Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 · s 26

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26.
Local authority may put up lamp posts and lamps
(1)  The local authority may cause lamp irons, lamp posts or other lighting apparatus to be put up or fixed upon or against the walls or palisades of any building or enclosure, doing as little damage as is practicable thereto, or to be put up or erected in such other manner within any street, road or place as it deems proper and may cause such number of lamps of such sizes and sorts to be provided and affixed and put on such lamp irons and lamp posts as are necessary for lighting all

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or any of such streets, roads and places and cause the same to be lighted during such hours as are necessary.

Troughs and pipes to be fixed
(2)  The owner of every house or building shall, within twenty-one days after the service of notice from the local authority to that effect, put up and keep in good condition proper troughs, gutters and pipes for receiving and carrying the water from the roof and other part of such house or building and for discharging the same in such manner as the local authority may direct so that it shall not fall upon persons passing along the street or enter any sewer.
(3)  If the notice is not complied with the local authority at any time after the expiration of the time so specified may cause the work to be done and the cost and expenses of so doing shall be paid to the local authority by the owner in default.

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s 26Local authority may put up lamp posts and lamps

(1)

The local authority may cause lamp irons, lamp posts or other lighting apparatus to be put up or fixed upon or against the walls or palisades of any building or enclosure, doing as little damage as is practicable thereto, or to be put up or erected in such other manner within any street, road or place as it deems proper and may cause such number of lamps of such sizes and sorts to be provided and affixed and put on such lamp irons and lamp posts as are necessary for lighting all

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or any of such streets, roads and places and cause the same to be lighted during such hours as are necessary.

Troughs and pipes to be fixed

(2)

The owner of every house or building shall, within twenty-one days after the service of notice from the local authority to that effect, put up and keep in good condition proper troughs, gutters and pipes for receiving and carrying the water from the roof and other part of such house or building and for discharging the same in such manner as the local authority may direct so that it shall not fall upon persons passing along the street or enter any sewer.

(3)

If the notice is not complied with the local authority at any time after the expiration of the time so specified may cause the work to be done and the cost and expenses of so doing shall be paid to the local authority by the owner in default.