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Part I

Amendment of the Sewage Utilization Act, 1865. 2 " Sewer Authority " in this Act shall have the same Meaning Definition of

"Sewer

as it has in The Sewage Utilization Act, 1865. Authority:"

The Words " Lord Lieutenant in Council " shall mean in this Act « LordLieuthe Lord Lieutenant or any Chief Governor or Chief Governors in te Ireland acting by and with the Consent of Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland.

Council."

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This Part to be construed with

Power to Sewer Authority to form Committee of its own Members and others.

Formation of Special Drainage

District.

Utilization Act, 1865, and the Expression « The Sewage Utilization IS 1865," as used in this or any other Act of Parliament or ota Document, shall mean the said Sewage Utihzation Act, I860, as amended by this Act.

4. Anv Sewer Authority may from Time to Time, at any Meeting 4 Any Sewer . /p ' forra One or more Committee or

r1 ' CCsttht w. ohy Sown Members, or partly of its own Committees consist* SJ^J contributing to the Rate

MT To" of w"L the Expcnses incurred by such Authority are

°f-I \11Za in such other Manner as the Sewer Authority paid, and quaked mjmcb .0 . ^^ ^.^ of

Chairman U elected, « r rffte Cn« sha]]

Number be presented, of Tl ree Mem Be J ^

Meeting ** *• *™ by * ^ ^ ^ ^ rf !^S\fV^ Chairman shad have a Second or

^Proceedings of a Committee shal. not be invalidated by any Vaeaney or Vacancies amongst "= Membem ^ ^

on it by Act of Parliament or otherwise.

* Where the Sewer Authority of a District is a Vestry Select

5. \\ here tne Pprs0ns acting by virtue of any Act ot

Vestry, or other Body of Persons a^tmg y of &

Parliament, PrescriptumC'ust^m -^*« ^ ^^

VeStryea0l'f« *e Panose a^Twenty-one clear Days Notice T'?1 1 Race where Parochial Notices are usually affixed affixed to the laces ^ & Spccml

in its District, form an} 1 ait Drainage

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against Constitution of

Drainage District for the Purposes of the Sewage Utilization Act, and thereupon such Special Drainage District shall, for the Purposes of The Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, and the Powers therein conferred, be deemed to be a Parish in which a Rate is levied for the Maintenance of the Poor, and of which a Vestry is the Sewer Authority, subject, as respects any Meeting of the Inhabitants thereof in Vestry, to the Act of the Fifty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter Sixty-nine, and the Acts amending the same ; and any Officer or Officers who may from Time to Time be appointed by the Sewer Authority of such Special Drainage District for the Purpose shall have within that District all the Powers of levying a Rate for the Purpose of defraying the Expense of carrying the said Sewage Utilization Act into effect that they would have if such District were such Parish as aforesaid, and such Rate were a Rate for the Relief of the Poor, and they were duly appointed Overseers of such Parish.

6. Where the Sewer Authority of any Place has formed a Special Appeal Drainage District in pursuance of this Act, if any Number of the Inhabitants of such Place, not being less than Twenty, feel Special aggrieved by the Formation of such District, or desire any Modifi- Drainage cation in its Boundaries, they may, by Petition in Writing under

their Hands, bring their Case under the Consideration of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the said Secretary of State may after due Investigation annul the Formation of the Special Drainage District or modify its Boundaries as he thinks just.

7. A Copy of the Resolution of a Sewer Authority forming a Evidence of Special Drainage District shall be published by affixing a Notice Fol'matloii thereof to the Church Door of the Parish in which the District is Drainage situate, or of the adjoining Parish if there be no Church in the said District. Parish, and by advertising Notice thereof in some Newspaper published or circulating in the County in which such District is

situate ; and the Production of a Newspaper containing such Advertisement, or a Certificate under the Hand of the Clerk or other Officer performing the Duties of Clerk for the Time being of the Sewer Authority which passed the Resolution forming the District, shall be Evidence of the Formation of such District, and after the Expiration of Three Months from the Date of the Resolution forming the District such District shall be presumed to have been duly formed, and no Objection to the Formation thereof shall be entertained in any legal Proceedings whatever.

. . . Power to

8. Any Owner or Occupier of Premises within the District of a drain into Sewer Authority shall be entitled to cause his Drains to empty into Sewers of

J i Sewer Au-

the thority.

