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SECTION 15 (Power to require execution of works of other descrip tions) replaces
Section 36 of the Housing Act, 1957. which is repealed, and relates to dwellings
which, having regard to the number of individuals or households accommodated in
the premises, are defective with respect to any of the following:-
Natural and artificial lighting,
Ventilation,
Water supply,
Personal washing facilities,
Drainage and sanitary conveniences.
Facilities for the storage, preparation and cooking of food,
and for the disposal of waste water, or
Installations for space heating or for the use of space heating
appliances,
and enables a local authority to require by notice the execution of works to
render the premises reasonably suitable for such occupation.
SECTION 16 (Provision of means of escape from fire) enables a local authority
to serve a notice requiring the execution of such works as will provide such
means of escape from fire as the local authority consider necessary.
SECTION 17 (Right of appeal against notice requiring execution of works) gives
to the person upon whom a notice is served under either Section 15 or Section
16 the right of appeal to a county court within 21 days from the date of the
service of the notice.
SECTION 18 (Carrying out of works by local authority) enables a local authority
to carry out in default the works required by a notice served under Sections 14,
15 or 16
SECTION 19 (Directions to prevent or reduce overcrowding in houses in multiple
occupation) enables a local authority with a view to preventing the occurrence
of, or remedying, a state of affairs calling for the service of a notice, or a
further notice under Section 15, to fix a limit for the maximum number of
individuals who may occupy a house or part of a house in its existing condition,
and give a direction applying that limit to the house.
SECTION 20 (Offences under s,90 of principal Act) increases the penalty for an
offence under Section 90 of the 1957 Act (which relates to overcrowding in
houses let in lodgings) to £20 for a first offence and £100 or 3 months imprisonment,
or both, for subsequent offences.
SECTION 21 (Application of s.s. 12 to 15 to certain buildings comprising separate
dwellings), applies Sections 12 and 15 of this Act to a building which is not a
house but comprises separate dwellings (e.g. tenement buildings), two or more
of which -
(a) do not have a sanitary convenience and personal washing facilties
accessible only to those living in the dwelling, and
(b) are wholly or partly let in lodgings or occupied by members of more
than one family.
SECTION 22 (Registers of houses in multiple occup ation) will enable a local
authority at any time not less than three years from the commencement of the
Act, to make and submit to the Minister for confirmation, a scheme authorising
the authority to compile and maintain a register for their area of houses or
parts of houses in multiple occupation, and of buildings which comprise separate
dwellings, two or more of which do not have a sanitary convenience and personal
washing facilities accessible only to those living in the dwelling.