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And with respect to ruinous or dangerous buildings, be it enacted as follows:
If any building or wall, or anything affixed thereon, within the limits of the special Act, be deemed by the surveyor of the commissioners to be in a ruinous state, and dangerous . . . F1 to the occupiers of the neighbouring buildings, such surveyor . . . F1 shall cause notice in writing to be given to the owner of such building or wall, if he be known and resident within the said limits, and shall also cause such notice to be put on the door or other conspicuous part of the said premises, or otherwise to be given to the occupier thereof, if any, requiring such owner or occupier forthwith to take down, secure, or repair such building, wall, or other thing, as the case shall require; and if such owner or occupier do not begin to repair, take down, or secure such building, wall, or other thing within the space of three days after any such notice has been given or put up as aforesaid, and complete such repairs, or taking down or securing, as speedily as the nature of the case will admit, the said surveyor may make complaint thereof before two justices, and it shall be lawful for such justices to order the owner, or in his default the occupier (if any), of such building, wall, or other thing, to take down, rebuild, repair or otherwise secure, to the satisfaction of such surveyor, the same, or such part thereof as appears to them to be in a dangerous state, within the time to be fixed by such justices; and in case the same be not taken down, repaired, rebuilt, or otherwise secured within the time so limited, or if no owner or occupier can be found on whom to serve such order, the commissioners shall with all convenient speed cause all or so much of such building, wall, or other thing as shall be in a ruinous condition, and dangerous as aforesaid, to be taken down, repaired, rebuilt, or otherwise secured, in such manner as shall be requisite; and all the expences . . . F1 of taking down, repairing, rebuilding, or securing such building, wall, or other thing, shall be paid by the owner thereof.
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Highways Act 1959 (c. 25), Sch. 25
If such owner can be found within the limits of the special Act, and if, on demand of the expences aforesaid, he neglect or refuse to pay the same, then such expences may be levied by distress, and any justice may issue his warrant accordingly.
If such owner cannot be found within the said limits, or sufficient distress of his goods and chattels within the said limits cannot be made, the commissioners, after giving twenty-eight days notice of their intention to do so, by posting a printed or written notice in a conspicuous place on such building or on the land whereon such building stood, may take such building or land, provided that such expences be not paid or tendered to them within the said twenty-eight days, making compensation to the owner of such building or land in the manner provided by the M1Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, in the case of lands taken otherwise than with the consent of the owners and occupiers thereof, and the commissioners shall be entitled to deduct out of such compensation the amount of the expences aforesaid, and may thereupon sell or otherwise dispose of the said building or land for the purposes of this Act.
Marginal Citations
If any such house or building as aforesaid, or any part of the same, be pulled down by virtue of the powers aforesaid, the commissioners may sell the materials thereof, or so much of the same as shall be pulled down, and apply the proceeds of such sale in payment of the expences incurred in respect of such house or building; and the commissioners shall restore any overplus arising from such sale to the owner of such house or building, on demand; nevertheless, the commissioners, although they sell such materials for the purposes aforesaid, shall have the same remedies for compelling the payment of so much of the said expences as may remain due after the application of the proceeds of such sale as are herein-before given to them for compelling the payment of the whole of the said expences.
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 66–74, 79–83 repealed by Highways Act 1959 (c. 25), Sch. 25
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