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The Vestry has passed a resolution that the Medical Officer of Health carry out
the provisions of sec. 26, sub-sec. 2 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890 ns
part of his duties.
The following is a copy of the sub-section referred to:—
"The Assessment to Inhabited House Duty of any house originally built or adapted
by additions or alterations, and used for the sole purpose of providing separate dwellings
for persons at rents not exceeding for each dwelling the rate of seven shillings and
sixpence a week, and occupied only by persons paying such rents, shall be discharged
by the said Commissioners, provided that a certificate of the Medical Officer of Health
for the district in which the house is situate, or other medical practitioner appointed as
hereinafter provided, shall be produced to them to the effect that the house is so
constructed as to afford suitable accommodation for each of the families or persons
inhabiting it, and that due provision is made for their sanitary requirements.
"The Medical Officer of Health of a district on request by the person who would be
liable to pay the house duty on any house in the district, if the duty were not
discharged as aforesaid, shall examine the house for the purpose of ascertaining whether
such a certificate can properly be given, and if the house be constructed so as to afford
such accommodation, and due provision be made as aforesaid, shall certify the same
accordingly; provided that the authority, if they are of opinion that the duties which
would devolve on the Medical Officer of Health under this section could not be performed
by him without interference with the due performance of his ordinary duties, may appoint
some other legally qualified medical practitioner having the qualification required for
office of Medical Officer of Health of the district to make such examinations and give
such certificates as aforesaid."
Application having been made to the Vestry by Messrs. E. Wells & Son for
permission to enclose the piece of ground forming the roadway to their premises, Oak
Cottage, Clarence Place, by removing their gates to the corner of Oak Place, the Vestry
sanctioned the same, subject to Messrs. Wells & Son obtaining the written consent of