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2. The provisions of this section, as respects dwellings of an annual
value not exceeding forty pounds, shall not take effect with regard to
any such dwelling, unless such a certificate as to accommodation and
sanitary condition is produced to the General Commissioners as defined
by Section 5 of the Taxes Management Act, 1880, as is mentioned in
Sub-section 2 of Section 26 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act,
1890, and the provisions of that sub-section as to the certificate shall
apply for the purpose.
It is not now stated in the marginal note that the intention is to
encourage the erection of artizans' dwellings. The new Act includes
them, but it also brings in houses let in tenements or flats. The
Medical Officer is entitled to have information supplied to him that
houses he may be asked to examine for the purpose of granting a
certificate come under Sub-sections a and b; that is to say, that the
various tenements or flats are rated separately, and that their respective
annual value (rateable value for inhabited house duty) does not
exceed forty pounds.
D. Workshops.
Section 132 of the Factory and Workshops Act directs that "The
Medical Officer of Health of every District Council shall in his annual
report to them report specifically on the administration of this Act in
workshops and work-places and he shall send a copy of his annual
report or so much of it as deals with this subject to the Secretary of
State," and forms have been supplied giving a summary of what is
required. It is, however, a matter of difficulty to apportion work,
especially as workshops and dwellings are so intermingled.