SCHEDULE. 14 & 15 VIC. c. 28. COMMON Form of Notice. day of day of an you, TAKE notice, That on the Act called "The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851," was passed, and that before the being the keeper of a common lodging house within [here state the place over which the jurisdiction of the Local Authority giving the notice extends], must have your common lodging house registered, and that the register is to be kept at [here state where the register is to be kept), and that if you do not have your common lodging house so registered you will be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every lodger whom you receive in your common lodging house while it is not so registered; and that on your applying to [here give the name and address of the person to keep the register] he will register your common lodging house free of all charge to you. [gc. ]. Dated LODGING HOUSES ACT, 1851. 16 & 17 VICT. CAP. 41. An Act for making further Provisions with respect to Common Lodging Houses. [4th August, 1853.] WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the provisions of "The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851:" 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: 16 & 17 VIC. c. 41, COMMON LODGING HOUSES ᎪᏨᎢ, 1853. 1. This Act may be cited for any purpose as Short title. "The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1853." and this Act 2. "The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851," Recited Act and this Act shall be construed and executed as if to be as one. they were one Act. longing hou-es to bo gistered used, and to 3. After three months after the passing of this All common Act a person shall not keep a common lodging house or receive a lodger therein until the house have been inspected and approved for that purpose by some officer appointed in that behalf by the Y 2 before being be kept only by registered keepers. 16 & 17 Vic. Local Authority, and have been registered as by c. 41, COMMON LODGING HOUSES ACT, 1853. Local Authority may refuse to register houses if keepers do the recited Act provided; and a person shall not keep a common lodging house unless his name as the keeper thereof be entered in the register kept under the recited Act: Provided always, that when the person so registered dies, his widow or any member of his family may keep the house as a common lodging house for not more than four weeks after his death without being registered as the keeper thereof. 4. The Local Authority may refuse to register as the keeper of a common lodging house a person who does not produce to the Local Authority a certificate of character in such form as the Local not produce Authority shall direct, signed by three inhabitant householders of the parish respectively rated to the relief of the poor of the parish within which the lodging house is situate for property of the yearly rateable value of six pounds or upwards. certificate of cuaracter. Fridence of register. Power to Local Authority to require an additional supply of water to common lodging houses. 5. A copy of an entry made in a register kept under the recited Act, certified by the person having the charge of the register to be a true copy, shall be received in all Courts and before all Justices and on all occasions whatsoever as evidence, and be sufficient proof of all things therein registered, without production of the register or of any document, act, or thing on which the entry is founded; and every person applying at a reasonable time shall be furnished gratis by the person having such charge with a certified copy of any such entry. 6. Where it appears to the Local Authority that a common lodging house is without a proper supply of water for the use of the lodgers, and that such a supply can be furnished thereto at a reasonable rate, the Local Authority may by notice in writing require the owner or keeper of the common lodging house, within a time specified therein, to obtain such supply, and to do all works necessary for that purpose; and if the notice be not complied with accordingly, the Local Authority may remove the common lodging house from the register until it be complied with. c. 41, COMMON LODGING HOUSES Аст, 1853. As to resick persons from com houses to moval of mon lodging hospital, &c. 7. When a person in a common lodging house 16 & 17 VIC. is ill of fever or any infectious or contagious disease the Local Authority may cause such person to be removed to an hospital or infirmary with the consent of the Authorities thereof, and on the certificate of the Medical Officer of the parish, place, or district, that the disease is infectious or contagious and that the patient may be safely removed, and may, so far as the Local Authority think requisite for preventing the spread of disease, cause any clothes or bedding used by such person to be disinfected or destroyed, and may, if the Local Authority think fit, award to the owners of the clothes and bedding so disinfected or destroyed reasonable compensation for the injury or destruction thereof, and such compensation shall be paid to such owners by the proper officer of the parish or union in which the common lodging house is situate, out of the rates applicable to the relief of the poor of such parish, the amount of such compensation being first certified