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(1) The erection or use of a house containing several tenements in which
the tenements are placed back.to.back, if 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
habitable rooms in every tenement; and
(2) Houses abutting on any streets the plans of which have been approved
by the local authority before the 1st May, 1909, in any borough or
district where on the 3rd of December, 1909, any local Act or by.laws
were in force permitting the erection of back.to.back houses.
Amendment of definitions for purposes of Part II. of the principal Act.
Under Section 49 (1) of the new Act the definition of the term "dwelling
house" in Section 29 of the principal Act is amended by the omission of the
words "means any inhabited building and." Consequently a house would not
cease to be a dwelling house within the definition because it ceased to be
inhabited.
Again, the term "owner" is enlarged by Section 49 (2) so as to include, in
addition to the definition given by the Lands Clauses Acts, all lessees or
mortgagees of any premises required to be dealt with under Part I. of the new
Act, except persons holding or entitled to the rents and profits of the premises
under a lease of which the original term is less than 21 years.
§ 2—LOCAL ACTS.
(9 Edw. VII., Ch. cxxx.)
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1909.
Part III.—Accommodation for Storage of Food.
As to accommodation for storage of food in tenement houses.
16.—If at any time it appears to any Sanitary Authority that in any
tenement house within their district sufficient and suitable accommodation for
the storage of food is not provided for the use of each family occupying such
house on the storey or one of the storeys in which are situated the rooms or
lodgings in the separate occupation of such family, the sanitary authority
may, if the provision of such accommodation is practicable, cause notice to be
served on the owner of such house requiring him within such reasonable
time as may be specified in the notice to provide sufficient and suitable
accommodation for the purpose aforesaid, and any owner failiug to comply
with such requirement within the period prescribed in the notice shall be liable
on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and to a
daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
Provided that this section shall not apply to any tenement house used or
occupied as such before the passing of this Act.