4 Edw. 7, c. 21. 29 & 30 Vict. c. 39. Interpretation, application, and short title. for repaying to that Fund any part of the sums so issued, borrow by means of terminable annuities for a term not exceeding thirty years, and all sums so borrowed shall be paid into the Exchequer. (3) The said annuities shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament, and, if those moneys are insufficient, shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof. (4) The Treasury may also, if they think fit, for the same purpose borrow money by means of the issue of Exchequer bonds and the Capital Expenditure (Money) Act, 1904, shall have effect as if this Act had been in force at the time of the passing of that Act. (5) The Treasury shall, within six months after the end of every financial year, cause to be made out and laid before the House of Commons accounts showing the amount of any expenditure of a capital nature incurred by the Local Government Board and the Commissioners of Works, respectively, under this Act, and of the money borrowed and the securities created under this Act; and any such accounts of expenditure shall be audited and reported upon by the Comptroller and Auditor-General as appropriation accounts in manner provided by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1866. 3.-(1) In this Act the expression "authorised society" means any society, company, or body of persons approved by the Treasury whose objects include the erection, improvement, or management of dwellings for working classes, which does not trade for profit, or whose constitution forbids the payment of any interest or dividend at a rate exceeding five per cent. per annum. (2) In the application of this Act to Scotland the Local Government Board for Scotland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board, and "burgh "shall be substituted for "borough." (3) This Act shall not apply to Ireland. (4) This Act may be cited as the Housing Act, 1914. Powers as to acquisition of land and build HOUSING (No. 2) ACT, 1914. [4 & 5 GEO. V. c. 52.] An Act to give the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in Agricultural Districts and the Local Government Board elsewhere powers with respect to Housing and to make similar provision for Scotland. [10th August, 1914.] Note.-This Statute was passed as an emergency measure shortly after the outbreak of war to meet apprehended unemployment in the building trade. It was extended to Ireland by the Housing (No. 2) Amendment Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. v. c. 71.) The only section which is still operative is 8. 1 (2), but the provisions of that sub-section are virtually superseded by the Act of 1919. BE it enacted by the King'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: 1.-(1) The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in agricultural districts and the Local Government Board elsewhere shall have power during the ings for housing period of one year from the passing of this Act to acquire, with the consent of the Treasury and with the concurrence of the Development Commissioners, land and buildings for housing purposes, and, with the consent of the Treasury, shall have power to dispose of any land or buildings so acquired. purposes. (2) The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Local Government Board respectively shall have power to do all other things which may appear to them necessary or desirable for housing purposes in connection with any land or buildings so acquired, and to make any arrangements for housing purposes with any Local Authority or authorised society within the meaning of this Act: Provided that neither the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries nor the Local Government Board shall, in the exercise of their powers under this Act, in any case themselves build any dwellings unless they are satisfied after holding a public local inquiry that in that case there is an insufficiency of dwelling accommodation for the working classes, or that the existing accommodation is unsuitable and that dwelling accommodation cannot be otherwise satisfactorily provided. 2. (1) The Treasury shall, as and when they think fit, issue out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof such sums as may be required for the purpose of meeting any expenditure which is, in the opinion of the Treasury, of a capital nature, and which is incurred with the consent or approval of the Treasury, not exceeding in the aggregate four million pounds, and any expenses incurred for those purposes by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries or the Local Government Board not being, in the opinion of the Treasury, of the nature of capital expenditure, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament, and any receipts arising in connection therewith shall be paid into the Exchequer. (2) The Treasury may, if they think fit, for the purpose of providing money for sums so authorised to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund, or for repaying to that fund any part of the sums so issued, borrow by means of terminable annuities for a term not exceeding thirty years; and all sums so borrowed shall be paid into the Exchequer. (3) The said annuities shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parlia ment, and if those moneys are insufficient, shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof. (4) The Treasury may also, if they think fit, for the same purpose, borrow money by means of the issue of Exchequer Bonds; and the Capital 4 Edw. 7, c. 21. Expenditure (Money) Act, 1904, shall have effect as if this Act had been in force at the time of the passing of that Act. (5) The Treasury shall, within six months after the end of every financial year, cause to be made out and laid before the House of Commons accounts showing the amount of any expenditure of a capital nature incurred by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Local Government Board respectively, under this Act, and of the money borrowed and the securities created under this Act; and any such accounts of expenditure shall be audited and reported upon by the Comptroller and Auditor-General as appropriation accounts in manner provided by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 29 & 30 Vict. 1866. c. 39. 