Use of Sewers by Persons beyond District.

As to tlie Drainage of Houses.

Supply of Water to District of Sewer Authority.

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Notice as may be required by that Authority of his ™^ to do and of complying with the Regulations ot that Authority n resp t of the Mode in which the Communicates between uch Drains and Sewers are to be made, and subject to the Control of anv Person who may be appointed by the> Sewer Autnonty to superintend the making of such Communications ; but ^ny Person causing any Drain to empty into .any Sewet of _ a Sewer Authority without complying with the Provisions of ^ ^ shall incur a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Po-d^^ be lawful for the Sewer Authority to close any Commuu^atmn between a Drain and Sewer made in contravention of this Section and "recover in a summary Manner from the Person so offending any Expenses incurred by them under this Section.

9 Any Owner or Occupier of Premises beyond the Limits of the District of a Sewer Authority may cause any Se.eror D in from such Premises to communicate with any Sewer of the Sewei Authority upon such Terms and Conditions as may -be ag^ upon between such Owner or Occupier and such Sewer Authority, or LcaT of Dispute may, at the Option of the Owner or Occup.er be led by Two Justices or by Arbitration in manner provided by The Public Health Act, 1848, in respect ol Matters by that Act authorized or directed to be settled by Arbitration.

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v, M„™« nf Drainage are within that Distance, uieu tatrf ,» such 'j«-» or Qther 1>lace not being

"Irnv Hons as.le S,„,.r Authority direct, , and if the Person unde. .my Hou* * to comply with the same, the

IZ X'tntv Z iUcK. at the Expiration of the Time spec, e taThe Note do the Work required, and the Expenses men,™! i;t in s" doing may be recovered from such Owner ,n a —J Manner.

H V -ewer Authority within its District shall have the same 11. A oewei m j w , tl t ., Local Board has

mentioned shall apply accordmgly in the same Manner rt^

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such Provisions" Sewer Authority" were substituted for "Local Board of Health" or "Local Board," and the District in such Provisions mentioned were the District of the Sewer Authority and not the District of the Local Board ; that is to say, the Sections numbered from Seventy-five to Eighty, both inclusive, of The Public Health Act, 1848, Sections Fifty-one, Fifty-two, and Fifty-three of The Local Government Act, 1858, and Section Twenty of The Local Government Act, 1858, Amendment Act, 1861.

The Sewer Authority may, if it think it expedient so to do, provide a Supply of Water for the Use of the Inhabitants of the District by

(1.) Digging Wells ;

(2.) Making and maintaining Reservoirs ;

(3.) Doing any other necessary Acts ; and they may themselves furnish the same, or contract with any other Persons or Companies to furnish the same : Provided always, that no Land be purchased or taken under this Clause except by Agreement or in manner provided by the Local Government Act, 1858.

12. Any Expenses incurred by a Sewer Authority in or about Expenses of the Supply of Water to its District, and in carrying into effect ^tyfn" the Provisions herein-before in that Behalf mentioned, shall be supplying deemed to be Expenses incurred by that Authority in carrying Waterinto effect The Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, and be payable accordingly.

13. All Property in Wells, Fountains, and Pumps, and Powers Wells, &c. in relation thereto, vested in the Nuisance Authority by the ^yp^f ° Seventh Section of the Act passed in the Session of the Twenty- vested in third and Twenty -fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, ^^nty Chapter Seventy-seven, shall vest in the Sewer Authority, where &c.

the Sewer Authority supplies Water to its District. ^37^2&4^lct-

Part II

Amendment of the Nuisances Removal Acts. 14. The Expression " Nuisances Removal Acts " shall mean the Definition of Acts passed in the Years following of the Reign of Her present S^r'1 Majesty, that is to say, the one in the Session of the Eighteenth and Acts." Nineteenth Years, Chapter One hundred and twenty-one, and the other in the Session of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years, Chapter Seventy-seven, as amended by this Part of this Act ; and this Part of this Act shall be 'construed as One with the said Acts, 9 T and

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and all Expenses incurred by a Nuisance Authority in carrying into effect any of the Provisions of this Part of this Act shall be deemed to be Expenses incurred by it in carrying into effect the Nuisances Removal Acts.

