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registered, not resident in or near to any registered house
shall be obliged to appoint as his agent some person resident
in or near to the house, to see that the aforegoing
regulations are strictly carried out in such house, and to
reinstate any defects that from time to time may occur
therein. But the person registered shall be responsible
for any act or default of his agent in the execution of these
regulations.
16.—Every registered house, and every room thereof,
shall be open to the Medical Officer of Health, and any
other Officer of the Board appointed for the inspection
thereof, between the hours of Eight o'Clock a m. and Ten
o'Clock p.m. When there is reason to believe that the
regulations respecting the number of persons to be
accommodated in such house or room are infringed, then
it shall be lawful for any two such Officers acting together
to visit any house or room between the hours of Ten p.m.
and Eight a.m.
17.—Any person registered to let, or who shall let any
house or part of a house in lodgings, or to be occupied
by members of more than one family, who shall violate
or fail to carry out any of the above regulations, shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings, for
any one offence, with an additional penalty not exceeding
Twenty Shillings for every day during which a default in
obeying such regulations shall continue.
The penalties from time to time inflicted under
the above Regulations shall go to the Nuisance Authority,
and shall be accounted for by them as receipts under the
Act of Parliament.