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PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT
(NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949

PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT
(NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - LONG TITLE

An Act to extend the powers of sanitary authorities with respect to
the supply of water and vary the notice to be given by them
respecting sewage works; to amend the law relating to the
constitution and powers of certain joint boards, and to the
guarantee of certain deficits incurred by statutory water
undertakings; to amend the law relating to the borrowing powers of
local authorities and the management of housing accommodation provided
under the Labourers Acts; to amend section seventeen of the Local
Government Act (Northern Ireland), 1934, as to the liability for
certain rates, to extend section two of the Borough Funds (Ireland)
Act, 1888, to amend section three of the Local Government Act
(Northern Ireland), 1923, and to declare the effect of section one
of the Local Officers' Superannuation Act (Ireland), 1869; to amend
the law relating to the appointment of committees by local
authorities and the proceedings of such committees; to apply
sub-section (1) of section four of the Local Government Act
(Northern Ireland), 1934, to the county borough of Londonderry; to
confer on councils of rural districts certain powers as to numbering
of houses and naming of streets; to enable the salaries of judges'
criers to be increased; to extend the powers of certain local
authorities for the provision of allotments; and for purposes
connected with the matters aforesaid.
[13th December 1949]
Ss.15 rep. by 1973 NI2 art.60(2) sch.4. S.6 rep. by 1953 c.13 (NI)
s.4 sch.; 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9. S.7 rep. by 1955 c.6 (NI)
s.21 sch.; 1957 c.10 (NI) s.26(1) sch.3; 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9.
S.8 rep. by 1962 c.30 s.7(9) sch.1 Pt.I; 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149
sch.9. Ss.9,10 rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9. S.11 rep. by SLR
(NI) 1953; 1977 NI8 art.14(2) sch.; 1981 NI3 s.163(2) sch.13. S.12
rep. by SLR (NI) 1953; 1972 NI16 art.63(3) sch.19. Ss.13,14 rep. by
1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9. S.15 rep. by 1950 c.10 (NI) s.9 sch.3.
Ss.16,17 rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9. S.18 rep. by 1972 NI16
art.63(3) sch.19

PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT
(NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - SECT 19
Numbering of houses, etc., by district councils.

19.(1) [A district council], may from time to time cause houses and
buildings in any part of their [district] to be marked with numbers
as they may think fit, and may cause to be put up or painted on
a conspicuous part of a house, building or place at or near each
end, corner or entrance of any street in any part of their
[district] the name by which the street is known.

(2) Where [a district council] have exercised in respect of any
part of their [district] any such power as is referred to in the
preceding sub-section, any person who destroys, pulls down or defaces
any such number or name as aforesaid, or puts up any number or
name different from any number or name put up by the council shall
on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#20]
for every such offence.

(3) Where [a district council] have exercised in respect of any
part of their [district] any such power as is referred to in
sub-section (1) of this section, the occupiers of houses and other
buildings in the streets in that part shall mark their houses with
such numbers as the council approve, and shall renew such numbers
as often as they become obliterated or defaced; and any such
occupier who fails, within one week after notice for that purpose
from the council, to mark his house with a number approved by the
council, or to renew such number when obliterated or defaced, shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding [#20], and the council may
cause such numbers to be marked or to be renewed, as the case may
require, and may recover as a civil debt due by any such occupier
the expense of any such marking or renewal.

(4) Where [a district council] exercise the powers conferred on them
by sub-section (1) of this section [or] by section sixty-four of
the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, as incorporated by section
thirty-eight of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 (as those
Acts have effect in Northern Ireland) with respect to the putting
up or painting of the name by which a street is to be known,
they shall not cause such name to be put up or painted otherwise
than in English.

S.20 rep. by 1954 c.9 (NI) s.29 sch.7

PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT
(NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - SECT 21
Acquisition of land for allotments.

21. The powers conferred by the Allotments Act (Northern Ireland),
1932, on... [district councils] for the purpose of the provision of
allotments shall include power to acquire by agreement land situate
within or without their area, and accordingly... residue amends
ss.1,2,7 of 1932 c.17 (NI)

S.22 rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI) s.48(1) sch.

PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT
(NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - SECT 23
Short title.

23.(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Health and Local
Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland), 1949.

Subs.(2) rep. by SLR (NI) 1953

Schedule rep. by SLR (NI) 1953