Definition of " Nuisance Authority."

15. " Nuisance Authority " shall mean any Authority empowered to execute the Nuisances Removal Acts.

Power of

Police with respect to Nuisances.

16. In any Place within the Jurisdiction of a Nuisance Authority the Chief Officer of Police within that Place, by and under the Directions of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, on its being proved to his Satisfaction that the Nuisance Authority has made default in doing its Duty, may institute" any Proceeding which the Nuisance Authority of such Place might institute with respect to the Removal of Nuisances : Provided always, that no Officer of Police shall be at liberty to enter any House or Part of a House used as the Dwelling of any Person without such Person's Consent, or without the Warrant of a Justice of the Peace, for the Purpose of carrying into effect this Act.

Sect. 8. of 23 & 24 Vict C. 77. repealed.

17. The Third Section of the said Act of the Session of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-seven, shall be repealed, and all Powers vested in any Highway Board or " Nuisance Removal Committee " under the Nuisances Removal Acts shall determine, and all Property belonging to them for the Purposes of the said Nuisances Removal Acts shall, subject to any Debts or Liabilities affecting the same, be transferred to or vested in the Nuisance Authority under the said Acts : Provided always, that this Section shall not extend to any Vestry or District Board, under the Act of the Session of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and twenty, intituled An Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis, or to any Committee appointed by such Vestr}- or District Board for the Purpose of carrying into effect the Nuisances Removal Acts or anv of them.

Requisition ol Ten Inhabitants equivalent to I lertificatt of Medical Otficer.

18. A Requisition in Writing under the Hands of any Ten Inhabitants of a Place shall for the Purposes of the Twenty-seventh Section of "The Nuisances Removal Act for England, 18.")5," be deemed to be equivalent to the Certificate of the Medical Officer or Medical Practitioners therein mentioned, and the said Section shall be enforced accordingly.

19. The

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19. The Word "Nuisances" under the Nuisance Removal Addition to _

,...., Definition of

Acts shall include, Nuisance.

1. Any House or Part of a House so overcrowded as to he dangerous or prejudicial to the Health of the Inmates :

"2. Any Factory, Workshop, or Workplace not already under the Operation of any General Act for the Regulation of Factories or Bakehouses, not kept in a cleanly State, or not ventilated in such a Manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any Gases, Vapours, Dust, or other Impurities generated in the course of the Work carried on therein that are a Nuisance or injurious or dangerous to Health, or so overcrowded while Work is carried on as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the Health of those employed therein :

3. Any Fireplace or Furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the Smoke arising from the Combustible used in such Fireplace or Furnace, and is used within the District of a Nuisance Authority for working Engines by Steam, or in any Mill, Factory, Dyehouse, Brewery, Bakehouse, or Gaswork, or in any Manufactory or Trade Process whatsoever :

Any Chimney (not being the Chimney of a private Dwelling House) sending forth Black Smoke in such Quantity as to be a Nuisance :

Provided, first, that in Places where at the Time of the passing of this Act no Enactment is in force compelling Fireplaces or Furnaces to consume their own Smoke, the foregoing Enactment as to Fireplaces and Furnaces consuming their own Smoke shall not come into operation until the Expiration of One Year from the Date of the passing of this Act :

Secondty, that where a Person is summoned before the Justices in respect of a 1 Nuisance arising from a Fireplace or Furnace which does not consume the Smoke arising from the Combustible used in such Fireplace or Furnace, the Justices may hold that no Nuisance is created within the Meaning of this Act, and dismiss the Complaint, if they are satisfied that such Fireplace or Furnace is constructed in such Manner as to consume as far as practicable, having regard to the Nature of the Manufacture or Trade, all Smoke arising therefrom, and that such Fireplace or Furnace has been carefully attended to by the Person having the Charge thereof.

20. It shall be the Duty of the Nuisance Authority to make Duties of from Time to Time, either by itself or its Officers, Inspection of the Nuisance District, with a view to ascertain what Nuisances exist calling for as^o in-16" Abatement under the Powers of the Nuisance Removal Acts, and to sPect;on of

„ Nuisancse,

enforce &„

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As to Proceedings of Nuisance Authority under Sect. 12. of 18 & 19 Vict, c. 121.

