Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890

Hoards to be set up during progress of buildings, &c.

10 & 11 Vict. c. 34.

34.(1) Every person intending to build or take down any building, or to alter or repair the outward part of any building in any street or court, shall—

(a) before beginning the same, unless the urban authority otherwise consent in writing, cause close-boarded hoards or fences to the satisfaction of the urban authority to be put up in order to separate the building from the street or court;

(b) if the urban authority so require, make a convenient covered platform and handrail to serve as a footway for passengers outside of such hoard or fence;

(c) continue such hoard or fence with such platform and handrail as aforesaid standing and in good condition to the satisfaction of the urban authority during such time as they may require;

(d) if required by the urban authority, cause the same to be sufficiently lighted during the night;

(e) remove the same when required by the urban authority.

(2) Every person who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding forty shillings.

(3) Where this part of this Act is adopted the eightieth section of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, shall be repealed, and this section shall be deemed to be substituted therefor.