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Part I.
Housing of the Working Classes.
Facilities for Acquisition of Lands and other Purposes of the
Housing Acts.
Part III. of the principal Act to take effect without adoption.
53 & 54 Vict. c. 70.
1. Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1890 (in this Part of this Act referred to as the principal Act),
shall, after the commencement of this Act, extend to and take effect
in every urban or rural district, or other place for which it has not
been adopted, as if it had been so adopted.
Powers of enforcing Execution of Housing Acts.
Power of Local Government Board.
10.—(1) Where a complaint is made to the Local Government
Board—
(c) as respects the area of any other local authority
by four inhabitant householders of the area;
that the local authority have failed to exereise their powers under
Part II. or Part III. of the principal Act in cases where those
powers ought to have been exercised, the Board may cause a
public local inquiry to be held, and if, after holding such an inquiry,
the Board are satisfied that there has been such a failure on the
part of the local authority, the Board may declare the authority to
be in default, and may make an order directing that authority,
within a time limited by the order, to carry out such works and do
such other things as may be mentioned in the order for the purpose
of remedying the default.
Contracts by Landlord.
Extension of Section 75 of the principal Act.
14. In any contract made after the passing of this Act for
letting for habitation a house or part of a house at a rent not
exceeding—