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Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897
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Part I Authorities for Execution of Act
6. Powers of Board to inquire into sanitary conditions of district.
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8. Power to Board to appoint commissioners for conducting special inquiries.
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17. Duty of local authority to inspect district for detection of nuisances.
21. On non-compliance with notice local authority to proceed summarily.
22. Proceedings by local authority when nuisances are ascertained to exist.
26. Local authority to do works on owner’s or occupier’s default, or if person causing nuisance cannot be found.
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30. Penalty for injuring closet, &c. so as to cause nuisance.
32. Prohibition or regulation of certain offensive businesses, and byelaws as to offensive businesses.
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36. Duty of local authority to complain to sheriff, &c. of nuisance arising from offensive trade.
37. Provision as to nuisance created by local authority in dealing with refuse.
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41. Provision for obtaining order for cleansing offensive ditches lying near to or forming boundaries of districts.
42. Periodical removal of manure from mews and other premises.
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Part III General Prevention and Mitigation of Disease
Infectious Diseases—Prevention
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49. Persons engaged in washing or mangling clothes to furnish list of owners of clothes in certain cases.
50. Infectious matter thrown into ash-pits, &c. to be disinfected.
51. Penalty on letting houses in which infected persons have been lodging.
52. Penalty on persons letting houses making false statements as to infectious disease.
53. Penalty on ceasing to occupy house without disinfection or notice to owner, or on making false answer.
54. Removal to hospital of infected persons without proper lodging.
55. Detention of infected persons without proper lodging in hospital.
57. Penalty on sending child to school, so as to spread infection.
59. Prohibition on conveyance, &c. of infected person in public conveyance.
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63. Body of person dying of infectious disease in hospital, &c. to be removed only for burial.
64. Disinfection of public conveyances if used for carrying corpses.
Part V Regulation of Common Lodging-Houses
90. No lodger to be received in common lodging-house till it has been inspected and registered.
94. Power to local authority to require additional supply of water.
96. Local authority may remove sick persons to hospitals, &c.
100. Conviction for third offence, &c. to disqualify persons from keeping common lodging-houses.
Part VI Sewers, Drains, and Water Supply
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123. Works of distribution of sewage to be deemed a land improvement.
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Enforcement of and Procedure under Act
146. Procedure if local authority neglect its duty under Act. Procedure under 18 & 19 Vict. c. 68.
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150. Local authority may require payment of costs, &c from owner or occupier, and occupier paying to deduct from rent.
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158. Justices, &c. being members of local authority may act.
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161. One or more joint owners may be proceeded against alone.
163. Penalty for violating Act or obstructing its execution.
166. Local authority or Board not liable for irregularity of their officers.
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177. Provision as to ships within the jurisdiction of local authority.
178. Provision as to district of local authority extending to places where ships are lying.
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