Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897 : 60 & 61 Vict. Ch. 38.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1897]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897 : 60 & 61 Vict. Ch. 38. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    l>ehalf of the Board, or of any local authority with consent of the A.D. 1897. Board, by proceedings in any competent Court. PART V. Begulation of Common Lodging-Houses. 89. The local authority shall cause a register to be kept, in which Common lodg- shall be entered the names and residences of the keepers of all j,/r^gistereS common lodging-houses within the district of the local authority, and the situation of every such house, and the number of lodgers authorised according to this Act to be kept therein, and in each apartment thereof ; provided that the keeper of every common lodging-house shall apply to the local authority at or previous to the fifteenth day of May in every year for a renewal of such registration; and the local authority may refuse to register any liouse which they do not consider suitable for the purposes of a common lodging-house, and as the keeper of a common lodging- house any person who does not produce to the local authority a certificate of character in such form as the local authority shall -direct, but notwithstanding such certificate the local authority may, if they see fit, make further inquiry, and may thereafter refuse to register, if they are satisfied that the person applying is not qualified to be the keeper of a common lodging-house; and the local authority may from time to time, with the approval of the Board, raise or diminish the sum payable per night, according to which, ^s in this Act mentioned, it is ascertained whether a house or part thereof is a common lodging-house, but so as not to exceed sixpence per night. 90. It shall not be lawful to keep or use as a common lodging- No lodger to . house any house, or to receive or retain any lodgers therein, unless received in such house shall have been inspected for that purpose by the whouse^fil' inspector of common lodging-houses for the district, and approved it has been by the local authority, and shall have been and be registered as by inspected and this Act provided : and if any person shall contravene this enactment ' he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act^ and if, in the opinion of the local authority, any common lodging-house on the register, or the keeper thereof, shall cease to be suitable for the purpose, the local authority may present a petition to the sheriff for authority to remove such house from the register either permanently or until there is a change of circumstances, and the sheriff, if he thinks fit, may grant warrant accordingly. 91. A copy of an entry made in a register kept UTider this Act, Evidence of purporting to be certified by the person having the charge of such register, 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 things therein registered, without the production of the register, or of any document, act, or thing, on which the entry is founded, or proof of the signature; and every person applying at a reasonable time shall be furnished by the person having such charge with a certified copy of any such entry for payment of twopence.