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spection of its district, with a view to ascertain whether
any dwelling houses therein are in a state so dangerous or
injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation,
and, for that purpose, to comply with such Regulations
and to keep such Records as may be prescribed by the
Board. The Board has issued an Order, dated 2nd 'September,
1910, making Regulations with respect to the
manner in which inspection of the district, under this section,
is to be made and with respect to the Records to be
kept of such inspection, and the Order appears to render
legal, and to make compulsory, such inspections as may
be found necessary in cases of houses to be closed under
section 17 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909.
The details of the requirements to be entered up in the
Records are somewhat different from those tabulated in
connection with the ordinary house-to-house inspections.
Murphy Street and James and Canterbury Places were
house-to-house inspected with a view to action being taken
under the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, viz. :
the making of a Closing Order or Orders under Section 17,
but the houses were found not to be in such a condition as
to be able to be so condemned. Notices were, consequently,
served under the Public Health Act.
Further, action could not be taken under sections 14 and
15 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, for a
technical reason. Section 14 states that in the case of a
house or part of a house let for habitation at a rent not
exceeding £40 per annum, there shall be implied a condition
that the house is, at the commencement of the
holding, in all respects fit for human habitation, except in
the case of a house, or part of a house, that is let for a
term of not less than three years upon the terms that it be
put by the lessee into a condition reasonably fit for occupation,
and that the lease is not terminable at the option of
either party before the expiration of that term, but this
condition has reference only to contracts made after the