{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artizans-and-labourers-dwellings-act-1868/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artizans-and-labourers-dwellings-act-1868/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/130",
  "legislation_title": "Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artizans-and-labourers-dwellings-act-1868",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Local Authority to require Owners to execute Works as in Specification.",
  "text": "The Owner on whom the Local Authority shall have imposed in the first instance the Duty of executing the Work shall, within Two Calendar Months thereafter, commence the Works as shown on the Plan and described in the Specification, and shall diligently proceed with and complete the same in conformity with the Specification to the Satisfaction of the Surveyor or Engineer appointed by the Local Authority; and if such Owner shall fail therein, the Local Authority shall require the Owner next in order as aforesaid to execute the said Works, and in case of his Default shall require the remaining Owners in their Order as aforesaid; and if all such Owners shall make default, the Local Authority shall, as the Case may seem to them to require, either order the Premises to be shut up or to be demolished, or may themselves execute the required Works in conformity with the Specification.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/130/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:04.492895+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}