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If any person at any time after the third day of December, nineteen hundred and nineteen, without the permission in writing of the local authority within whose area the house is situate, demolishes, in whole or in part, or uses otherwise than as a dwelling-house any house which was at that date in the opinion of the local authority reasonably fit or reasonably capable of being made fit for human habitation. he shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each house demolished or so used to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such imprisonment and fine, and where the person guilty of an offence under this Section is a company, every director and officer of the company shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his consent or connivance.
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Lords Amendment: After the word "connivance "["without his consent or connivance"] insert the words
(2) Any person to whom permission to demolish a house has been refused by a local authority under this Section, may appeal to the Minister on the ground that the house is not capable without reconstruction of being rendered fit for human habitation, and any such appeal shall be dealt with in the same manner as an appeal under Sub-section (2) of the preceding Section of this Act.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in this Section the permission of the local authority shall not be required in the case of any house the demolition of which is required or authorised by, under, or
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in pursuance of any Act of Parliament, or which is used otherwise than as a dwelling-house for any statutory purposes.
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Amendment made: At the end of the Lords Amendment last inserted, insert the words
or which is occupied or used otherwise than as a dwelling-house before the third day of December, 1919."—[Dr. Addison.]