Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

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Privy accommodation for factories.

48. [¹] Where it appears to any sanitary authority that any house is used or intended to be used as a factory or building in which persons of both sexes are employed or intended to be employed at one time in any manufacture trade or business, the sanitary authority may, if they think fit, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of such house, within the time therein specified, to construct a sufficient number of ashpits, and of waterclosets earthclosets or privies, for the separate use of each sex.

Any person who neglects or refuses to comply with any such notice shall be liable for each default to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, and to a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which the default is continued.

[¹ This section is rep. where 53 & 54 Vict. c. 59. s. 22. is in force; see that sec.]