3.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requiresThe expression "housing purposes means the provision, maintenance, Interpretation, improvement, and management of dwellings and gardens and other application, and works or buildings for or for the convenience of persons belonging to the working classes; and short title. c. 70. The expression "Local Authority means the Local Authority for the purposes of Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 53 & 54 Vict. 1890; and The expression "authorised society means any society, company, or body of persons approved by the Treasury, whose objects include the erection, improvement, or management of dwellings for working classes, which does not trade for profit, or whose constitution forbids the payment of any interest or dividend at a rate exceeding five per cent. per annum. (2) In the application of this Act to Scotland the Local Government Board for Scotland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board, and the Board of Agriculture for Scotland shall be substituted Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. (3) This Act shall not apply to Ireland. (4) This Act may be cited as the Housing (No. 2) Act, 1914. for the 62 & 63 Vict. c. 47. Confirmation of Order in schedule. Short title. GLASGOW CORPORATION ORDER CONFIRMATION ACT, 1918. 8 & 9 GEORGE V. c. 25. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, relating to Glasgow Corporation. [30th July, 1918.] WHEREAS His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland has after inquiry held before Commissioners made the Provisional Order set forth in the schedule hereunto annexed under the provisons of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, and it is requisite that the said Order should be confirmed by Parliament. Be it therefore enacted by the King'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: 1. The Provisional Order contained in the schedule hereunto annexed shall be and the same is hereby confirmed. 2. This Act may be cited as the Glasgow Corporation Order Confirmation Act, 1918. Power to declare house to be a farmed-out house. Definition of farmed-out house and keeper thereof. Notice to be sent. Recall of resolution. PART II. FARMED-OUT HOUSES. 5. The Corporation may by resolution declare any building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein not being a common lodginghouse or a bona fide hotel to be a farmed-out house if the medical officer of health and the sanitary inspector give to the Corporation a certificate that such building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein (1) is used or let or rented as one or more separate furnished or unfurnished houses or apartments; and (2) either from its construction or condition or the manner in which it is or is proposed to be used requires special supervision in the interests of public health and sanitation." 6. (1) The expression "farmed-out house" where occurring in this part of this order means any building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein which the Corporation shall have declared by resolution under this part of this order to be a farmed-out house. (2) The expression "keeper of a farmed-out house" means the owner, tenant, sub-tenant or other person who has or acts in the care or management of such house. 7.—(1) The Corporation shall not pass any resolution declaring a building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein to be a farmedout house until the owner and the tenant of such building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein have had after one week's notice in writing from the Corporation an opportunity of being heard by the Corporation and showing cause against such resolution being passed and the Corporation may if they see fit decline to pass the resolution. (2) The Corporation shall also give notice in writing of the passing of any resolution under the provisions of this part of this order to the owner and the tenant and the keeper of the farmed-out house to which the resolution applies. 8.-(1) The Corporation may at any time voluntarily or on the applica tion of the owner or tenant of a farmed-out house recall any resolution passed under this part of this order and any such application shall be disposed of by the Corporation forthwith. (2) In the event of the Corporation refusing an application by the owner or tenant of a farmed-out house for recall of any such resolution the applicant may within ten days from the date of such refusal appeal to the Sheriff against the same and the Sheriff shall with all reasonable dispatch and if practicable within ten days thereafter hear parties and after such summary procedure including inquiry as he thinks necessary may either dismiss the appeal or grant the application and recall the resolution and his decision shall be final and not subject to review. 9. The medical officer of health and the sanitary inspector or either of Power of entry. them may at all reasonable times enter any building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein which he has reason to believe is liable to be declared a farmed-out house under the section of this part of this order the marginal note of which is Power to declare house to be a farmed-out house and the owner tenant sub-tenant or occupier of such building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein shall give him free access thereto and to every part thereof. 10. The Corporation shall cause a register of farmed-out houses to be Registration of kept and shall enter therein the situation of every farmed-out house the farmed-out names and residences of the owner factor tenant sub-tenant and keeper of houses. such farmed-out house the number of apartments therein the maximum number of persons who may occupy such house, and any other particulars which they may deem necessary. Renewal of 11.