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Informal notices were served in respect of seventeen premises at which
contraventions of the relevant Bylaws were found, Legal proceedings taken
against the occupier of one hairdressers® premises for four contraventions of
the Bylaws resulted in penalties and costs being imposed.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1955
SECTION 27 (Remedying of defective premises). One notice was served in
respect of premises where it was considered that unreasonable delay in remedying
the defective state of the premises would be occasioned by following the
procedure prescribed under the Fifth Schedule to the Public Health (London)
Act, 1936, and the Council carried out the work in default-
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1956
SECTION 63 (Bylaws as to artificial lighting of common staircases). This
section empowers a Borough Council to make Bylaws with respect to tenement
houses and flats for the adequate artificial lighting of any common staircase
in such premises. The following Bylaws made by the Council were confirmed by
the Minister of Housing and Local Government on the 28th of March, 1958, and
came into operation on the 1st of May, 1958:-
1. In these byelaws. unless the context otherwise requires
"flat" means a separate and self-contained set of premises constructed foruse
for the purposes of a dwelling and forming part of a building from some other
part of which it is divided horizontally;
"block of flats" means a building which contains two or more flats and which
consists of three or more storeys;
"family" includes a single person living alone or a group of persons living
together as a single household;
"tenement houses" means a house which is not a block of flats and which is let
in lodgings or is occupied by members of more than one family;
"owner" means in relation to a flat or block of flats the person for the time
being entitled to receive the rack rent for his own benefit or as agent or
trustee for another person or the person who would be so entitled if the
dwellings were let at rack rents;
"occupier" means in relation to a tenement house the person for the time being
having control of the lettings of the separate tenements comprised in the
tenement house;
"common staircase" means any staircase the use of which is common to the
members of two or more families and includes any landing used in connection
therewith,
2 These byelaws apply to common staircases in tenement houses and blocks
of flats.
Provided that in the case of common staircases in tenement houses such
byelaws shall not apply until after service by the Borough Council on the
occupier thereof of a notice in writing requiring such occupier to provide and
maintain adequate artificial lighting of common staircases therein,
3 The occupier of every tenement house to which these byelaws apply and the
owner of every block of flats shall provide and maintain adequate means for the
artificial lighting of all common staircases within every such tenement house
or block of flats and such artificial lighting shall be by means of either gas
or electricity-
4, The occupier of every tenement house to which these byelaws apply and the
owner of every block of flats shall provide adequate artificial lighting for
all common staircases-
(a) from half an hour before sunset until half an hour before sunrise
during the months of April, May June, July, August and September;