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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

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