights.

80. Every person intending to build or take down any building within the
limits of the special Act, or to cause the same to be so done, or to alter or
repair the outward part of any such building, or to cause the same to be so
done, where any street or footway will be obstructed or rendered inconvenient
by means of such work, shall before beginning the same cause sufficient hoards
or fences to be put up, in order to separate the building where such works are
being carried on from the street, with a convenient platform and handrail, if
there be room enough, to serve as a footway for passengers, outside of such
hoard or fence, and shall continue such hoard or fence, with such platform and
handrail as aforesaid, standing and in good condition, to the satisfaction of
the commissioners, during such time as the public safety or convenience
requires, and shall in all cases in which it is necessary, in order to prevent
accidents, cause the same to be sufficiently lighted during the night; and
every such person who fails to put up such fence or hoard, or platform with
such handrail as aforesaid, or to continue the same respectively standing and
in good condition as aforesaid during the time aforesaid, or who does not,
while the said hoard or fence is standing, keep the same sufficiently lighted
in the night, or who does not remove the same, when directed by
the commissioners, within a reasonable time afterwards, shall for every such
offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#100], and a further penalty not
exceeding [#2] for every day while such default is continued.

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