by the owner, and the Local Government Board have deter- do the work required to be done. (3) Any expenses incurred by the local authority under this section may be recovered in a court of summary jurisdiction, together with interest at a rate not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum from the date of service of a demand for the same till payment thereof from the owner, and until recovery of such expenses and interest the same shall be a charge on the premises. In ali summary proceedings by the local authority for the recovery of any such expenses, the time within which such proceedings may be taken shall be reckoned from the date of the service of notice of demand. (4) The local authority may by order declare any such expenses to be payable by monthly or annual instalments within a period not exceeding thirty years with interest at a rate not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum from the date of the service of notice of demand until the whole amount is paid, and any such instalments and interest or any part thereof may be recovered in a summary manner from the owner or occupier, and, if recovered from the occupier, may be deducted by him from the rent of such premises. (5) In this section "owner" shall have the same meaning as in the Public Health Act, 1875. (6) This section shall be deemed to be part of Part II. of the principal Act. Information to Tenants of Houses for the Working Classes. 29. In the case of houses intended or used for occupation by the working classes, the name and address of the medical officer of health for the district and of the landlord or other person who is directly responsible for keeping the house in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation shall be inscribed in every rent book or, where a rent book is not used, shall be delivered in writing to the tenant at the commencement of the tenancy and before any rent is demanded or collected; and, if any person demands or collects any rent in contravention of the provisions of this section, he shall in respect of each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings. Power to authorise Superior Landlord to enter and execute Works. 30. (1) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the court, on an application in accordance with rules of court of any person entitled to any interest in any land used in whole or in part as a site for houses for the working classes, that the premises on the land are or are likely to become dangerous or injurious to health or unfit for ⚫human habitation, and that the interests of the applicant are thereby prejudiced, or that the applicant should be entrusted with the carrying out of a scheme of reconstruction or improvement approved by the local authority of the district in which the land is situate, the court 1919. 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 35. 1919. may make an order empowering the applicant forthwith to enter on 9 & 10 Geo. 5. the land and within the time fixed by the order to execute such c. 35. works as may be necessary, and may order that any lease or agreement for a lease held from the applicant and any derivative underlease shall be determined, subject to such conditions and to the payment of such compensation as the court may think just. (2) The court shall include in its order provisions to secure that the proposed works are carried out and may authorise the local authority in whose area the land is situated or which has approved a scheme of reconstruction or improvement under this section to exercise such supervision or take such action as may be necessary for the purpose. (3) For the purposes of this section "' court means the High Court of Justice, and the Court of Chancery of the county palatine of Lancaster or Durham or the county court, where those courts respectively have jurisdiction. Extension of Powers under Settled Land Acts. 31. The powers conferred upon a tenant for life by the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890, shall include the following further powers: (a) A power to make a grant in fee simple or absolutely, or a Penalty on Re-letting House ordered to be Closed. 32. If any owner of a house in respect of which a closing order is in force, or any other person, lets or attempts to let or occupies or permits to be occupied that house or any part thereof as a dwellinghouse, he shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds. Amendment of section 11 of Principal Act. 1919. c. 35. 33. The enactments regulating the provision to be made under 9 & 10 Geo. 5. Part I. of the principal Act for the accommodation of persons of the working classes displaced by the operation of a scheme under that Part shall be the same in cases where the area comprised in the scheme is situate in the county or city of London as in other cases, and accordingly subsection (1) of section eleven of that Act, and in subsection (2) the words "where" and " comprises an area situate elsewhere than in the county or city of London, it " shall be repealed. Arrangements between the Local Government Board and other 34. The Local Government Board may make arrangements with any other Government Department for the exercise or performance by that Department of any of their powers and duties under the Housing Acts which in their opinion could be more conveniently so exercised and performed, and in such case the Department and officers of the Department shall have the same powers and duties as are by the Housing Acts conferred on the Local Government Board and their officers. Provisions of Housing Acts not to be affected by the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (War Restrictions) Act, 1915. 