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TENEMENT HOUSES WATER SUPPLY.*
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907.
7 Edw. 7, ch. clxxv.
78. For the purpose of Section 48 (provision as to house without
proper water supply) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, a tenement
house shall be deemed to be a house without a proper and sufficient
supply of water unless there shall be provided on the storey or one of the
storeys in which the rooms or lodgings in the separate occupation of each
family occupying such house are situate a sufficient provision for the
supply of water for domestic purposes:
Provided that with respect to any building existing and in use as a
tenement house at the passing of this Act this section shall not (a) come
into operation until the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred
and eight, or (b) apply where the storey or storeys on which a proper and
sufficient supply of water is not provided is or are a storey or storeys (i.)
constructed at a height exceeding that to which the Metropolitan "Water
Board may for the time being be required to furnish a supply of water for
domestic purposes, and (ii.) to which a supply of water for such purposes
is not at the passing of this Act being furnished by the said Board by
agreement:
Provided, also, that this section shall not apply to any tenement
house in respect of which it can be shown that any such provision for the
supply of water as aforesaid is not reasonably necessary.
* See page (166) London County Council (General Powers) Bill, 1908, proposed
cooking accommodation in tenement houses.