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(3) Where a closing order has been made as respects any dwelling-house,
the local authority shall serve notice of the order on every occupying
tenant of the dwelling-house, and within such period as is specified in
the notice, not being less than seven days after the service of the notice,
the order shall be obeyed by him, and he and his family shall cease to
inhabit the dwelling-house, and in default he shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding twenty shillings a day during his disobedience to the
order. Provided that the local authority may make to every such
tenant such reasonable allowance 011 account of his expenses in
removing, as may have been authorised by the Court making Ihe
closing order, which authority the Court is hereby authorised to give,
and the amount of the said allowance shall be a civil debt due from the
owner of the dwelling-house to the local authority, and shall be
recoverable summarily.
I11 1900 an Act was passed to amend Part III. of the Housing of
the Working Classes Act, 1890, with a view to adapting that part of
the Act to the necessities of Local Authorities for acquiring land or
lodging-houses for the working classes outside the boundary of their
own districts. It is therefore desirable that the chief sections of this
Act should be quoted in these introductory notes in order that the
reader may have before him the main particulars of the Housing
Act as they affect the policy of the Sanitary Authority for a central
metropolitan district. Section 1 of this amending Act is as
follows:—
(1) Where any Council, other than a rural district council, have adopted
Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (in this Act
referred to as " ihe Principal Act "), they may, for supplying the needs
of their district, establish or acquire lodging-houses for the working
classes under that Part outside their district.
Section 3.— (1) Any expenses incurred by the council of a metropolitan
borough under Part 111. of the Principal Act, whether within or
without the borough, shall be defrayed as part of the ordinary expenses
of the council, and in that Act the expressions "district," "local
authority," and "local rate" shall, for the purposes of Part III. of the
Act, include a metropolitan borough, the council of the borough, and
the general rate of the borough.
(2) Where the council of a metropolitan borough adopt Part III. of the
Principal Act, the power ot the council to borrow for the purposes of
that Part shall be exerciseable in the like manner and subject to the
like conditions as the power of the council to borrow for the purposes
of Part II. of that Act.
(4) Where land acquired by a council under Part 111. of the Principal Act
is appropriated for the purpose of re-housing persons displaced by the
council under the powers of any other Part of that Act or of any other