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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—
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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. -
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. -
All such other parts of the said City as
the Council may from time to time hereafter
by resolution in that behalf prescribe. -
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.
- All Privies, &c., under control of Council.
- Notice to alter Privy, expense to be recovered.
- Periodical removal.
- Inspection.
- 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:—
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government16 May 1870
Swine, Regulations, Keeping, Prescribed Limits, Christchurch
- ANDREW DUNCAN, Mayor
- GEORGE GORDON, Town Clerk
🏘️ Bye-Law No. 10: Privies and Cesspools
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government16 May 1870
Privies, Cesspools, House Drains, Regulations, Inspection, Penalties, Christchurch
- ANDREW DUNCAN, Mayor
- GEORGE GORDON, Town Clerk
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1870, No 31A