in writing upon a list of such articles. Power to ports from keepers of lodging houses kert order re common for beggars 8. The keeper of a common lodging house in which beggars or vagrants are received to lodge, or other person having the care or management thereof, shall from time to time, if required by any order of the Local Authority served on such keeper or person, report to the Local Authority, and vagrants. or to such person or persons as the said Local Authority shall direct, every person who resorted to such house during the preceding day or night, and for that purpose schedules shall be furnished by the Local Authority to the persons so ordered to report, which schedules they shall fill up with the information required, and transmit to the Local Authority. the 9. The Town Council, Trustees, Commissioners, Guardians, and other officers and Boards specified in the first section of "The Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848," shall, on receipt of a certificate of any Police Constable or of any officer appointed for the inspection of common lodging houses by the Local Authority, stating the existence in or about any common lodging Power to cils, &c., remove Town Coun causes of complaint certified under Nuisances &c., Act. Removal, 16 & 17 VIC. house of any of the causes of complaint specified c. 41, COMMON LODGING HOUSES ACT, 1853. As to offences Act. in that section, take all such proceedings as by that section are required to be taken by the Town Council, Trustees, Commissioners, Guardians, and other officers and Boards specified therein on a notice signed by two inhabitant householders, and in like manner as nearly as may be as if such notice had been given; and the Local Authority shall have the like powers, and shall take all such proceedings, on receipt of any such certificate of the existence of any such cause of complaint, as the Town Council, Trustees, Commissioners, Guardians, and other officers or Boards have and are empowered and required to take under the provisions of that Act. [§ 10 relates exclusively to the city of Oxford and the borough of Cambridge.] 11. The fourteenth section of the recited Act against this extends to offences against any of the provisions of this Act, so as to render the offenders liable to the penalties therein expressed, and any person convicted of any offence against the recited Act and this Act, or either of them, may, in default of payment of the penalty imposed, be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months in the manner provided by law in that behalf. Conviction for third offence to disqualify persons from keeping common lodging house. Acts may be executed by 12. Where a keeper of a common lodging-house, or a person having or acting in the care or management of a common lodging house, is convicted of a third offence against the recited Act and this Act, or either of them, the Justices before whom the conviction for such third offence takes place may, if they think fit, adjudge that he shall not at any time within five years after the conviction, or within such shorter period after the conviction as the Justices think fit, keep or have or act in the care or management of a common lodging house without the previous licence in writing of the Local Authority, which licence the Local Authority may withhold or may grant on such terms and conditions as they think fit. 13. In a case in which there are not Petty a Page 482. c. 41, COMMON LODGING HOUSES ACT, 1853. Sessions for a place fifthly mentioned in section 16 & 17 VIC. three of the recited Act, that Act and this Act may be executed within and for all and any part of such place by the Justices of the Peace acting in Petty Sessions in the Petty Sessional Division Justices at within which such place is comprised. Petty Sessions. As to ex Act by 14. Where in any place the recited Act and this Act are executed by Justices in Petty Sessions, penses of the expenses of and incident to the executing of executing the recited Act and this Act with respect to such Justices. Petty Sessional Division shall be borne by and paid out of the rates for the relief of the poor of the several parishes or other places comprised therein in which any common lodging house is situate (except so far as there are other monies applicable to the purpose), and the amount of such expenses shall be ascertained and apportioned by such Justices, and shall be paid accordingly as they order. 23 VICT. CAP. 26. 23 VIC. o. 26, COMMON An Act to remove Doubts as to the Application LODGING of "The Common Lodging Houses Acts" to Ireland, and to amend the Provisions of the same so far as they relate to Ireland. [25th May, 1860.] HOUSES ACT IRELAND, 1860. 16 & 17 Vic. WHEREAS doubts have arisen as to whether "The 14 & 15 Vic., Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851," and "The . 28. Common Lodging Houses Act, 1853," extend to c. 41. Ireland, and difficulties have occurred in the execution of the said Acts therein; and it is expedient that such doubts and difficulties should be removed, and for that purpose that the said Acts should be explained and amended with reference to the execution thereof in Ireland: 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; (that is to say,) 1. In citing this Act for any purpose it shall Short title. |