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SANITARY LEGISLATION.
Housing of the Working Classes Acl, 1903.
On page 111 Section 8 of the Housing of the Work'ng Classes
Act, 1903, has been referred to.
By Section 9 when houses are demolished under the Act, and
the sale of the materials fails to cover the cost of the demolition,
the balance can be recovered from the owner as a civil debt.
Section 1 raises the maximum period for repayment of loans
from 60 to 80 years, thus considerably reducing the annual charge
on the rates of a re-housing scheme; and at the same time excludes
loans raised for the purpose of re-housing from the general limitations
imposed, with regard to the total rateable value and total loans
outstanding.
Section 3 imposes the obligation on any authority, or person
acquiring land under the Housing Acts on which there are workmen's
dwellings occupied by 30 or more persons belonging to the
working classes, not to enter on such dwellings until the Local
Government Board have either approved of a Housing Scheme, or
decided that the scheme is not necessary.
There is a schedule at the end of the Act which sets out in
considerable detail various provisions in relation of the making,
enforcement, and modification of such schemes.
Section 4 enables the Local Government Board to order a scheme
to be made, and in case of failure to make such scheme, the order
may be enforced by a mandamus.
Section 10 gives a speedy way of recovering possession of houses
from occupying tenants in pursuance of " Closing Orders."