Section 19 Provision in case Local Authority themselves execute the Works.

Where the Local Authority themselves execute the Works, they may apply to the Court of Quarter Sessions having Jurisdiction over the Place of which they are the Local Authority for an Order charging on the Premises on which the Works have been executed the Amount of all Costs, Charges, and Expenses that have been incurred by such Authority in or about the Execution of such Works, including the Costs of obtaining the Order; and the Court of Quarter Sessions, when satisfied of the Amount so expended, shall make an Order accordingly, charging on the Premises the Amount of such Costs, Charges, and Expenses, together with Interest at the Rate of Four Pounds per Cent, per Annum, and such Order shall he filed and recorded in manner herein-after mentioned, and thereupon the Amount of Principal and Interest thereby secured shall be a Charge on the House, bearing Interest at Pour per Centum, and having Priority over all other Estates, Incumbrances, and Interests whatsoever, and the Local Authority shall, for the Purpose of obtaining Satisfaction of the Monies so charged, or of any Interest thereon, be deemed to be a Mortgagee of an absolute Estate in the House, and shall be invested with all the Powers conferred on Mortgagees by Part II. of the Act of the Session of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and forty-five, and in Scotland such Order shall be recorded in the appropriate Register of Sasines.