s.44Power of Chief Environmental Health Officer to require action
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Section 44Part 9 — Rodent Control

Power of Chief Environmental Health Officer to require action

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If, in the case of any premises, it appears to the Chief Environmental Health Officer, whether in consequence of a notice given in respect of the premises under section 43 or otherwise, that steps should be taken for the destruction of rats or mice on the premises or otherwise for keeping the premises free from rats or mice, the Chief Environmental Health Officer may serve on the owner or occupier of the premises a notice requiring that owner or occupier to take, within such reasonable period as may be specified in the notice, such reasonable steps for the purpose aforesaid as may be so specified; and, where the owner of any premises is not also the occupier thereof, separate notice may be served on the owner and the occupier.
Any such notice may —
require the application to the premises of any form of treatment specified in the notice;
require the carrying out on the premises of any structural repairs or other works so specified; and
prescribe the times at which any treatment required by the notice to be carried out.
If, on complaint made by the owner of any premises, it appears to the Court that the occupier of the premises prevents the owner from carrying out any work which that person is required to carry out by a notice under this section, the Court may order the occupier to permit the carrying out of the work.

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