Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Application of penalties.

252. Where the application of a penalty under this Act is not otherwise provided for, one half thereof shall go to the informer, and the remainder to the sanitary authority of the district in which the offence was committed: Provided, that if the sanitary authority is the informer they shall be entitled to the whole of the penalty recovered; and all penalties or sums recovered by them on account of any penalty shall be paid over to their treasurer, and shall by him be carried to the account of the fund applicable by such authority to the general purposes of this Act.