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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
certificate shall have been granted by the surveyor to the owner that such house is in every respect in accordance with the byelaws and requirements for the time being in force Provided that if the surveyor shall fail to give such certificate within seven: days after a written application for it shall have been. made to him by the owner of such building and shall not in the meantime have specified to the owner which of the aforesaid byelaws and requirements have not been complied with with respect to such building then such building shall be thenceforth deemed in every respect in accordance with the aforesaid byelaws and requirements and may be occupied as- a dwelling-house and if any building shall be occupied contrary to the provisions of this section the owner of such building (if he shall occupy or shall allow to be occupied) and every person who shall wilfully and knowingly occupy such building as a dwelling-house shall be deemed to have committed an offence against the provisions of this section and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
92.-(1.) In case the occupier of any house or part of a house shall prevent the owner thereof from carrying into effect any requirement of the Corporation under this Act or under any byelaw made under the powers of this Act then after notice of this prevision shall have been given by the owner to the occupier any court of summary jurisdiction upon proof thereof may make an order in writing requiring the occupier to permit the owner to execute the
works required by the Corporation to be done and if after the expiration of seven days from the service of such order the occupier shall continue to refuse to
permit the owner to execute the said works he shall for every day during which he shall so continue to refuse be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and during the continuance of such refusal the owner shall be discharged from any penalties to which he might otherwise have become
liable by reason of his default in executing such works.
(2.) If the occupier of any premises when requested by or on behalf of the Corporation to state the name of the owner of the premises occupied by him shall refuse or wilfully omit to disclose or wilfully misstate the same he shall (unless he shall show a cause to the satisfaction of the court for his refusal) be liable to a penalty
not exceeding five pounds.
93. There shall be exempted from so much of the provisions of this Act as relates to buildings and structures every building structure or work vested in or in the occupation of Her Majesty Her heirs and successors either beneficially or as part of the hereditary revenues of the Crown or in trust for the public service or public
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