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Penalty for obstructing Officers, defacing Boards, &c.;
upon Occupiers preventing Execution of Works.
Occupiers to disclose Owners Name.
Consents of Board of Health and Local Board to be in Writing.
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CXLVIII. And be it enacted, That whosoever wilfully obstructs any Superintending Inspector, or any Member of the Local Board of Health, or any Officer or Person duly employed in the Execution of this Act, or destroys, pulls down, injures, or defaces any Board upon which any Bye Law, Notice, or other Matter is inscribed, shall, if the same were put up by Authority of the Local or General Board of Health, be liable for every such Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds; and if the Occupier of any Premises prevent the Owner thereof from obeying or carrying into effect the Provisions of this Act, any Justice to whom Application is made in this Behalf shall, by Order in Writing (which may be according to the Form contained in the Schedule (F.) to this Act annexed, or to the like Effect), require such Occupier to permit the Execution of the Works required to be executed, provided that the same appear to such Justice to be such as are necessary for the Purpose of obeying or carrying into effect the Provisions of this Act; and if within a reasonable Time after the making of such Order the Occupier against whom it is made refuse to comply therewith, he shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every Day afterwards during the Continuance of such Refusal; and if the Occupier of any Premises, when requested by or on behalf of the Local Board of Health to state the Name of the Owner of the Premises occupied by him shall refuse or wilfully omit to disclose or wilfully mis-state the same, any Justice may, on Oath made before him of such Request, and Refusal, Omission, or Mis-statement, summon the Party to appear before him or some other Justice at a Time and Place to be appointed in such Summons, and if after being so summoned he neglect or refuse to attend at the Time and Place so appointed, or if he do not show good Cause for such Refusal, or if such wilful Omission or Mis-statement be proved, the Justice before whom the Party is so summoned may impose upon the Offender a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.
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