35. Nothing in the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (War 5 & 6 Geo. 5. Restrictions) Act, 1915, or in the enactments amending that Act, shall be deemed to affect the provisions of section seventeen of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, or to prevent a local authority from obtaining possession of any house the possession of which is required by them for the purpose of exercising their powers under the Housing Acts or under any scheme made under those Acts. Compensation in Cases of Subsidence. c. 97. c. 40. 36. Notwithstanding anything in section fifty of the Brine Pumping 54 & 55 Vict. (Compensation for Subsidence) Act, 1891, a local authority or county council shall be entitled to compensation in accordance with the provisions of that Act in respect of any injury or damage to any houses belonging to such local authority or council, and provided under a housing scheme towards the losses on which the Local Government Board is liable to contribute under this Act. Application of Act to New Forest. 37. The provision of houses under the Housing Acts shall be deemed to be a local sanitary requirement for the purpose of the New Forest (Sale of Lands for Public Purposes) Act, 1902. Provided that the total area of land being part of the New Forest which may be sold or let for the provision of houses shall not exceed 30 acres. Extension of Powers of Commissioners of Woods. 38. The Commissioners of Woods may under and in accordance with the provisions of the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1906, sell or let to a local authority for the purposes of Part III. of the principal 1 Edw. 7. c. cxcviii. Local and Private. 1919. Act any part of the land described on the duplicate plans which have 9 & 10 Geo. 5. been deposited with the Clerk of Parliaments and the Clerk of the c. 35. 3 Edw. 7. c. 57. House of Commons notwithstanding that such land may be part or parcel of a royal park, if the Local Government Board, after holding a local inquiry, are satisfied that the acquisition of the land by the local authority for such purposes as aforesaid is desirable in the national interest. Procedure and Minor Amendments of Housing Acts. 39. (1) The amendments specified in the second column of the Second Schedule to this Act (which relate to procedure under Part I. and Part II. of the principal Act and to minor details) shall be made in the provisions of the principal Act the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1903, and the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, specified in the first column of that schedule. (2) Sections fourteen and fifteen of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, shall be deemed to be part of Part II. of the principal Act. Construction 40. This Part of this Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and any provisions of this Part of the Act which supersede or amend any provisions of the principal Act shall be deemed to be part of that Part of the principal Act in which the provisions superseded or amended are contained, and reference in this Part of this Act to the principal Act or to any provision of the principal Act shall be construed as references to that Act or provision as amended by any subsequent enactment, including this Part of this Act; In this Part of this Act The expression "houses for the working classes has the same meaning as the expression "lodging houses for the working classes" has in the principal Act; The expression "sale" includes sale in consideration of an The expression "public utility society" means a society registered enactment, with respect to new buildings including the drainage. Application to London of certain Provisions of the Housing Acts. (a) the London County Council shall be the local authority for the county, to the exclusion of any other authority, so far as regards the provision of any houses outside the administrative county of London; (b) the council of a metropolitan borough shall be the local authority for the metropolitan borough, to the exclusion of any other authority, so far as regards the provision of houses within the metropolitan borough; Provided (i) that nothing in this section shall prejudice or affect the rights, powers and privileges of the London County Council in regard to any lands, buildings or works acquired, provided or carried out by the County Council before the date of the passing of this Act; and are (ii) that where the London County Council satisfied that there is situate within the area of a metropolitan borough land suitable for development for housing, the county council may submit a scheme for the approval of the Local Government Board for the development of such land to meet the needs of districts situate outside the area of such borough, and the county council may carry into effect any scheme which is so approved, and such approval shall have the like effect as if it had been given under section one of this Act; (c) the Local Government Board may by order direct that any of the powers or duties of the council of a metropolitan borough under Part III. of the principal Act shall be transferred to the London County Council, or that any of the powers or duties of the London County Council under Part III. of the principal Act shall be transferred to the council of a metropolitan borough. (2) Any loss which may be incurred by the council of a metropolitan borough in carrying out a scheme to which section seven of this Act applies shall be repaid to them by the London County Council, and any payments so made by the London County Council shall be deemed 1919. 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 35. |