View report page

190
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1909,
9 Edw. VII., ch. cxxx. Part III.—Accommodation for
Storage of Food.
16. If at any time it appears to any sanitary authority that in any
tenement house within their district sufficient and suitable accommodation
for the storage of food is not provided for the use of each family occupying
such house on the storey or one of the storeys in which are situate the
rooms or lodgings in the separate occupation of such family, the sanitary
authority may, if the provision of such accommodation is practisable,
cause notice to be served on the owner of such house requiring him, within
such reasonable time as may be specified in the notice, to provide sufficient
and suitable accommodation for the purpose aforesaid, and any owner
failing to comply with such requirement within the period prescribed in
the notice shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not
exceeding forty shillings and to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty
shillings.
Provided that this Section shall not apply to any tenement house used
or occupied as such before the passing of this Act.
17. Application of certain provisions of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, and enforcement of this part of the Act (i.e., the provisions
contained in Sections 101, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 121, 122, 124, 125,127,
128, 133 and 135 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.)
18. Power to sanitary authorities, etc., to enter.
19. Power to owner notwithstanding provisions of lease to enter.
(See page 178, power to provide sanitary conveniences under
Section 66.)