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in respect of the erection or use) of a house containing several
tenements in which the tenements are placed back to back, and the
Medical Officer of Health for the district certifies that the several
tenements are constructed and arranged so as to secure effective
ventilation of all the habitable rooms in every tenement.
Section 46 repeals Section 63 of the principal Act, which relates to
the disqualification of tenants of lodging houses on receiving poor
relief. Increased powers of entry are given on giving 24 hours' notice
to the occupier and to the owner. An authority for entry given by the
Council must be in writing and must state the particular purpose or
purposes for which the entry is authorised.
The following are the purposes for which entry may be authorised
under the Section:—
(1) Survey or valuation—in the case of houses, premises, or
buildings which the local authority are authorised to
purchase compulsorily under the Housing Acts ; and
(2) Survey and examination—in the case of any dwelling-house
in respect of which a closing order or an order for demolition
has been made; or
(3) Survey and examination—where it appears to the authority
or Board that survey or examination is necessary, in order
to determine whether any powers under the Housing Acts
should be exercised in respect of any house, premises, or
buildings.
Notice may be given to the occupier, for the purposes of the
Section, by leaving a notice addressed to the occupier, without name or
further description, at the house, buildings, or premises in question.
By amendments of certain definitions in the principal Act, a house
does not cease to be a dwelling-house when it is no longer inhabited;
and the term "owner" includes all lessees or mortgagees of any
premises required to be dealt with under this part of the new Act,
except persons holding or entitled to the rents or profits of the premises
under a lease of which the original term is less than 21 years.
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