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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
as herein-after provided underpin or otherwise strengthen the same and the following provisions shall have effect (that is to say):-
(1) At least ten days' notice shall unless in case of emergency be given to the owners lessees and occupiers or by the owners and lessees of the house or building so intended or so required to be underpinned or otherwise strengthened:
(2.) Each such notice if given by the Corporation shall be served in manner prescribed by section 19 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 and if given by the owners and lessees of the premises to be underpinned or strengthened shall be sent to the town clerk:
(3.) If any owner lessee or occupier of any such house or building or the Corporation as the case may require shall within seven days after the giving of such notice give a counter notice in writing that he or they as the case may be disputes or dispute the necessity of such underpinning or strengthening the question of the y necessity shall be referred to an engineer to be agreed upon or in case of difference to an engineer to be appointed at the instance of either party by the Board of Trade:
(4.) Such referee shall forthwith upon the application of either party proceed to inspect such house or building and determine the matter referred to him and in the event of his deciding that such underpinning or, strengthening is necessary he may and if so required by such owner lessee or occupier shall prescribe the mode in which the same shall he executed and the Corporation may and shall proceed forthwith so to underpin or strengthen the said house or building:
(5.) The cost of the reference shall be in the discretion of the referee :
(6.) The Corporation shall be liable to compensate the owners lessees and occupiers of every such house or building for any inconvenience loss or damage which may result to them by reason of the exercise of the powers granted by this enactment:
(7.) If in any case in which any house or building shall have been underpinned or strengthened on the requisition of the Corporation such underpinning or strengthening shall prove inadequate for the support or protection of the house or building against further injury arising from the execution or use of the works of the Corporation then and in every such case unless such underpinning: or strengthening shall have been done in pursuance of and in the mode prescribed by the referee the Corporation shall make compensation to the owners lessees and
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