§ (1) Where a local authority having power to enforce this Act is of opinion that the occupier of any land in its district has failed to take such steps as are required by Section one of this Act, such local authority may either serve a notice on the occupier requiring him to take such steps within a time specified in the notice, or after not less than twenty-four hours previous notice to the occupier enter upon the land and take such steps as are necessary and reasonably practicable for the purpose of destroying the rats and mice on the land or of preventing the land from becoming infested with rats and mice, and may recover any expenses so incurred from the occupier of the land summarily as a civil debt.
§ Lords Amendments:
§ In Sub-section (1), after the word "steps" ["to take such steps"], insert the words "as are prescribed in the notice."—Agreed to.
§ Leave out the words "in the notice" and insert instead thereof the word "therein."—Agreed to.
§ After the word "any" ["recover any expenses"] insert the word "reasonable."—Agreed to.
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After Sub-section (1), insert new Subsections
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(2) A local authority in the exercise of its powers under this Section shall, as far as possible, take or secure collective action for the destruction of rats or mice.
(3) The powers of a local authority under this Act may be exercised by any committee of the local authority to which the exercise of those powers may be delegated.
§ —Agreed to.
§ After Clause 5, insert