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adequate number of suitable points to which electric or gas space
heating appliances with adequate ventilation where necessary can
be attached, or
(b) in each furnished letting there shall be provided an approved
fireplace capable of burning solid smokeless fuel or an adequate
number of space heating appliances.
(c) A system of central heating, providing adequate space
heating to each letting at all time s , will be deemed sufficient.
(d) Where an approved solid fuel fired appliance is in use,
adequate fuel storage facilities shall be provided and maintained.
9. - PROVISION OF MEANS OF ESCAPE FROM FIRE
A house or part of a house which is let in multiple occupation
shall be provided with such means of escape from fire as the
Council, after consultation with the London County Council,
considers necessary.
0. - REFUSE AND LITTER
There shall be provided and maintained in a house let in
multiple occupation an adequate number of suitable refuse containers
, so sited as to be readily accessible to the Council's
refuse collecting service.
1. - OVERCROWDING
(a) The maximum number of persons who may occupy any
room or rooms as a separate family, shall not exceed the
number permitted under the Housing Act, 195 7 (Section 77) and
the Sixth Schedule to that Act, That is to say -
A room or rooms occupied by a separate family shall be
deemed to be overcrowded when the number of persons sleeping
therein either -
(i) is such that any two of those persons, being persons
ten years old or more of opposite sexes, and not