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Penalty on obstructing execution of Act.
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272. Any person who wilfully obstructs any member of the sanitary authority, or any person duly employed in the execution of this Act, or who destroys pulls down injures or defaces any board on which any byelaw, notice, or other matter is inscribed, shall, if the same was put up by authority of the Local Government Board or of the sanitary authority, be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
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Where the occupier of any premises prevents the owner thereof from obeying or carrying into effect any provisions of this Act, any justice to whom application is made in this behalf shall, by order in writing, require such occupier to permit the execution of any works required to be executed, provided that the same appear to such justice to be necessary for the purpose of obeying or carrying into effect the provisions of this Act; and if within twenty-four hours after the making of the order such occupier fails to comply therewith, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day during the continuance of such non-compliance.
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If the occupier of any premises, when requested by or on behalf of the sanitary authority to state the name of the owner of the premises occupied by him, refuses or wilfully omits to disclose or wilfully mis-states the same, he shall (unless he shows cause to the satisfaction of the court for his refusal) be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
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