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Designated premises to remain unaltered.
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25.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no person shall, without the consent of the scheme-making local authority concerned—
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(a) make any structural alteration in any designated premises; or
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(b) remove or alter any works executed by, or by arrangement with, that authority in any designated premises, any building of which designated premises form part, or any building or land adjacent to any designated premises:
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but, if a scheme-making local authority refuses its consent or does not give its consent within six weeks from the date on which application is made therefor, the applicant may appeal to the Minister, and the Minister on the hearing of the appeal may authorise any alteration or removal desired by the applicant and the decision of the Minister shall be final and conclusive.
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(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of the preceding sub-section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
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(3) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section in relation to any designated premises it shall be a good defence for such person to prove that he did not know, and had no reasonable grounds for suspecting, that the premises were designated premises.
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(4) Where the court by which a person is convicted of an offence under this section is satisfied that the contravention constituting the offence has rendered the designated premises in question unsuitable, or less suitable, for the public purposes for which they may be required, they may order that the scheme-making local authority concerned shall be at liberty to charge to the person convicted its reasonable expenses of again rendering the premises as suitable for those purposes as they would have been if the contravention had not taken place, and where such an order is made any such expenses of such authority shall be recoverable by it from the person convicted as a simple contract debt.
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