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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
(2.) In case the work required by the notice is not begun within forty-eight hours after the service thereof or is not completed to the satisfaction of the surveyor as soon as the nature of the case admits the surveyor may give information thereof to any justice who may thereupon issue his summons requiring such owner or occupier or both of them to appear before a court of summary jurisdiction.
(3.) In case it appears to the court that immediate public danger from such structure or part thereof or thing thereon or attached thereto or projecting therefrom as aforesaid is to be apprehended the court may make an order authorising such surveyor to cause such structure or part thereof or thing thereon or attached thereto or projecting therefrom as aforesaid to be forthwith taken down removed repaired or secured.
(4.) In ease it appears to the court that public danger is to be apprehended but that such danger is not immediate the court may make an order on such owner or occupier or both of them requiring him or them to cause such structure or part thereof or thing thereon or attached thereto or projecting therefrom as aforesaid to be taken down removed repaired or secured to the satisfaction of the surveyor within a period to be prescribed in such order :
In case such order is not obeyed within the period prescribed therein any person on whom such order has been made shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
(5.) The court may at any time after the end of the period prescribed in such order make an order authorising the surveyor to cause such structure or part thereof or thing thereon or attached thereto or projecting therefrom as aforesaid to be taken down removed repaired or secured as required by such order and the person or persons on whom such order has been made shall in addition to such penalty pay all the costs charges and expenses of and incidental to the execution of the order.
(6.) If the owner or occupier of any structure which the surveyor has deemed to be dangerous to the public cannot be found or does not appear after service of notice and summons as herein-before provided the court having cognizance of the matter may make an order authorising the surveyor to cause such structure or part thereof or thing thereon or attached thereto or projecting therefrom as aforesaid to be forthwith taken down removed repaired or secured and the costs charges and expenses thereof shall be paid by such owner or occupier as aforesaid.
84. Sections 69 and 70 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847 (incorporated with the Public Health Acts) shall extend and apply to any crane hoist windlass lamp lamp-post lamp-iron sign
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