Health Act 1956

Powers and duties of local authorities - Nuisances

30: Penalties for permitting or causing nuisances

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"Breaking the law by causing a nuisance can lead to penalties and fines."

If you do something, or fail to do something, that causes a nuisance, you can get in trouble with the law. This can happen even if you do not own the place where the nuisance is happening. You can be considered to have committed an offence if a nuisance starts or keeps happening because of something you did or did not do. If you are found guilty of causing a nuisance and you can fix the problem but do not, you can get in trouble with the law again. You will be treated as if you committed another offence if you fail to fix the nuisance after you have been convicted.

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Part 2Powers and duties of local authorities
Nuisances

30Penalties for permitting or causing nuisances

  1. Every person by whose act, default, or sufferance a nuisance arises or continues, whether that person is or is not the owner or occupier of the premises in respect of which the nuisance exists, commits an offence against this Act.

  2. Whenever, after any conviction of any offence under this section, the person convicted can lawfully abate the nuisance and fails or neglects, or continues to fail or neglect, to do so, he shall be deemed to have committed a further offence and shall be liable therefor under subsection (1).