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The expression "house" includes schools and other buildings in which
persons are employed, and the curtilage of a house and any building or house
wholly or partly erected under statutory authority, but shall not include any
premises being a factory, workshop, or laundry to which "The Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901," applies or any building belonging to any Dock
Company situate within the Dock premises, and not used wholly or in part as a
dwelling-house or stable.
The expression "owner" means the person for the time being receiving the
rack-rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used whether
on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would
so receive the same if such premises were let at a rack-rent.
The expression "rack-rent" means rent which is not less than two-thirds of
the full value of the premises out of which the rent arises, and the full annual
value shall be taken to be the annual rent which a tenant might reasonably be
expected, taking one year with another, to pay for the premises if the tenant
undertook to pay all usual tenants' rates and taxes and tithe commutation rentcharge
(if any), and if the landlord undertook to bear the cost of the repairs
and insurance and other expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the premises
in a state to command such rent.
The expression "ash-pit" means any ash-pit, dust-bin, ash-tub, or other
receptacle for the deposit of ashes or refuse matter.
The expression "sanitary convenience" means any urinal, water-closet,
earth closet, or privy, or any similar convenience.
§ 3—ORDERS.
London County Council.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891. (54 & 55 Vic. Ch. 76).
Whereas by Section 19 sub-section 1 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, it is enacted as follows:—
If any person—
(a) Establishes anew the following businesses or any of them, that is to
say the business of blood boiler, bone boiler, manure manufacturer,
soap boiler, tallow melter, or knacker, or—
(b) Establishes anew without the sanction of the County Council the
following businesses or any of them, that is to say the business of
fellmonger, tripe boiler, slaughterer of cattle or horses, or any other
business which the County Council may declare by order confirmed,
by the Local Government Board and published in the "London
Gazette " to be an offensive business,
he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £50 in respect of the establishment
thereof, and any person carrying on the same when established shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding £50 for every day during which he so carries on the
same.