Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

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Penalty in respect of certain nuisances on premises.

57. Any person who in any sanitary district—

(1.) Keeps any swine or pig stye in any dwelling-house, or so as to be a nuisance to any person; or

(2.) Suffers any waste or stagnant water to remain in any cellar or place within any dwelling-house for twenty-four hours after written notice to him from the sanitary authority to remove the same; or

(3.) Allows the contents of any watercloset privy or cesspool to overflow or soak therefrom,

shall, for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and to a further penalty not exceeding five shillings for every day during which the offence is continued, and the sanitary authority shall abate or cause to be abated every such nuisance, and may recover in a summary manner the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the occupier, or, in the case of houses let to weekly or monthly tenants, or in separate apartments, from the owner of the premises on which the nuisance exists.

Offensive Ditches and Collections of Matter.