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BY-LAWS AS TO HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS OR TO
MEMBERS OF MORE THAN ONE FAMILY.
On the 26th June, 1907, after considering a Report of the Medical Officer
of Health, dated 13th March, upon the By-laws for Houses Let in Lodgings,
and upon the recommendation of the Public Health Committee the Borough
Council resolved to revise the By-laws as requested by the Local Government
Board in the following manner—
(a) That clause 19 of the model by-laws of the Local Government
Board, which is as follows, be added to the Council's by-laws on
the subject, viz.:—
"Where a duty imposed upon or a prohibition applied to
"the landlord of a lodging house is by any by-law expressly
"imposed or applied, subject to the provisions of these by-laws,
"proceedings shall not be taken against the landlord for an
"offence against the by-law unless and until the landlord, after
"the service upon him of a notice in writing by the Council,
"requiring him within such reasonable time as is specified in the
"notice to comply with the by-law within the time so specified."
(b) That amendments in definitions and other clauses substituting
Metropolitan Borough for Parish, Metropolitan Borough Council
for Vestry, Public Health Committee for Health Committee, and
Public Health Department for Health Department, and any other
consequential amendment (necessary, be made in the Council's
by-laws.
(c) That the following addition be made to the existing by-law 3 of the
Council's by-laws:—
Provided that in either of the following cases a tenement house
shall be exempt from the operation of these by-laws;
that is to say:—
(1) Where the landlord resides upon the premises.
(2) Where the number of separate dwellings in which
the house is sub-let does not exceed one-third
of the total number of habitable rooms in the
house.
Provided furthermore that no tenement house in which it may
be found that an underground dwelling is illegally
occupied shall be exempted from registration under these
by-laws.
(d) That the Council's by-laws on the subject, after amendment as
recommended above, be submitted to the Local Government Board
for approval.
Further, with reference, to the removal of houses from the Register,
(e) That upon application being made by the owner for the removal of
a house from the Register, such house may be removed therefrom,
provided the Public Health Committee arc satisfied as to its
sanitary condition.