and six of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in the case of an urban or rural district council for the purpose of the Public Health Acts, and those Acts shall apply accordingly with the necessary modifications. c. 41. (6.) Money borrowed under this Act shall not, in the case of a county council, be reckoned as part of the total debt of a county for the purposes of section sixty-nine, subsection two, of the Local Government Act, 1888, 51 & 52 Vict. and shall not, in the case of an urban or rural district council, be reckoned as part of their debt for the purpose of the limitation on borrowing under section two hundred and thirty-four, subsection two, of the Public Health 38 & 39 Vict. Act, 1875. c. 55. (7.) The Public Works Loan Commissioners may in manner provided by the Public Works Loans Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vict. lend any money which may be borrowed by a local authority for the purposes of this Act. (8.) Any capital money received or retained by a local authority in payment or discharge of any advance under this Act, or in respect of the sale or other disposal of any house taken possession of under this Act, shall be applied, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, either in repayment of debt or for any other purpose to which capital money may be applied. (9.) Separate accounts shall be kept by every local authority of their receipts and expenditure under this Act. (10.) In the application of this Act to the county of London any sanitary authority (a) shall have the same powers as an urban district council, and the expenses of such authority shall be paid out of the general rate or in the case of the city of London out of the consolidated rate; and c. 89. Residence and owner ship. Short title. (b) may borrow in like manner as they can borrow for the purposes of the Metropolis Management Acts, 1855 to 1893; and those Acts shall apply with the necessary modifications. 10. (1.) A person shall not be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be resident in a house unless he is both the occupier of and resident in that house. (2.) For the purposes of this Act "ownership" shall be such interest or combination of interest in a house as, together with the interest of the purchaser of the ownership, will constitute either a fee simple in possession or a leasehold interest in possession of at least sixty years unexpired, at the date of the purchase. (3.) Where the ownership of a house is acquired by means of an advance. under this Act, the purchaser of the ownership, or, in the case of any devolution or transfer, the person in whom the interest of the purchaser is for the time being vested, shall be the proprietor of the house for the purposes of this Act. 11. ("General modifications as regards Scotland.") Omitted from this volume. 12. ("Local authorities and rates in Scotland.") Omitted from this volume. 13. ("Preparation of titles, &c., in Scotland.") Omitted from this volume. 14. (“Application of Act to Ireland.") Omitted from this volume. 15. ("Registration of title in Ireland.") Omitted from this volume. 16. This Act may be cited as the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899. SCHEDULES SCHEDULE A I, A.B., clerk of the local authority of with reference to bond and disposition in security [or other security] dated [insert date], and recorded in the General Register of Sasines for the county of [or as the case may be], on the for £ day of Dated at Section 11. this day of SCHEDULE B Section 11. No. 1 I, A.B., clerk of the local authority of with reference to bond and disposition in security [or other security] dated [insert date], and recorded in the General Register of Sasines for the county of [or as the case may be], on the for £ day of granted by C.D. [name and designation] over the house [shortly describe same], do hereby certify that the principal and interest secured by said bond and disposition in security (or other security) have been fully paid, and I grant this certificate in terms of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899. Dated at this day of No. 2 I, A.B., clerk of the local authority of with reference to the within (or above) written bond dated [insert date], and recorded in the General Register of Sasines for the county of the case may be], on the day of [or as for £ granted by C.D. [name and designation], do hereby certify that the principal and interest secured by said bond and disposition in security (or other security) have been fully paid, and I grant this certificate in terms of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899. Dated at this day of HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1900. [63 & 64 VICT. CH. 59.] An Act to amend Part III of the Housing of the Working BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, powers out 1. Where any council, other than a rural district Exercise of council, have adopted Part Three of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act"), they may, for supplying the needs of their district, establish or acquire lodging houses for the working classes under that Part outside their district. Adopted. Adoption is no longer necessary-section 1 of the 1909 Act. This section was passed to remove a difficulty which had arisen in London. As to London now-see section 41 of the 1919 Act, and as to joint schemes affecting the areas of two or more local authorities-see sections 1 (6) and 3 (3) thereof. On the general subject of these houses-see section 57 of the 1890 Act and notes thereto, but all the provisions applying to the houses will apply equally whether they are inside or outside the district, even including the making of byelaws under section 62 of the 1890 Act. Similarly land outside the district can be acquired compulsorily. 2. ("Adoption of Part Three of Act by rural district side district. |