c. 98, LOCAL GOVERN MENT ACT, 1858. 21 & 22 Vic. provided at an expense not exceeding the water rate authorized by the said Act or any local Act in force in the district, and notices under that section shall be served on owners of houses so supplied instead of occupiers, and expenses incurred under that section shall be recoverable from such owners. Power of carrying water mains. Power to or market company to sell works, &c., to Local Boards. 52. Where the Local Board supply water to their district they shall have the same power for carrying water mains within the district as they have for carrying sewers by the law in force for the time being. 53. It shall be lawful for any Local Board of waterworks Health absolutely to purchase, and for the Directors for the time being of any Waterworks Company or Market Company, by and with the authority of three-fifths of the Shareholders for the time being in such Company who may be present, either personally or by proxy, at some general meeting of the Company specially convened for the purpose, to sell, convey, and transfer unto any Local Board of Health, upon such terms as shall be mutually agreed upon between the Company and the Local Board, all the rights, powers, and privileges, and all or any of the lands and premises, works, matters, and things, which at the time of such purchase shall be the property of the Company, but subject to all mortgages, contracts, or liabilities to which the same shall be then subject. c. 61, LOCAL GOVERN 24 & 25 VIC. III. EXTRACTS from "The Local Government Act, 1858, Amendment Act, 1861" (24 & 25 Fic. cap. 61, passed 1st August, 1861). MENT ACT AMENDMENT' Аст, 1861. Local Board 4. Local Boards may exercise the powers given by the forty-fifth section of "The Public Health may exercise Act, 1848," also without their district, for the of outfall or distribution of sewage, upon 11 12 Vic. making due compensation, to be settled in the powers of § 45 of c. 63, also purpose a See p. 468. c. 61, LOCAL GOVERN MENT ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1861. manner provided in the one hundred and forty- 24 & 25 Vic. fourth section of "The Public Health Act, 1848:" Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall give or be construed to give power to any Local Board to construct or use any outfall, drain, or sewer for the purpose of conveying sewage or filthy water into any natural watercourse or stream district, if until such sewage or filthy or refuse water be necessary, for the purposes freed from all excrementitious or other foul or of outfall or noxious matter, such as would affect or deteriorate of sewage, the purity and quality of the water in such stream on making or watercourse. 20. In districts where no Water Companies are established by Act of Parliament, all Local Boardsa may make agreements for the supply of water to persons on such terms as may be agreed upon between the Local Board and the persons receiving such supply, and shall have the same powers for recovering water rents accruing under such agreements, as they have for the recovery of water rates by the law in force for the time being. without their distribution compensa tion. 14 & 15 VICT. CAP. 28. 14 & 15 VIC. c. 28, COMMON An Act for the well-ordering of Common Lodging LODGING Houses. [24th July, 1851.] WHEREAS it would tend greatly to the comfort and welfare of many of Her Majesty's poorer subjects if provision were made for the well-ordering of common lodging houses: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows; to wit, HOUSES Аст, 1851. 1. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall be short Title. In Ireland the Sewer Authority. See Sanitary Act, 1866, § 11 (p. 394). 14 & 15 Vic. sufficient to use the expression "The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851." c. 28. COMMON LODGING Аст, 1851. Interpretation of terms in this Act. Meaning of the term "the Local 2. The following words and expressions in this Act have, for the purposes and execution of this Act, the following meanings; to wit, The word "Place" includes county, riding, hundred, and other division or part of a county, city, borough, parish, district and other place whatsoever : The word "Borough," and the expressions The expression "Improvement Act" means an [§ 3 defines the localities within which and the bodies by whom the Act shall be executed, and § 4 determines the fund out of which the expenses shall be paid. Both of these sections appear to be superseded as to Ireland by 23 Vic. c. 26 (post, p. 487).] 5. The expression in this Act, "the Local Authority" means, with respect to the purposes and Authority." execution of this Act with respect to any place. the body or person by this Act authorized to execute with respect to the place the several provi sions of this Act. Notice of this keepers of common lodging houses. 6. Within three months after the passing of given to the this Act the Local Authority shall, and from time to time thereafter the Local Authority may, give to the keeper of every common lodging house already or hereafter within the jurisdiction under this Act of the Local Authority, notice in writing of this Act, and shall give such notice by leaving the same for such keeper a the house, and shall c. 28, COMMON LODGING HOUSES by such notice require the keeper to register the 14 & 15 VIC. house as by this Act provided, and such notice may be in the form in the schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like effect". Аст, 1851. common houses to be 7. The Local Authority shall keep a register in which shall be entered the names and residences Registers of of the keepers of all common lodging houses lodging within the jurisdiction of the Local Authority, kept and the situation of every such house, and the number of lodgers authorized according to this Act to be received therein. in common houses until 8. After one month after the giving of such Lodgers not notice to register as by this Act provided, the to be received keeper of any common lodging house or any other lodging person shall not receive any lodger in such house registered until the same has been inspected and approved under this for that purpose by some officer appointed in that behalf by the Local Authority, and has been registered as by this Act provided. [§ 9 and 10, which provide for the making of regulations and imposing penalties, are repealed as to Ireland, and other provisions made in lieu thereof, by 23 Vic., c. 26, § 4 (post, p. 488).] Act. lodging 11. The keeper of a common lodging house Keepers of shall, when a person in such house is ill of fever common or any infectious or contagious disease, give imme- houses to diate notice thereof to the Local Authority, or of fever, &c., give notice some officer of the Local Authority, and also to therein. the Poor Law Medical Officer and the Poor Law Relieving Officer of the union or parish in which the common lodging house stands. tion of com 12. The keeper of a common lodging house, As to inspeoand every other person having or acting in the mon lodging care or management thereof, shall, at all times houses. when required by any officer of the Local Authority, give him free access to such house or any part thereof. ing of com 13. The keeper of a common lodging house As to cleansshall thoroughly cleanse all the rooms, passages, mon lodging stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings, houses. privies, cesspools, and drains thereof, to the satisfaction of and so often as shall be required by or a Page 483. Y c. 28, 14 & 15 Vic. in accordance with any regulation or bye-law of the Local Authority, and shall well and sufficiently, and to the like satisfaction, limewash the walls and ceilings thereof in the first week of each of the months of April and October in every year. COMMON ACT, 1851. Penalty for offences against this Act. Recovery of penalties. General powers of Local Authority, &c. A et not to extend to the city of London: nor to Sco: land. 14. If the keeper of a common lodging house, or any other person having or acting in the care or management thereof, offend against any of the provisions of this Act, or any of the bye-laws or regulations made in pursuance of this Act, or if any person in any common lodging house be confined to his bed for forty-eight hours by fever or any infectious or contagious disease, without the keeper of such house giving notice thereof as required by this Act," every person so offending shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which the offence continues: Provided always, that this Act shall not exempt any person from any penalty or other liability to which he may be subject irrespective of this Act. 15. The clauses and provisions of "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," "with "respect to the recovery of damages not specially "provided for, and of penalties, and to the deter"mination of any other matter referred to Jus"tices," are for the purposes and execution of this Act incorporated with this Act. 16. The Local Authority, and all Justices, Constables, and others, shall respectively have full jurisdiction, powers, authorities, and indemnities for executing the several provisions of this Act; and the restrictions of "The Public Health Act, 1848," as to the hours within which common lodging houses may be entered by persons authorized by a Local Board of Health, shall not apply to this Act. 17. That this Act shall not extend to the city of London or the liberties thereof. 18. That nothing in this Act shall extend to Scotland. See sec. 11, page 481. |