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(b) Does not comply with such regulations as the Local Authority,
with the consent of the Local Government
Board may prescribe for securing the proper ventilation
and lighting of such rooms and the protection thereof
against dampness, effluvia or exhalation. Provided
that if the Local Authority, after being required to do
so by the Local Government Board, fail to make such
regulations or such regulations as the Board approve,
the Board may themselves make them, and the regulations
so made shall have effect as if they had been
made by the Local Authority with the consent of the
Board.
Provided that a Closing Order made in respect of a room
to which this Sub-section applies shall not prevent the room
being used for purposes other than those of a sleeping place; and
that, if the occupier of the room, after notice of an Order has
been served upon him, fails to comply with the Order, an Order
to comply therewith may, on summary conviction, be made
against him.
Now, therefore, we, the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of
the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea, being the Local Authority
for the said Metropolitan Borough, hereby prescribe the following
regulations with which a room habitually used as a sleeping place,
the surface of the floor of which is more than three feet below the
surface of the part of the street or ground adjoining or nearest to the
room, shall comply, namely:—
(a) Such room shall in every part thereof have at least three
feet of its height above the level of the surface of the
street or ground adjoining or nearest to such room.
Provided that if the width of the area hereinafter
mentioned is not less than the height of the room from
the floor to the said surface or is not less than six feet,
the eight of the room above such surface may be
less than three feet, but not in any case less than one
foot.
(b) Every wall of such room shall be constructed with a proper
damp-proof course, and, if in contact with the soil, shall
be effectually protected against dampness from that
soil by means of a vertical damp-proof course, or
otherwise.
(c) There shall be outside of and adjoining such room and
extending along the entire frontage thereof and open
upwards from six inches below the level of the floor