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Apart, however, from the question as to whether the
exemption clause is ultra vires, it is difficult to see what
purpose is served by such a clause, while its disadvantages are
obvious. In Battersea it has been found that landlords will
raise the rents of their dwellings in order to take them out of
the scope of the byelaws. No sanitary authority has as yet
displayed a tendency to register an excessively large number
of houses or to maintain a too rigorous supervision. The
tendency has rather been in the other direction, and will
probably continue to be so.
The Council, on March 26th, 1903, decided to submit to
the Local Government Board for comfirmation a revised set
of bye-laws containing no exemption clause, and these are now
being considered by the Board.