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3.—The keeper of a lodging-house or a lodger therein shall not knowingly cause
or suffer a greater number of persons than will admit of a provision of four
hundred cubic feet of free air space for each person of an age exceeding ten years,
and of two hundred cubic feet of free air space for each person of an age not exceeding
ten years, to occupy, at any one time, as a sleeping apartment, a room
which is not used exclusively for that purpose, and which is under the control of such
keeper, or which has been let to such lodger, respectively, as the case may be.
4.—The keeper, or when there is no keeper the landlord, of a lodging-house,
within a period of fourteen days after he shall have been required by a notice in
writing signed by the Medical Officer of Health to the Council and duly served
upon or delivered to such keeper or landlord to supply the information necessary for
the registration of such house by the Council, shall himself, or by his agent duly
authorised in that behalf, sign and furnish to the Council a true statement of the
following particulars with respect to such house, that is to say—
(а) The total number of rooms in the house.
(b) The total number of rooms let in lodgings or occupied by members of
more than one family.
(c) The manner of use of each room.
(d) The number, age, and sex of the occupants of each room used for
sleeping.
(e) The Christian name and surname of the lodger.
(f) The amount of rent or charge per week payable by each lodger, and
(g) The Christian name and surname of the landlord of the lodging-house.
5.—In any case where the landlord of a lodging-house occupies or resides in any
part of the premises, or retains a general possession or control of the premises,
such landlord, and in any case where the landlord of a lodging-house does not occupy
or reside in any part of the premises, or retain a general possession or control of
the premises, every keeper or lodger who is entitled to havo or to exercise control
of the outer door of the premises shall, at all times when required by the Medical
Officer of Health, the Sanitary Inspector, or any other officer specially appointed or
authorised by the Council in that behalf, afford any such officer free access to the
interior of the premises for the purpose of inspection.
6.—Every lodger in a lodging-house shall, at all times when required by the
Medical Officer of Health, the Sanitary Inspector, or any other officer specially appointed
or authorised by the Council in that behalf, afford any such officer free
access for the purpose of inspection to the interior of any room or rooms which may
have been let to such lodger.