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Prohibition of back-to-back houses.
43. Notwithstanding anything in any local Act or bye-law in
force in any borough or district, it shall not be lawful to erect any
back to-back houses intended to be used as dwellings for the
working classes, and any such house commenced to be erected
after the passing of this Act shall be deemed to be unfit for
human habitation for the purposes of the provisions of the Housing
Acts.
Provided that nothing in this section—
(a) shall prevent the erection or use of a house containing
several tenements in which the tenements are placed
back to back, if the medical officer of health for the district
certifies that the several tenements are so constructed and
arranged as to secure effective ventilation of all habitable
rooms in every tenement; or
(b) shall apply to houses abutting on any streets the
plans whereof have been approved by the local authority
before the first day of May nineteen hundred and nine, in
any borough or district in which, at the passing of this Act,
any local Act or bye-laws are in force permitting the erection
of back-to-back houses.
Definitions.
Provisions of this Part to be deemed to be part of the
appropriate Part of the principal Act.
47.—(1) Any provisions of this Act which supersede or amend
any provisions of the principal Act shall be deemed to be part of
that Part of the principal Act in which the provisions superseded
or amended are contained.
(2) Any reference in the Housing Acts to a closing order or to
an order for] the demolition of a building shall be construed as a
reference to a closing order or an order of demolition under this
Act.
Amendment of definitions in Part I of the principal Act.
48. The expression "street" shall, unless the context