Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1931

Penalty for preventing execution of repairs, etc.

46.—(1) If any person, after receiving notice of the intended action—

(a) being the occupier of any premises prevents the owner thereof or his officers, agents, servants or workmen from carrying into effect with respect to those premises any of the provisions of Part III of this Act;

(b) being the owner or occupier of any premises prevents the medical officer of health or any officers, agents, servants or workmen of such officer or of the local authority from so doing; or

(c) being the inmate of any premises, prevents the owner thereof or any other person upon whom any obligations with respect to the premises are imposed by bye-laws under section 20 of the Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919 , from complying with such obligations,

a court of summary jurisdiction on proof thereof may order that person to permit to be done on the premises all things requisite for carrying into effect such provisions or the fulfilment of such obligations with respect to the premises.

(2) If any such person fails to comply with any such order of a court of summary jurisdiction, he shall for each day during which the failure continues be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.