To ([A]) the Owner of the ruinous and dangerous ([B]) under-mentioned and the occupier thereof.
Whereas a certain ([B]) situated at within the borough of , in the county of , is deemed by me, the undersigned, the surveyor of the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the said borough of , acting by the council as the urban sanitary authority for the same, to be in a ruinous state and dangerous to passengers or to the occupiers of neighbouring buildings:
Therefore take notice, that you are hereby required, in pursuance of the provisions in that behalf of the Public Health Act 1875, and the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, to take down, repair or secure the said ([B]).
And that if you do not or if neither of you does begin to take down, repair, or secure the said ([B]) within the space of three days after this notice has been served upon you or put upon the said premises, and complete such taking down, repairing or securing as speedily as the nature of the case will admit, I shall cause complaint thereof to be made before two justices in accordance with the provisions of the statutes aforesaid.
Dated this day of 18 .
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Surveyor of the said Urban Sanitary Authority.
A. The name and description of the owner or occupier, or the names, &c., of both should be here inserted.
B. Building, wall, or anything affixed thereon.
Before closing this chapter upon “Obstructions in Streets” I give the following clause from the “Towns Improvement Clauses Act,” which comes after two other sections of the same Act principally dealing with building materials, rubbish, or holes in streets, and although in this clause the word “building” is used, the section cannot be taken as referring to dangerous buildings, although it may undoubtedly be used where it is required on account of waste land, &c., being left in an unprotected and dangerous state:—
“If any building or hole or any other place near any street be, for want of sufficient repair, protection or inclosure, dangerous to the passengers along such street, the commissioners shall cause the same to be repaired, protected or inclosed so as to prevent danger therefrom; and the expense of such repair, protection or inclosure shall be repaid to the commissioners by the owner of the premises so repaired, protected or inclosed, and shall be recoverable from him as damages” (10 & 11 Vic. c. 34, s. 83).