Power to

cause Premises to be cleansed or otherwisi disinfected.

ment thereof, also to enforce the Protons of any Ac > ***£ be in force within its District requiring Fireplaces and 1 urnace to onsum their own Smoke; and any Justice upon Complaint upon O^ may make an Order to admit the Nmsance Authontj TL Officers for these Purposes, as well as to ground Pro

ceedings under the Eleventh Section of The Nuisances Removal

21 The Nuisance Authority or Chief Officer of Police shall presto taking Proceedings before a Justice under the Twelfth Section of The Nuisances Removal Act, 1855, serve a Notice on the Pe son by whose Act, Default, or Sufferance the Nuisance anses o' continues,5 or, if such Person cannot be found «r -c^rtame , on the Owner or Occupier of the Premises on which the Nuisance arises .abate the same, and for that Purpose to execute such Works and To do all such Things as may be necessary within a Time to be specified in the Notice : Provided,

First that where the Nuisance arises from the Want or defective ''Con— of any structural Convenience, or where t en, is no Occupier of the Premises, Notice under this Section shall be served on the Owner : Secondly that where the Person causing the Nuisance cannot be SW%nd it is clear that the Nuisance oe? J^ « continue by the Act, Defaulter Sufferance of the Owne : or Occupier of the Premises, then the Nuisance Authority may Shate the same without further Orde^CosU, so doing shall be Part of the Costs of executing the Nuisances Removal Acts, and borne accordingly.

22 If the Nuisance Authority shall be of opinion upon the Certi-

infectious or contagious Dis £ * *£* J the 0wner

sance Authority o , gv «, N *»* W-J. ^JF^ disinfec, or Occupier oj such House or ui

the same a, the 0. ££*£«£* %?*, Thnespeci-

Notice n so given '•'»' to c0,nP ; Penalty of not less than

„eJ in ,l,e Not.ee he sha be ub,e a e^ V ^

One Shilling and not exceeu.n= . Nuisance during which he continues to .oak drfauU and the

Authority shall cause such Jh e .it ^ ^

and disinfected, ami m«J recover toe cxpe ^^

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Owner or Occupier in default in a summary Manner ; when the Owner or Occupier of any such House or Part thereof as is referred to in this Section is from Poverty or otherwise unable, in the Opinion of the Nuisance Authority, effectually to carry out the Requirements of this Section, such Authority may, without enforcing such Requirements on such Owner or Occupier, with his Consent, at its own Expense, cleanse and disinfect such House or Part thereof, and any Articles therein likely to retain Infection.

23. The Nuisance Authority in each District may provide a Power to proper Place, with all necessary Apparatus and Attendance, for the Means of Disinfection of Woollen Articles, Clothing, or Bedding which have Disinfection. become infected, and they may cause any Articles brought for Disinfection to be disinfected free of Charge.

24. It shall be lawful at all Times for the Nuisance Authority to Nuisance provide and maintain a Carriage or Carriages suitable for the Convey- Autnoritl?s

r ° ... niay provide

ance of Persons suffering under any contagious or infectious Disease, Carriages for and to pay the Expense of conveying any Person therein to a Hospital Conveyance or Place for the Reception of the Sick or to his own Home. Persons.

25. If any Person suffering from any dangerous infectious Penalty on Disorder shall enter any public Conveyance without previously lS0-no. notifying to the Owner or Driver thereof that he is so suffering, he from infecshall on Conviction thereof before any Justice be liable to a Penalty tK\us Dis"

- " J order en-

not exceeding Five Pounds, and shall also be ordered by such tering public Justice to pay to such Owner and Driver all the Losses and Ex- Conveyance

rr • • ■ ro l nn • • n i WltllOUt

penses they may suffer in carrying into effect the Provisions of this notifying to Act ; and no Owner or Driver of any public Conveyance shall be Driver that

m ^ \lG is so

required to convey any Person so suffering until they shall have suffering, been Grst paid a Sum sufficient to cover all such Losses and Expenses.

26. Where a Hospital or Place for the Reception of the Sick is Removal of

provided within the District of a Nuisance Authority, any Justice Persons sick

of infectious may, with the Consent of the Superintending Body of such Hospital Disorders,

or Place, by Order on a Certificate signed by a legally qualified and without

Medical Practitioner, direct the Removal to such Hospital or Place Lod°-in°-, in

for the Reception of the Sick, at the Cost of the Nuisance Authority, any District.

of any Person suffering from any dangerous contagious or infectious

Disorder, being without proper Lodging or Accommodation, or

lodged in a Room occupied by more than One Family, or being on

board any Ship or Vessel.

