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Sections 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29, are concerned with
amendments with respect to Improvement and Reconstruction
Schemes.
Sections 30 to 34 deal with amendments with respect to
financial matters.
Sec. 35. Provides that under certain circumstances Common
Lodging Houses occupied for the sole purpose of letting lodgings
to persons of the working classes at a charge of not exceeding
sixpence a night for each person shall be exempt from Inhabited
House Duty.
Sections 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 42, deal respectively with
the power of entry upon premises; the power of the Local Government
Board to obtain a report on any crowded area; joint action
by local authorities, appeals to the Local Government Board; sale
and disposal of dwellings; power to prescribe and dispense with
advertisements and notices; and publication of schemes or
order in the London Gazette.
Sec. 43. Prohibits the erection of any back to back houses
intended to be used as dwellings for the working classes.
Provided this section shall not apply to a house containing
several tenements in which the tenements are placed back to back,
if the Medical Officer of Health for the district certifies that the
several tenements are so constructed and arranged as to secure
effective ventilation of all habitable rooms in every tenement, or to
any houses abutting on any streets the plans whereof have been
approved by the local authority before the 1st May, 1909, in any
Borough or district in which at the passing of this Act back to
back houses may be lawfully erected.
Sec. 44. Gives power to the Local Government Board to
Tevoke unreasonable by-laws.