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1891, with respect to houses or parts of houses which are let in lodgings
or occupied by members of more than one family shall, in the case
of houses intended for the working classes, extend to the making and
enforcing of bye-laws imposing any duty (being a duty which may
be imposed by the bye-laws and which involves the execution of work)
upon the owner within the meaning of the Act, in addition to or in
substitution for any other person having an interest in the premises'
and prescribing the circumstances and conditions under and subject to
which any such duty is to be discharged.
Sub-section 2 of this section empowered the owner or other person
to enter upon any part of the premises at all reasonable times for the
purpose of discharging any duty so imposed.
The Sanitary Authority is empowered, in sub-section 3, upon the
default of the owner or other person to execute any work he has been
required to execute under the bye-laws, to themselves execute the works
and recover the costs and expenses.
The Local Government Board forwarded a copy of their model
series of bye-laws, showing the alterations which the Board suggested
in cases where a Metropolitan Borough Council proposed to take
advantage of the provisions of the Act of 1909, and these amended
model bye-laws have been followed in framing our new bye-laws.
The definition terms contained in the draft bye-laws are those
contained in the Board's model bye-laws, and under these draft bye-laws
the owner of the premises within the meaning of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, is defined as the "landlord " of a lodging house.
The person who, under our old bye-laws, was regarded as the
"landlord" is now deemed to be the "owner," and by this re-arrangement
tenants, who under the old bye-laws were treated as landlords, will
no longer be called upon to execute works which the owner ought
reasonably to be called upon to do.
The draft bye-laws have been informally submitted to the Local
Govenment Board for their consideration.