Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890

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Danger from exempted telegraph wires.

14.—(1) If any post, wire, tube, or other apparatus so exempted as aforesaid is during the period of such exemption in the opinion of the surveyor of the urban authority in such a state or position that immediate danger to any person is to be apprehended, he may give information to any justice, who may thereupon summon the owner or lessee thereof or other person interested therein forthwith to appear before a court of summary jurisdiction.

(2) The court may thereupon—

(a) Make an order requiring such owner, lessee, or other person, or all or any of them, to remove or remedy the source of danger; or

(b) Make an order authorising the surveyor to do so at the expense of such owner, lessee, or other person, or of all or any of them; or

(c) Make such other order as may appear to the court under all the circumstances of the case to be necessary and proper.