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and 64 (which contain provisions as to offences in relation to overcrowding)
and Section 60, which empowers the Minister to increase
the permitted number temporarily to meet exceptional conditions, and
Sub-section (2) of Section 6, which caused the byelaws relating to
the number of persons who may occupy Tenement Houses and to
the separation of the sexes therein to cease to have effect.
The standard of accommodation laid down by the Housing Act,
1936, for determining overcrowding consists of two parts. The first
aims at securing proper separation of the sexes; the second restricts
the number of persons who may occupy a house. The two requirements
are distinct from each other and both must be complied with.
A house is overcrowded if the accommodation is such that any
two persons, being ten years old or more, of opposite sexes and not
being persons living together as husband and wife, are obliged to
sleep in the same room.
The maximum number of persons, irrespective of sex, who may
be permitted to sleep in a house at one time is fixed in relation to
the number and sizes of the rooms in the house. The maximum permitted
number is ascertained by reference to the two following tables,
and is the number obtained by the application of Table I or Table II,
whichever is the less.