r upon him to abate the
nuisance, or prohibiting the recurrence of the nuisance if this is
likely, and directing the execution of the necessary works. If the
nuisance is such as to render a dwelling-house unfit for human
habitation, the justices may close it until it is rendered fit for
that purpose. Disobedience under the order of justices involves a
penalty and a daily penalty for every day during which default
continues. Private persons may complain to justices in respect of
nuisances by which they are personally aggrieved, and if the district
council make default in doing their duty, the Local Government Board
may authorize any officer of police to institute any necessary
proceedings at the cost of the defaulting council. The district
council may, if in their opinion proceedings before justices afford an
inadequate remedy, take proceedings in the high court, but in that
case, if the nuisance is of a public nature, they must proceed by
action in the name of the attorney-general. The provisions as to
nuisances are extended to ships by an act of 1885.

It is forbidden to establish within an urban district without the
consent of the council any offensive trade, business or manufacture.
With regard to any offensive trade which has been established or may
be consented to in any urban district, if it is verified by the
medical officer or any two legally qualified medical practitioners, or
by any ten inhabitants of the district, to be a nuisance or injurious
to health, the urban district council are required to take proceedings
before magistrates with a view to the abatement of the nuisance
complained of.

Unsound meat.

Any medical officer or inspector of nuisances may inspect any meat,
&c., exposed for sale or deposited in any place for the purpose of
sale or of preparation for sale and intended for the food of man. This
power of inspection is, in districts where the Public Health Act 1890
has been adopted, extended to all articles intended for the food of
man. If upon such inspection the meat, &c., appears to be diseased,
unsound or unwholesome, it may be taken before a justice for the
purpose of being condemned, and the person to whom the meat, &c.,
belongs or in whose possession it was found is liable to a penalty or,
in the discretion of the justices, to imprisonment for three months
without the option of a fine.

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