9 U 27. Any

I

814 29° cV 30° VICTORIA, Cap.90

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97 Anv Nuisance Authority may provide a proper Place for

~ JLeptL oTTead Bodies, and where any such Place has been ^ ( dead the Kfception whQ hag d.ed Qf any intectl0US

KS3S ^^is'l^dtaRoorn in which Persons live ■£*£* »tthePublic dead Body which is in such a State as to endanger the Health ol EXPeDSe- t In! t s of the same House or Room is retard m such Hou o Boon anv Justice may, on a Certificate signed by a legally ana fied Medical Practitioner, order the Body to be removed to such pC Place of Reception at the Cost of the Nuisance Authority and dir the same to be buried within a Time to be hunted in such Order and unless the Friends or Relations of the Deceased under tale to burv the Body within the Time so limited, and ao bury the te, it shall be the duty of the Relieving Officer to bury such Body at the Expense of the Poor Rate, but any Expense so incurred mayyb recovered by the Relieving Officer m a summary Manner from any Person legally liable to pay the Expense of such Burial. 9ft Anv Nuisance Authority may provide a proper Place (other- 2=& of JXiltMo.se or at a Mortuary House as lastly heremdead Bodies ™ tnan ax Reception of dead Bodies tor and post-mortem au™° Pm-nner of the District or other constituted Authornvj ,

St? :" m^ "e ulltions as they may deem fit for the Main tenance Support, and Management of such Place; and where any uT Placets been provided, any Coroner or other constituted Authority may order the Removal of the Body for carrying out such P^uttZ Examination and the Re-removal of such Body such (C : of Removal and Re-removal to be paid in the same Manner anf out of the same Fund as the Cost and Fees for Post-mortem Examinations when ordered by the Coroner. p ( o9 i„y Nuisance Authority may, with the ^Sanction of the

r: 'to Frivy Council, signified in manner provided by « The Public Health a°Bpitalsi<* ?7l858" lay down Rules for the Removal to any Hospital to Persons ,.',?' . Iunr:tv ;s entitled to remove Patients, and for keeping

brought by which such Authontv is entmea to it. Pprsons broueht

ShiPs" in such Hospital so long as may be necessary an) Persons brougnt

thn their District by anv Ship or Boat who are infected Wltn a Serous and infectious Disorder, and they may by such Rules fmpose anv Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds on any Person committing any Offence against the same.

SO For the Purposes of this Act, any Ship, Vessel, or Boat that JEST* ig i°; . c ot Within the District of a Nuisance Authority shal f-jTJ be deemed to be within the District of such Nuisance Authority as Uthonty be deemed 10 Council, and until a Nuisance

rtodng raay be prescribed b> the Pnv5 , Authority of Nuisance Authority.

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Authority has been prescribed then of the Nuisance Authority where Ships whose District nearest adjoins the Place where such Ship, Vessel, are yinsor Boat is lying, the Distance being measured in a straight Line, but nothing in this Act contained shall enable any Nuisance Authority to interfere with any Ship, Vessel, or Boat that is not in British Waters.

31. The Power of Entry given to the Authorities by the Eleventh Power of

Section of The Nuisances Removal Act, 1855, may be exercised ^u^nce

at any Hour when the Business in respect of which the Nuisance Authority or '• • • ii ■ j their Officer

arises is in progress or is usually carried on. under

And any Justices Order once issued under the said Section shall Sect. ll..of

• f M TVT • 11 11 1 ITT 1 IS & 19 Vict.

continue in force until the JNmsance has been abated, or the Work c. 121. for which the Entry was necessary has been done.

32. Any Ship or Vessel lying in any River, Harbour, or other Provision as Water shall be subject to the Jurisdiction of the Nuisance Autho- wjthin the rity of the District within which such River, Harbour, or other Jurisdiction Water is, and be within the Provisions of the Nuisances Removal Acts, in the same Manner as if it were a House within such Jurisdiction, and the Master or other Officer in charge of such Ship shall

be deemed for the Purposes of the Nuisances Removal Acts to be the Occupier of such Ship or Vessel ; but this Section shall not apply to any Ship or Vessel belonging to Her Majesty or to any Foreign Government.

