| 8. | The Chairman of the Council, or any person duly authorised by the Council in that behalf, may by notice in writing direct the owner or occupier of any house or other building in a dirty and unwholesome state to clean or cause the same to be cleaned within a time to he specified in such notice, which may be in Form C in the Schedule hereto. And if after service of such notice upon him any person shall refuse or neglect to comply with such notice, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound for the first offence and not exceeding two pounds for every subsequent offence. |
| 9. | The Council may order the removal or destruction of any building in a dirty and unwholesome state, if in its opinion it is unsuitable (or human accommodation, or if the owner or occupier thereof fails after due notice to clean, renovate, or himself remove or destroy the same. Any costs incurred by the Council in and about such removal or destruction shall be a debt due to the Council, recoverable as liquidated damages by process in the Magistrate's Court. |
| 10. | The Village Committee may in its discretion ease or modify the application of the foregoing By-laws Nos, 8 and 9, in the case of any old, ill, or feeble person occupying any such buildings as aforesaid, so that such by-law may not press heavily on such person. The Chairman of the Village Committee shall report the case and all the circumstances to the Chairman of the Council, whereupon the Council shall consider such case and decide whether it shall devote part of its funds towards cleansing and otherwise improving the dwellings of such sick, old, or feeble persons. |
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