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40.—(1) It shall he lawful for the Council to make regulations with respect
to the mode of carrying into effect the provisions of this part of this Act.
(2) No such regulations shall be of any force or effect unless or until the
same shall have been submitted to and confirmed by the Local Government
Board.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1907.
Section 78.—As to Supply of Water in Tenement Houses.
Sec. 78.—For the purposes of section 48 (Provisions as to house without
proper water supply) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, a tenement
house shall be deemed to be a house without a proper and efficient supply of
water unless there shall be provided on the storey or one of the storeys in
which the rooms or lodgings in the separate occupation of each family
occupying such house are situate a sufficient provision for the supply of water
for domestic purposes:
Provided that with respect to any building existing and in use as a
tenement house at the passing of this Act this section shall not (a.) come into
operation until the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and
eight, or (b) apply where the only storey or storeys on which a proper and
sufficient supply of water is not provided is or are a storey or storeys (1)
constructed at a height exceeding that to which the Metropolitan Water
Board may for the time being be required to furnish a supply of water for
domestic purposes, and (2) to which a supply of water for such purposes is
not at the passing of this Act being furnished by the said Board byagreement
:
Provided also that this section shall not apply to any tenement house in
respect of which it can be shown that any such provision for the supply of
water as aforesaid is not reasonably necessary.
Section 3.—Interpretation of Terms. (2) in Part XII.
"Tenement house" means any house occupied by any person of the
working class which is wholly or partially- let in lodgings or which is occupied
by members of more than one family:
"Working class" has the same meaning as in the schedule to the Housing
of the Working Classes Act, 1903.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1903.
Schedule (12) (e).—The expression "working class" includes mechanics,
artisans, labourers, and others working for wages; hawkers, costermongers,
persons not working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft
without employing others, except members of their own family, and persons
other than domestic servants whose income in any case does not exceed an
average of thirty shillings a week, and the families of any such persons who
may be residing with them.