(1)If any court or yard appurtenant to, or any passage giving access to, a house is not so formed, flagged, asphalted, or paved, or is not provided with such works on, above, or below its surface, as to allow of the satisfactory drainage of its surface or subsoil to a proper outfall, the local authority may by notice require the owner of the house to execute all such works as may be necessary to remedy the defect.
The provisions of Part XII of this Act with respect to appeals against, and the enforcement of, notices requiring the execution of works shall apply in relation to any notice given under this subsection.
(2)The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply in relation to any court, yard or passage which is used in common by the occupiers of two or more houses, but is not a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large.
(3)Any byelaws made by a local authority, whether under section twenty-three of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, or under a local Act, with respect to the paving of yards and open spaces in connection with houses shall cease to have effect, and so much of any local Act as authorises the making of such byelaws is hereby repealed.