{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artizans-and-labourers-dwellings-act-1868/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artizans-and-labourers-dwellings-act-1868/section-23.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/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Owner instead of effecting Improvements may take down Premises.",
  "text": "If the Order he that the Premises require Improvement, the Owner, including therein the Owner of the First Estate of Inheritance, if he think fit, may, instead of effecting the Works required by the Plan and Specification, take down the Premises; but in every such Case, and also in the event of the Owner desiring to retain the Site of the Premises required by the Order to be totally demolished, no House or other Building or Erection shall be erected on all or any Part of the Site of the Premises so taken down which shall be injurious to Health; and the Local Authority may at any Time make an Order upon the Owner to abate or alter the said House, Building, or Erection, as the Case may require; and in the event of Noncompliance with such Order the Local Authority may, at the Expense of the Owner thereof, abate or alter any House or other Building or Erection at any Time wholly or partly erected contrary to the Provisions of this Section.",
  "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/23",
    "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."
}