Cost of execution of provisions relating to nuisances

(1) All reasonable costs and expenses incurred in serving a notice, making a complaint or obtaining a nuisance order, or in carrying the order into effect, shall be deemed to be money paid for the use and at the request of the person on whom the order is made, or, if no order is made but the nuisance is proved to have existed when the notice was served or the complaint made, then of the author of the nuisance. (2) Costs and expenses incurred in relation to any nuisance mentioned in this Part may be recovered as a civil debt, and the court shall have power to divide such costs and expenses between the authors as to it may seem just. (3) Where, in accordance with this Act, a Local Authority has itself abated or removed a nuisance or done what is necessary to prevent a recurrence thereof, if no owner or occupier of the premises can be found, or appears or pays the expenses thereby incurred within six months after the completion of the removal or abatement of such nuisance, the court may order the premises upon which the work has been done, or any part thereof, or any personal property found thereon, to be sold by public auction, and the amount realised by such sale shall be applied in defraying the said costs and expenses, and the balance, if any, paid over to the owner or occupier if he establishes his claim thereto within two years after the date of such sale failing which such balance shall become part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.