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enactment, the receipts and expenditure in respect of that land
(including all costs in respect of the acquisition and laying out of the
land), and of any buildings erected thereon, may he treated as receipts
and expenditure under that Part or enactment, but shall be accounted
for under a separate head.
5.—(1) The local authority, if not a rural district council, with the
consent of the Local Government Board, and if a rural district council,
with the consent of the County Council, may lease any land acquired
by them under and for the purposes of Part III. of the Principal Act to
any lessee for the purpose, and under the condition that the lessee will
carry the Act into execution by building and maintaining on the land
lodging-houses within the meaning of the Act; and the local authority
shall insert in every lease all necessary provisions for insuring the user
of the land and buildings for lodging-houses within the meaning of the
Act, and in particular the local authority shall insert in any lease
provisions binding the lessee to build on the land as in the lease
prescribed, and to maintain and repair the buildings, and securing the
use of the buildings exclusively as lodging-houses within the meaning
of the Act, and prohibiting any addition to, or alteration of, the character
of the buildings without the consent of the local authority; and also a
provision for the re-entry of the local authority on the land on the
breach of any of the terms of the lease; and every deed or instrument
of demise of the land or buildings shall be endorsed with notice of this
sub-section.
Provided that in the case of a council in London, the consent of a
Secretary of State shall be substituted for the consent of the Local
Government Board.
(2) Sections 61 and 62 of the Principal Act shall not extend to any lodginghouse
to which this section applies.
7.—Where land is acquired under Part III. of the Principal Act
otherwise than by agreement, any question as to the amount of
compensation which may arise shall, in default of agreement, be
determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed and removable by the
Local Government Board, and sub-sections (5), (7), (8), (10) and (11) of
section forty-one of the Act shall apply as in the case of an arbitration
under that section. Provided that, in the case of a council in London,
a Secretary of State shall be substituted for the Local Government
Board.
IMPROVEMENTS SINCE THE ROYAL COMMISSION.
Before concluding this part of the present Eeport something may
be said with regard to the improvements which have taken place as
a result of the Acts to which sufficient reference has now been made,
and which in their turn arose from the conclusions of the Royal
Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes. Those