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rates—£8 for the Poor Rate and £10 for the General
District Rate—by Sect. 3 of the Poor Rate Assessment
and Collection Act, 1869. Now in such a District as
Willesden, in any contract for letting for habitation
a house or part of a house at a rent not exceeding
twenty-six pounds, there shall bo implied a condition
that the house is at the commencement of the holding
in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation.
The undertaking is further extended to imply
that the house shall during the holding be kept by
the landlord in all respects reasonably fit for human
habitation. If, after viewing the state and condition
of any house to which this applies, it appears to the
Local Authority that the undertaking is not complied
with, the Local Authority shall require the landlord
within a reasonable time to execute such works as
the Local Authority shall specify to make the house
in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation.
In default of compliance with the notice within the
time specified, and unless the landlord has notified
the Local Authority that he has closed the house,
the Local Authority may do the work required to be
done, and recover the expenses incurred as a civil