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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-147",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/34",
  "legislation_title": "Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/147",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "147",
  "heading": "Commissioners, in default of owner or occupier, may execute works and recover expences.",
  "text": "Whenever, under the provisions of this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, any work of any kind is required to be executed by the owner or occupier of any house or lands, and default is made in the execution of such work, the commissioners may cause such work to be executed, and the expence incurred by the commissioners in respect thereof shall, except in the case in which such expences are herein-before directed to be defrayed by drainage rates, be repaid to them by the person by whom such work ought to have been executed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/147",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:02.753043+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."
}