1(1)Without prejudice to sections 259 and 262 of the Public Health Act 1936, but subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, if a local authority consider that in any premises a pond, pool, ditch, gutter or place containing, or used for the collection of, any drainage, filth, stagnant water or other matter is likely to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance, they may by notice require the owner or occupier of the premises to drain, cleanse, cover or fill up the pond, pool, ditch, gutter or place, or to construct a proper drain for the discharge of the matter, or to execute such other works as the circumstances may require.
(2)The local authority may contribute towards the expenses incurred by any person in complying with a notice under this paragraph.
(3)Where any works required by a notice under this paragraph interfere with any right to the use of water, the local authority may, with the agreement of the person in whom the right is vested, acquire from him the right and any land for the benefit of which the right enures instead of compensating him under section 278 of the Public Health Act 1936.
(4)The provisions of Part XII of the Public Health Act 1936 with respect to appeals against, and the enforcement of, notices requiring the execution of works shall apply in relation to any notice given under this paragraph.
2(1)The Greater London Council may make byelaws in relation to the demolition of buildings in the inner London boroughs—
(a)requiring the fixing of fans at the level of each floor of any such building undergoing demolition ;
(b)requiring the hoarding up of windows in any such building from which sashes and glass have been removed;
(c)regulating the demolition of internal parts of buildings before any external walls are taken down ;
(d)requiring the placing of screens or mats, the use of water or the taking of other precautions to prevent nuisances arising from dust;
(e)regulating the hours during which ceilings may be broken down and mortar may be shot, or be allowed to fall, into any lower floor;
(f)requiring any person proposing to demolish any such building to give to the borough council such notice of his intention to do so as may be specified in the byelaws.
(2)Byelaws under this paragraph may make different provision for different cases, and in particular may provide that, in their application to any area specified in the byelaws, the byelaws shall have effect subject to such modifications or exceptions as may be so specified.
(3)No byelaws under this paragraph shall apply to a building (not being a dwelling-house) belonging to any Board carrying on a railway undertaking and used by that Board as a part of, or in connection with that undertaking.
3The Greater London Council shall make byelaws with respect to sanitary conveniences, ashpits, cesspools and receptacles for dung and their accessories, in connection with buildings in the inner London boroughs and the Temples, whether constructed before or after 1st April 1965.
4The Greater London Council shall make byelaws with respect to the construction and use of incinerators for the disposal of refuse in the inner London boroughs, the City and the Temples, being incinerators which are, or are in the nature of, buildings or structures or which form part of a balding or structure.
5It shall be the duty of each local authority to enforce in their district any byelaws under paragraphs 2 to 4 of this Part of this Schedule which are in force in their district
6The council of any London borough and the Common Council may make byelaws with respect to the following operations, except when carried out by a local authority (including the Greater London Council) and except so far as byelaws with respect thereto may be made under section 72 or 82 of the Public Health Act 1936, that is to say—
(a)the removal of refuse from premises in the council's area ;
(b)the conveyance of refuse by rail, road or water from loading points in that area ;
(c)the deposit of refuse in premises in that area pending its removal or disposal.
7Any person who has in his possession or under his control any article of food which is unsound, unwholesome or unfit for human consumption may, by notice to the local authority, specifying and identifying the article, request its removal, and the local authority shall cause it to be removed as if it were trade refuse which they had undertaken to remove under section 73 (1) of the Public Health Act 1936.
8If the local authority are requested so to do by the occupier of any premises in which there is a person suffering from a notifiable disease, they shall provide for the removal and disinfection or destruction of any rubbish which has been exposed to infection from that disease.
9(1)Where it appears to a local authority, being the council of a London borough or the Common Council, that any land within the area of the authority is by reason of its derelict, neglected or unsightly condition detrimental to the amenities of the neighbourhood, the authority may, after serving notice of their proposals on the owner and on the occupier of the land and subject to sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph, execute such works and do such other things as the authority consider expedient for the purpose of restoring or improving and thereafter preserving the appearance of the land:
Provided that the works and other things which may be required to be executed or done under this paragraph shall not include the erection or maintenance of any building or the doing of anything in or upon any building, but may include the erection or maintenance of a hoarding or fence.
(2)Any person served with a notice under the foregoing sub-paragraph may, if aggrieved by the proposal specified in the notice, appeal to a magistrates' court within the period of twenty-eight days beginning with the date of the service of the notice.
(3)A local authority may proceed with the proposals specified in a notice under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph if but only if—
(a)none of the persons on whom the notice was served has, within the said period of twenty-eight days, taken steps to implement the proposals himself or instituted an appeal against the proposals to a magistrates' court; or
(b)any such steps begun to be taken by any such person within that period are not completed within a reasonable time ; or
(c)any appeal instituted within that period has been dismissed or abandoned or failed for want of prosecution.
(4)Any expenses incurred by the local authority in removing any materials from any land in exercise of the powers conferred on them by this paragraph and the cost of selling any materials so removed may be deducted by the authority from the proceeds which they are required by section 276 of the Public Health Act 1936 to pay to the person to whom the materials belonged.
(5)The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed as prejudicing the powers exercisable by the Greater London Council under section 69 of the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939, or by the council of an outer London borough under section 27 of the Public Health Act 1961, or by the local planning authority under section 89 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
10Without prejudice to paragraph 24 of Part I of this Schedule, expressions used in this Part of this Schedule and the Public Health Act 1936 have the same meanings in this Part of this Schedule as in that Act.