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Government Board, fail to make such regulations, or such
regulations as the Board approve, the Board may themselves
make them, and the regulations so made shall have effect as
if they had been made by the local authority with the
consent of the Board :
Provided that a closing order made in respect of a room to
which this subsection applies shall not prevent the room being
used for purposes other than those of a sleeping place; and that,
if the occupier of the room after notice of an order has been
served upon him fails to comply with the order, an order to comply
therewith may, on summary conviction, be made against him.
This subsection shall not come into operation until the first
day of July nineteen hundred and ten, and a closing order mads in
respect of any room to which this subsection applies shall not be
treated as a closing order in respect of a dwelling-house for the
purposes of the next succeeding section.
Order for demolition.
18.—(1) Where a closing order in respect of any dwellinghouse
has remained operative for a period of three months, the
local authority shall take into consideration the question of the
demolition of the dwelling-house, and shall give every owner of
the dwelling-house notice of the time (being some time not less
than one month after the service of the notice) and place at
which the question will be considered, and any owner of the
dwelling-house shall be entitled to be heard when the question
is so taken into consideration.
(2) If upon any such consideration the local authority are
of opinion that the dwelling-house has not been rendered fit for
human habitation, and that the necessary steps are not being
taken with all due diligence to render it so fit, or that the
continuance of any building, being or being part of the dwellinghouse,
is a nuisance or dangerous or injurious to the health of
the public or of the inhabitants of the neighbouring dwellinghouses,
they shall order the demolition of the building.
(3) If any owner undertakes to execute forthwith the works
necessary to render the dwelling-house fit for human habitation,
and the local authority consider that it can be so rendered fit for
human habitation, the local authority may, if they think fit,