Clause 19

If all and any sums payable by or recoverable from the owner in respect of costs and expenses incurred by the Commissioner in or about the execution of any work which are under this Act recoverable from the owner of any premises are not paid by the owner within 14 days after demand, such sums may be reported to a Magistrate’s Court or a District Court and recovered in the same manner as if it were a fine imposed by a Magistrate’s Court or a District Court, as the case may be.

An appeal shall lie to the High Court from any decision of a Magistrate’s Court or a District Court under this section, and the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68] shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to all such appeals.

The person liable to pay any sum under subsection (1) shall be the owner at the time when the work was completed.

Any occupier who, when requested by or on behalf of the Commissioner to state the name of the owner of the premises, refuses or wilfully omits to disclose or wilfully mis-states the same shall, unless he shows cause to the satisfaction of a Magistrate’s Court or a District Court for his refusal or mis-statement, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.