-(1) Application shall be made to the Corporation for the renewal of registration of every farmed-out house as from the fifteenth day of May registration. in every year and such application for renewal shall be signed by the owner the tenant the sub-tenant if any and the keeper of the farmed-out house and together with a certificate as to the character and qualification of the said keeper in such form as the Corporation shall direct be lodged with the Corporation not later than the fifteenth day of March in each year. (2) The Corporation may refuse to grant such application if- (b) notwithstanding such certificate they are after inquiry satisfied that or (c) in the meantime the Sheriff has granted an order under the section of this part of this order of which the marginal note is Removal from register "for the removal from the register of the farmedout house or the keeper thereof. (3) The Corporation shall give notice in writing of their refusal to grant any application under this section to the owner and the tenant of the farmed-out house to which the refusal applies. 12. Any owner or tenant of a farmed-out house aggrieved by any reso- Appeal. lution passed under this part of this order or by any refusal of an application for the renewal of registration may within a period of fourteen days from the date of the notice of the passing of such resolution or from the date of notice of such refusal respectively appeal to the Sheriff against such resolution or refusal and the Sheriff shall with all reasonable dispatch and if practicable within ten days after the lodging of such appeal hear parties and after such summary procedure including inquiry as he thinks necessary may either dismiss the appeal or sustain the appeal and recall the resolution or grant the application for renewal and his decision shall be final Provided always that the Corporation may if they think fit after the expiry of one year from the date of any decision sustaining such appeal pass another resolution under the provisions of this part of this order declaring the building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein to which such decision applied to be a farmed-out house subject to notice and right of appeal as aforesaid. 13. No person who is under the age of twenty-one years shall be the Age of keeper keeper of a farmed-out house. of farmed-out house. House not to be used for reception of lodgers, &c., in certain events. Removal from register. Copy of register to be evidence. Bye-laws. 14. Where any building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein has been finally declared to be a farmed-out house under the provisions of this part of this order the owner tenant sub-tenant or keeper thereof shall not receive retain house or lodge any persons therein if the application for renewal of registration has not been made or having been duly made has been finally refused Provided that an application for recall of the resolution declaring such building or house or any part thereof or any apartment therein to be a farmed-out house may thereon be made in terms of this order. 15.-(1) The Corporation may at any time apply to the Sheriff for an order of removal from the register of any farmed-out house or of the keeper thereof on the ground that the owner tenant sub-tenant or keeper of such house has been convicted of any contravention of any of the provisions of this part of this order or of the bye-laws made thereunder and the Sheriff after hearing parties and if he thinks fit after inquiry may grant or refuse such order as he thinks fit and his decision shall be final. (2) In the event of the Sheriff granting such order he may in his discretion declare that the registration of such farmed-out house to which his order applies shall not be renewed until the expiry of such period not exceeding three years as he may determine and during such period it shall not be lawful for the owner tenant sub-tenant or keeper to receive retain house or lodge any person therein unless and until the resolution of the Corporation declaring the same to be a farmed-out house shall first have been recalled under the provisions of this part of this order. 16. A copy of an entry made in the register kept under this part of this order purporting to be certified by the person having the charge of such register to be a true copy shall be received in all courts and on all occasions whatsoever as evidence and shall be prima facie proof of all matters therein registered without the production of the register or of any document on which the entry is founded or proof of any signature and every person applying at a reasonable time shall be furnished by the person having charge of such register with a certified copy of any entry on payment of twopence. 17. The Corporation may make vary or repeal bye-laws respecting farmed-out houses in the city for all or any of the following purposes (that is to say) (1) Prescribing the procedure to be adopted in making application for the renewal of registration the particulars to be furnished by applicants for such renewal and any other matter necessary for the execution of this part of this order: (2) The keeping and well ordering of such houses: (3) Fixing the number of persons who may occupy each such house or each apartment therein: (4) Enforcing sufficient drainage water-closet accommodation sinks and the provision of a water supply to the same and other appliances and means of cleanliness and the provision of ashpits or ashbins for such houses: (5) Enforcing sufficient lighting and ventilation of such houses and cleanliness of the walls ceilings and floors thereof and all fittings and furnishings including bedding therein: (6) Securing by the keeper of a farmed-out house the sweeping and wash- (7) Prohibiting the placing of gates or other obstructions in or on the (9) Requiring such keeper where such house is let or rented as a fur- (10) Fixing the hours for letting purposes and the minimum period for which such house may be let: |