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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
BYELAWS.
Made by the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of
Shoreditch with respect to Houses let in Lodgings or occupied by Members of more
than one Family in the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
1. Throughout these Byelaws the expression "the Council" means the Mayor,
Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
The expression "Byelaws of 1894" means the byelaws with respect to Houses let
in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family which were made
by the Vestry of the Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, on the 15th day of
May, 1894, and were confirmed by the Local Government Board on the 20th
day of July, 1894, and words and expressions which are defined in the byelaws
of 1894 shall in these byelaws have the same meaning as in the byelaws
of 1894.
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the byelaws of 1894, proceedings shall
not be taken against the landlord of a lodging house for an offence against any of the
byelaws numbered 3 (three), 4 (four), 9 (nine), 10 (ten), 14 (fourteen), 15 (fifteen), 16
(sixteen), and 17 (seventeen), unless, and until the landlord after 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 byelaws has failed to comply with the byelaws
within the time so specified.
In pursuance of a resolution passed by the Sanitary Authority at their Meeting on
the 4th day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five, the Common Seal
of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, was hereunto
affixed this 4th day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five, in the presence
of
H. BUSBY BIRD,
Mayor.
H. MANSFIELD ROBINSON,
Town Clerk.
Allowed by the Local Government Board
this fifth day of August, 1905.
S. B. PROVIS,
Secretary,
Acting on behalf of the said Board
under the authority of their General
Order, dated the twenty-sixth day of
May, 1877.