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55. —Whenever in consequence of proceedings taken by the Council
against any person in respect of any offence in connection with a
common lodging-house in the County, a pecuniary penalty or fine is
inflicted, the amount of such penalty or fine shall notwithstanding
anything in the Metropolitan Police Courts Act, 1839, or in any other
Act or Acts contained to the contrary be payable and paid to the
Council.
56.—Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, the provisions of
the Common Lodging-Houses Acts, 1851 and 1853, shall except so
far as the same are varied by or inconsistent with the provisions of
this part of this Act continue to be of full force and effect, and the
provisions of the said Acts with respect to a registered common
lodging-house keeper shall except so far as the same are varied by or
inconsistent with the provisions of this part of this Act shall apply to
a licensed common lodging-house keeper.
57.—Section 14 of the Common Lodging-Houses Act, 1851, and Section
11 of the Common Lodging-Houses Act, 1853, shall extend to offences
against any of the provisions of this part of this Act or any bye-laws
made thereunder so as to render the offenders liable to penalties or
imprisonment as in the said sections respectively mentioned.
REGULATIONS AS TO CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER,
AND PLAGUE.
On the 26th December, 1902, there appeared in the London Gazette an
Order of the Local Government Board dated 24th December, 1902, amending
the General Order of the 9th November, 1896, made under the Public Health
Act, 1875, the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Public Health Act,
1896. The amending Order extends Article 26 of the Regulations in the
following term:—
Article I.—The Regulations shall apply and have effect as if for Article 25
of the Regulations the following Article were substituted, that is to say:—
"Art. 25. The Master of every ship infected with Cholera, Yellow Fever,
"or Plague shall, when the ship is within three miles of the coast of
"any part of England or Wales, or is within the limits of a Port,
"cause to be hoisted—
"(i.) At the masthead or where it can be best seen, during the
"whole of the time between sunrise and sunset, a day
"signal, consisting of a large flag of yellow and black borne
"quarterly; or
"(ii.) At the peak or other conspicuous place where it can be
"best seen, and at a height of not less than twenty feet
"above the hull of the ship, during the whole of the time
"between sunset and sunrise, a night signal, consisting of
"three lights, which shall be arranged, at a distance of not
"less than six feet apart, in the form of an equilateral
"triangle, and of which the light at the apex of the triangle
"shall be white, and the other lights at the ends of the base
"of the triangle shall be red in colour.