Power to require privy accommodation to be provided for dwelling houses

(1) Any health officer may by notice in writing require the owner of any dwelling house or the occupier of any agricultural estate to provide for the inmates or labourers as the case may be sufficient privy accommodations of such description and in such situation as may be specified in the notice, or to put any existing privy accommodation into a proper state of repair. (2) If the owner or occupier as the case may be fails to comply with such notice within one month from the receipt of the notice, he is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and the health officer may, if he thinks fit, cause the privy accommodation to be provided or repaired as required by the notice, and may, in the case of a dwelling- house or of an agricultural estate of which the occupier is the owner, declare the expenses of so doing to be private improvement expenses or, in the case of an agricultural estate of which the occupier is not the owner, may summarily recover the expenses of so doing from the occupier. a populous area