# Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, Section 78: Commissioners may sell the materials, restoring to the owner the overplus arising from the sale.


If any such house or building as aforesaid, or any part of the same, be pulled down by virtue of the powers aforesaid, the commissioners may sell the materials thereof, or so much of the same as shall be pulled down, and apply the proceeds of such sale in payment of the expences incurred in respect of such house or building; and the commissioners shall restore any overplus arising from such sale to the owner of such house or building, on demand; nevertheless, the commissioners, although they sell such materials for the purposes aforesaid, shall have the same remedies for compelling the payment of so much of the said expences as may remain due after the application of the proceeds of such sale as are herein-before given to them for compelling the payment of the whole of the said expences.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/78 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-78
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