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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
cesspool or other receptacle used or formerly used as a receptacle for excreta or other obnoxious matter or for the whole or any part of the drainage of a house or any ash-pit or any well disused well or underground cistern belonging to any such house or part of a house is prejudicial to health or otherwise objectionable for sanitary reasons and that it is desirable that the same should be filled up or removed or so altered as to remove any such objection as aforesaid the Corporation may if they think fit by notice in writing require the owner or occupier of such house or part of a house within a reasonable time to be specified in the notice to cause such cesspool receptacle ash-pit well or cistern to be filled up or removed and any drain communicating with such cesspool or receptacle to be effectually disconnected destroyed and taken away.
Where it appears that any such cesspool receptacle ash-pit well or cistern is used in common by the occupiers of two or more houses or parts of houses the notice for the filling up or removal of any such cesspool receptacle ash-pit well or cistern shall be served on the owners and on one or more of the occupiers of such houses and it shall not be necessary to serve such notice on all such occupiers.
If default is made in complying with the requisitions of a notice under this section the Corporation may themselves carry cut the requisitions and may recover the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the owners or occupiers in default in a summary manner or as private improvement expenses are recoverable under the Public Health Acts.
Any person offending against this enactment shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
122. After the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person without the consent in writing of the Corporation (which consent they may give subject to such terms and conditions as they think fit) to construct any underground cistern for the reception or storage of water to be used for domestic
purposes and any person acting in contravention of any of the provisions of this section or of the terms and conditions (if any) of any consent under this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds Provided that the water company shall not he bound to supply water to any such underground cistern.
123, Any cistern used for the supply of water for domestic purposes which is so placed constructed or kept as to render the water therein liable to contamination causing or likely to cause risk to health shall be deemed to be a nuisance within the meaning of the Public Health Act 1875.
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