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HOUSING ACT, 1957
During the year the following actions were taken:
Section 5 (Prohibition of back to back houses)
No. of certificates issued 2
Section 9 (Repair of insanitary houses)
Inspections 11
Visits 57
Notices served 5
Section 16 (Individual unfit houses)
Inspections, Visits and Re-visits 1,259
Houses represented 14
Undertakings accepted 1
Undertakings cancelled upon completion of work 1
Section 17 (Individual unfit houses)
Closing Orders made 7
Demolition Orders made 1
Houses demolished 78
Section 18 (Parts of buildings including basement rooms)
Inspection, Visits and Revisits
(a) Basement Rooms 1,713
(b) Other parts of buildings 96
Representations made
(a) Basement Rooms 16
(b) Other parts of buildings 10
Closing Orders
(a) Basement rooms 14
(b) Other parts of buildings 11
Undertakings accepted (Basement Rooms) 1
Undertakings cancelled or part cancelled upon completion
of work (basement rooms 3-other parts 2) 5
Section 24 (Individual Unfit houses)
Demolition Orders revoked 3
Section 27 Closing Orders determined or part-determined upon completion
of work in respect of -
(a) Whole houses 24
(b) Basement rooms 28
(c) Other parts of buildings 3
Section 90 (Houses let in lodgings - overcrowding)
Inspections and Revisits 48
Reports to Committee 2
Overcrowding abated
Section 42 (Clearance Areas)
Inspections 95
Re-visits 315
Housing Consolidated Amencknent Regulations, 1932
(House to House Inspecticns)
Number of inspections 43