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PUBLIC HEALTH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1962 - SECT 7

Limitation of liability of certain owners.

7.(1) Where a [district council] claim to recover any expenses under any
provision of the Public Health Acts (Northern Ireland), 1878 to 1961 from a
person as being the owner of the premises in respect of which the expenses
were incurred and that person proves that he

(a)is receiving the rent of those premises merely as agent or trustee for some
other person; and

(b)has not, and since the date of the service on him of a demand for payment
has not had, in his hands on behalf of that other person sufficient money to
discharge the whole demand of the [council];

[(2) Where a person to whom this section applies has paid to the Department of
Finance, out of money he has or has had in his hands on behalf of the person
for whom he acts as agent or trustee, any sum in respect of rates claimed by
the Department to be recoverable from him by it under the Rates (Northern
Ireland) Order 1977, that sum shall be deemed for the purposes of this section
not to have been in his hands.]

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