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Public Health Legislation in Scotland: A Consultation

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ANNEX H: CURRENT REQUIREMENTS OF NUISANCES

Nuisances

Current Legislative base

Prohibition or regulation of certain offensive businesses, and byelaws as to offensive businesses

Acts
Public Health (Scotland) Act Section 32

Provision for obtaining order for cleansing offensive ditches lying near to or forming boundaries of districts

S 41

Provision of means for disinfecting bedding etc.

S 46

Persons engaged in washing or mangling clothes to furnish list of owners of clothes in certain cases

S 49

Penalty on ceasing to occupy house without disinfection or notice to owner, or on making false answer

S 53

Power of local authority to make byelaws as to lodging houses

S 72

Tents and vans used for human habitation

S 73

Rules as to underground dwellings

S 74

Penalty on letting underground dwellings

S 75

Cases in which two convictions (of overcrowding or occupation of cellar) have occurred within three months

S 76

Common lodging houses to be registered

S 89

No lodger to be received in common lodging house till it has been inspected and registered

S 90

Evidence of register

S 91

Power to local authority to make byelaws to separate sexes in lodging houses etc

S 92

Copy of byelaws to be furnished gratis to keepers

S 93

Power to local authority to require additional supply of water to be required by keeper

S 94

Power to local authority to order reports from keepers

S 95

Inspection

S 98

Cleansing

S 99

Conviction for third offence etc. to disqualify persons from keeping common lodging houses

S 100

Distilleries etc to deposit refuse

S 116

Works of distribution of sewage to be deemed a land improvement

S 123

Penalty for wilful damage of works

S 151

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