Municipal Regulations




I hereby certify that the above Bye-Law
is in compliance with the 184th section of
"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

REGULATION No. 1.—SWINE.

Regulation of the Council of the City of
Christchurch, under part VIII. of the
13th Schedule of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the said Schedule of the
said Act the Council of the City of
Christchurch make the following Re-
gulations, that is to say:—

The portion of the City of Christchurch
in which it shall not be lawful to keep any
Swine shall be the following, that is to say—

  1. All that part of the said City which is
    bounded on the south by St. Asaph street,
    on the east by Barbadoes street, on the north
    by Salisbury street, and on the west by
    Antigua street.

  2. All other parts of the said City which
    now are, or at the time of the keeping of
    any Swine therein, shall be within 50 feet of
    any private dwelling, or of any public or
    private street within the meaning of the
    said Act.

  3. All such other parts of the said City as
    the Council may from time to time hereafter
    by resolution in that behalf prescribe.

  4. For the purposes of this Regulation
    the streets mentioned in sub-section (1) of
    this Regulation, and any street which may
    be or may come within sub-section (2) of
    this Regulation shall be construed as mean-
    ing the centre of the said streets, or of any
    such street respectively.

Passed by the Council, this the Sixteenth
day of May, 1870.

ANDREW DUNCAN,
Mayor.

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

BYE-LAW NO. 10.

PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS.

INDEX.

  1. All Privies, &c., under control of Council.
  2. Notice to alter Privy, expense to be recovered.
  3. Periodical removal.
  4. Inspection.
  5. Obstructing any Officer of Council, &c.

A Bye-Law of the Council of the City of
Christchurch, made under "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the 186th section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,"
the Council of the City of Christchurch ordain as follows:—

  1. All Privies, Cesspools, and House All Privies, &c.,
    Drains within the City, and as well within
    under control
    of Council.
    as without the premises, to which the same
    may belong, and the cleansing, keeping in
    order and repair of all such Privies, Cess-
    pools, and House Drains shall be under the
    superintendence, government, and control
    of the Council.

  2. The owner or occupier of any dwelling-
    house or other tenement within the City
    requiring reasonably the use of a Privy shall,
    within fourteen days after notice in writing
    given to such owner or occupier in that
    behalf by the Council, construct or alter in
    such manner as shall be specified in such
    notice, a Privy or Privies for the use of such
    dwelling-house or tenement, and shall at all
    times thereafter keep and use in such Privy
    or Privies such closet pan or pans as shall
    from time to time be required by the Coun-
    cil; and in default thereof the Council shall
    cause such Privy or Privies to be provided,
    and the expense incurred thereby shall be
    recovered by the Council from such owner
    or occupier.

  3. The Council shall make such provision
    periodical re-
    for the periodical removal of night soil, dung,
    as it shall think fit
    ashes, slops, filth, refuse, or rubbish of any
    moval
    kind from every dwelling-house or other ten-
    ement as aforesaid within the City, at the
    expense of the owner or occupier thereof.

  4. The Inspector of Nuisances for the time
    Inspection.
    being appointed by the Council, or
    any other person who may be employed by
    the Council for the purposes of this Bye-
    Law, shall have power at all reasonable
    hours in the day or night to enter into or
    upon any building or land within the City
    for the purpose of effecting any such removal,
    or of examining the condition of any
    Privy, Cesspool, Drain, or Closet Pan, or of
    cleansing, constructing, altering, or repairing
    the same.

  5. Any person who shall obstruct any ob-
    Obstructing
    officer or other person employed by the Council
    any Officer of
    in the performance of any thing which such
    officer or other person is or may
    Council, &c.
    be required or authorised to do by or under
    this Bye-Law, or who shall commit any other
    breach of this Bye-Law, shall be liable for
    every such offence to a penalty not exceeding
    five pounds.

The Bye-Laws, or parts of Bye-Laws or
Regulations herein specified, being all the
Bye-Laws or parts of Bye-Laws or Regula-
tions heretofore in force in and for the said
City of Christchurch, which are inconsistent
with or repugnant to the provisions hereof,
or in any respect deal or purport to deal
with the subject matter of this Bye-Law, are
hereby repealed, namely:—"A Bye-Law
made by the Council, in pursuance of
The Christchurch City Council Ordinance.



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🏘️ Bye-Law No. 9: Swine (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
16 May 1870
Swine, Regulations, Keeping, Prescribed Limits, Christchurch
  • ANDREW DUNCAN, Mayor
  • GEORGE GORDON, Town Clerk

🏘️ Bye-Law No. 10: Privies and Cesspools

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
16 May 1870
Privies, Cesspools, House Drains, Regulations, Inspection, Penalties, Christchurch
  • ANDREW DUNCAN, Mayor
  • GEORGE GORDON, Town Clerk