A local authority may undertake the removal of trade refuse, or any kind of trade refuse, from premises within their district or from premises within any part of their district, and an authority who have so undertaken shall at the request of the occupier of any premises within the district, or, as the case may be, within that part of the district, remove from his premises any trade refuse to which their undertaking relates and, if without reasonable excuse they fail to do so within seven days after the request, the occupier may recover from them summarily as a civil debt the sum of five shillings for every day during which the default continues after the expiration of the said period.
A local authority shall make reasonable charges for removing trade refuse under this section.
Any question arising under this section as to what is to be considered as trade refuse, or trade refuse to which the authority's undertaking relates, or as to the reasonableness of any charges made by them, may, on the application of either party, be determined by a court of summary jurisdiction.