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LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1956
SECTION 63 (Bylaws as to arti ficial 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. Bylaws which were made by the Council and confirmed by
the Minister on the 28th March, 1958 came into operation on the 1st May, 1958,
and require the occupier of every tenement house and the owner of every block
of flats to provide adequate artificial lighting for 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;
(b) from one hour before sunset until sunrise during the months of
October, November, December, January, February and March; and
(c) at other times as and when necessary if adequate means of
natural lighting are not provided.
The Bylaws provide that any person offending against them shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding FIVE POUNDS, and in the case of a
continuing offence to a further fine not exceeding FORTY SHILLINGS for each
day during which the offence continues after conviction.
Under the provisions of these Bylaws one informal and one formal notice
in respect of a tenement house, and one formal notice in respect of a block
of flats were served.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1959
SECTIONS 22 and 23 of this Act (Control of Movable Dwellings) which will
come into operation on the 1st October, 1960, make it an offence after that
date for any person to place or allow to be placed on any land caravans or
similar movable dwellings (with certain exceptions) unless a licence to use
the land for that purpose has been obtained from the borough council. The
borough council may attach to any licence granted, such conditions as they
think fit with respect to -
(a) the number and classes of movable dwellings which may be kept
at the same time on land to which the licence relates;
(b) the space to be kept free between any such dwellings;
(c) water supply;
(d) fire protection arrangements;
(e) securing sanitary conditions; and
(f) the prevention of nuisance from noise.
Licences may be granted for such period (not exceeding three years) as the
Council may think fit.
Before granting a licence the borough council must consult the town
planning authority and give notice of its intention by advertising in a local
newspaper and by exhibiting a copy of the notice on the land in respect of
which the licence is desired and must consider any objections made to the
proposal. There is an appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction against a
refusal by the borough council to grant a licence.
For the purposes of these sections
"movable dwelling" includes-
(a) a structure capable of being moved from place to place;
and
(b) a vehicle or other conveyance (whether on wheels or not);
used or intended to be used (whether temporarily or otherwise) for
the purpose of human habitation: