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Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967
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21Cleansing and disinfection of premises and articles therein.N.I.
(1)Where [F1 a Health and Social Services Board] are satisfied, upon a certificate of [F1 the[F2 Director of Public Health] of the Board], that the cleansing or disinfection of any premises, or the disinfection or destruction of any articles therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent the spread of any infectious disease, [F1 the Board] shall give notice in writing to the occupier of the premises that they will at his cost cleanse or disinfect, or cleanse and disinfect, the premises and disinfect or, as the case may require, destroy any such articles therein, unless, within twenty-four hours after the receipt of the notice, he informs them that within a time to be fixed by the notice he will take such steps as are specified therein.
(2)If within twenty-four hours after the receipt of a notice under subsection (1) the occupier does not inform [F1 the Board] as aforesaid, or if, having so informed [F1 the Board], he fails to take such steps as aforesaid to the satisfaction of [F1 the[F2 Director of Public Health] of the Board] within the time fixed by the notice, [F1 the Board] may cause the premises to be cleansed or disinfected, or to be cleansed and disinfected, and the articles to be disinfected or destroyed, as the case may require, and may, if they think fit, recover summarily as a civil debt due to [F1 the Board] from the person in default the expenses reasonably incurred by them in so doing.
(3)Where [F1 the Health and Social Services Board] are of opinion that the occupier of any premises is unable effectually to take such steps as [F1 the Board] consider necessary for the purposes of this section, [F1 the Board] may, with the consent of the occupier and without giving a notice under subsection (1), take such steps at their own expense.
(4)[F1 A Health and Social Services Board] may pay compensation to any person who has suffered loss by reason of any disinfection or destruction carried out by them under this section.
(5)In this section “occupier” includes, in the case of unoccupied premises, the person entitled to immediate possesion thereof.
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