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Regulations affecting both Person Letting Lodgings
and Landlord.
16.—Whenever the Vestry shall require it, any registered
letter of lodgings, or any registered landlord of a
lodging-house, whose dwelling house is not near to the
house, or houses, of which he is the registered letter or
landlord, shall appoint as his agent some person resident
in or near such house or houses, to see that the foregoing
Regulations (as far as they relate to his duties as letter of
lodgings or landlord) are strictly carried out in regard to
such house or houses. But the registered person shall be
responsible for any act or default of his agent in the
execution of these Regulations.
17.—Any registered person who shall violate or fail
to carry out any of the above Regulations shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings for any one
offence, and to an additional penalty not exceeding Twenty
Shillings for every day during which a default in obeying
such Regulations shall continue.