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and drainage of floors and any regulations or orders made
in pursuance thereof shall, as respects any factory in which
mechanical power is not used, be enforced by the local
health authority.

(3) Every local health authority shall keep a register
of all factories situate within their district with respect
to which the duty of enforcing any of the said provisions
is imposed upon them.

(4) For references in any of the foregoing provisions
of this Part of this Ordinance to an inspector there shall,
as respects any factory or part thereof in which that
provision is enforceable by a local health authority, be
substituted references to an officer of the local health
authority.

12. (1) Where an inspector finds any act or default, in
relation to any drain, sanitary convenience, water supply,
nuisance, or other matter in a factory which is liable
to be dealt with by the local health authority under this
Part of this Ordinance or under the law relating to public
health, he shall give notice thereof in writing to the local
health authority and to the Central Board of Health, and
it shall be the duty of the local health authority to make
such inquiry into the subject of the notice, and take such
action thereon, as seems to the local health authority
proper for the purpose of enforcing the law, and to inform
the Central Board of Health and the inspector of the
proceedings taken in consequence of the notice.

(2) Where an inspector finds any such act or default
as aforesaid, he may take with him into the factory a
medical officer of health, sanitary inspector, or other
officer of the local health authority.

(3) If within one month after notice of an act or
default is given by an inspector under this section to a
local health authority proceedings are not taken for
remedying the act or default or for punishing the offender,
the Central Board of Health shall have power to enforce
any of the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance which
the local health authority has failed to enforce, and for
the purposes of this section the Central Board of Health

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Powers of an
inspector as
to sanitary
defects
remediable
by local
health
authority.