33. Where the Guardians are the Nuisance Authority for Part Provision of any Parish only, and shall require to expend Money on account Money in° of such Part in execution of the Provisions of the said Acts, the divided Overseers of the Parish shall, upon Receipt of an Order from the aus essaid Guardians, raise the requisite Amount from the Persons liable

to be assessed to the Poor Rate therein by a Rate to be made in like Manner as a Poor Rate, and shall have all the same Powers of making and recovering the same, and of paying the Expense of collecting the Rate when made, and shall account to the Auditor of the District for Receipt and Disbursement of the same, in like Manner, and with the same Consequences, as in the Case of the Poor Rate made by them.

34. That it shall be lawful for the Nuisance Authority, at their Nuisance Discretion, to require the Payment of any Costs or Expenses which may squire the Owner of any Premises may be liable to pay under the said Payment of Nuisances Removal Acts or this Act, either from the Owner or J^aislrom from any Person who then or at any Time thereafter occupies such Owner or Premises, and such Owner or Occupier shall be liable to pay the ^d Occu ier

same.

paying to deduct from Rent.

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same, and the same shall be recovered in manner authorised by the Nuisance Removal Acts, and the Owner shall allow such Occupier to deduct the Sums of Money which he so pays out o the Kent from Time to Time becoming due in respect of the said Premises, as if the same had been actually paid to such Owner as Part of such Rent: Provided always, that no such Occupier shall be required to pay any further Sum than the Amount of Rent for the Time being due from him, or which, after such Demand of such Costs or Expenses from such Occupier, and after Notice not to pay his Landlord any Rent without first deducting the Amount of such Costs or Expenses, becomes payable by such Occupier, unless he refuse, on Application being made to him for that Purpose bv or on behalf of the Nuisance Authority, truly to disclose the (mount of his Rent and the Name and Address of the Person to whom such Rent is payable, but the Burden of Proof that ^the Sum demanded from any such Occupier is greater than the Rent due bv him at the Time of such Notice, or which has since accrued, shall lie upon such Occupier; provided also, that nothing herein contained shall be taken to affect any Contract made or to be made between any Owner or Occupier of any House, Bmldmg, or other Property whereof it is or may be agreed that the Occupier shall pay or discharge all Rates, Dues, and Sums of Money payable ,n respect of such House, Building, or other Property, or to affect any Contract whatsoever between Landlord or Tenant.

PART III. Miscellaneous

In Cities.

Boroughs, or

Towns,

Secretary of

State, on Applicat Li - oi Nuisance Authority, may empower thrill

to make Regulations as to Lodging

35 On Application to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State by the Nuisance Authority of the City of London, or any District or' Parish included within the Act for the better Local Government of the Metropolis, or of any Municipal Borough, or of any Place under The Local Government Act, 1858, or any Local Improvement Act, or of any City or Town containing according to the Census for the Time being in force, a Population of not less than Five thousand Inhabitants, the Secretary of State may, as he may think tit by Notice to be published in the London Gazette, declare the following Enactment to be in force in the District of such Nuisance Authority, and from and after the Publication of such Notice the Nuisance Authority shall be empowered to make Regulations for the following Matters ; that is to say,

1 For fixing the Number of Persons who may occupy a House or Part of a House which is let in Lodgings or occupied by

Members of more than One Family :

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2. For the Registration of Houses thus let or occupied in

Lodgings :

3. For the Inspection of such Houses, and the keeping the same

in a cleanly and wholesome State :

4. For enforcing therein the Provision of Privy Accommodation

and other Appliances and Means of Cleanliness in proportion to the Number of Lodgings and Occupiers, and the cleansing and Ventilation of the common Passages and Staircases :

5. For the cleansing and lime-whiting at stated Times of such

Premises : The Nuisance Authority may provide for the Enforcement of the above Regulations by Penalties not exceeding Forty Shillings for any One Offence, with an additional Penalty not exceeding Twenty Shillings for every Day during which a Default in obeying such Regulations may continue ; but such Regulations shall not be of any Validity unless and until they shall have been confirmed by the Secretary of State.