Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1851 c. 34 |
| Year | 1851 |
(14 & 15 Vict.) C A P. XXXIV.
[24th July 1851]
'WHEREAS it is desirable, for the Health, Comfort, and Welfare of the Inhabitants of Towns and populous Districts, to encourage the Establishment therein of well-ordered Lodging Houses for the Labouring Classes:' Be it 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,
I Short Title of Act.
I. That in citing this Act for any Purpose it shall be sufficient to use the Expression ‘TheLabouring Classes Lodging Houses Act, 1851.’
II Act may be adopted in certain Boroughs and Parishes.
II. That this Act may be adopted for any incorporated Borough inEngland regulated under an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations or any Charter granted in pursuance of the said Act, or any Act passed for the Amendment thereof, and also for any Place being the District of any Local Board of Health regulated under the Public Health Act, 1848, or any Act passed for the Amendment thereof, and also for any Place being the District within the Limits of any Act for the paying, lighting watching, draining, or otherwise improving of such Place, and also, with the Approval of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for any Parish in England , having, according to the then last Census, a Population of not less than Ten thousand, or being a Parish in any such incorporated Borough, having, according to the then last Census, a Population of not less than Ten thousand, and also with the like Approval for each of several Parishes as by this Act in that Behalf provided.
III Interpretation of Terms.
III. That in this Act the following Words and Expressions shall have the several Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction; that is to say,
‘Parish’ shall mean every Place maintaining its own Poor, and having a Vestry:
‘Borough’ shall mean City, Borough, Port, Cinque Port, or Town Corporate:
‘District’ shall mean any Place being the District of such a Local Board of Health, and shall also mean any Place being the District within the Limits of such an Improvement Act:
‘Ratepayers’ shall mean all Persons for the Time being assessed to and paying Rates for the Relief of the Poor of the Parish:
‘Churchwardens’ shall mean also Chapelwardens or other Persons discharging the Duties of Churchwardens:
‘Overseers’ shall mean also any Persons authorized and required to make and collect or cause to be collected the Rate for the Relief of the Poor of the Parish, and acting instead of Overseers of the Poor:
‘Vestry’ shall mean the Inhabitants of the Parish lawfully assembled in Vestry, or for any of the Purposes for which Vestries are holden, except in those Parishes in which there is a Select Vestry elected under an Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third, intituled , or elected under an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled England Wales, or elected under the Provisions of any Local Act of Parliament for the Government of any Parish by Vestries, in which Parishes it shall mean such Select Vestry, and shall also mean any Body of Persons, by whatever Name distinguished, acting, by virtue of any Act of Parliament, Prescription, Custom, or otherwise, as or instead of a Vestry or Select Vestry:
‘Board’ shall mean, as regards the District of such a Local Board of Health, such Local Board of Health for the Time being in Office and acting as such Local Board of Health, and, as regards the District within the Limits of such an Improvement Act, the Commissioners, Trustees, or other Body of Persons by whatever Name distinguished for the Time being in Office and acting in the Execution of such Act:
‘Commissioners’ shall mean the Commissioners appointed in accordance with this Act for any Parish, and for the Time being in Office and acting as such Commissioners:
‘Clerk’ shall mean, as regards an incorporated Borough, the Town Clerk of such Borough, and, as regards a District, the Clerk of the Board of such District, and, as regards a Parish, the Clerk appointed pursuant to this Act by the Commissioners:
‘Justice’ shall mean Justice of the Peace for the County, Riding, Division, Liberty, Borough, District, Parish, or Place where the Matter requiring the Cognizance of Justices shall arise:
‘Improvement Rates’ shall mean the Rates, Tolls, Rents, Income, and other Monies whatsoever which under the Provisions of any such Improvement Act shall be applicable for the general Purposes of such Act:
‘Lands’ shall mean Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, of whatsoever Nature or Tenure:
Words importing the Masculine Gender shall include the Feminine.
Words of the Plural Number shall include the Singular, and Words of the Singular Number shall include the Plural.
IV Council of any Borough may adopt the Provisions of this Act.
IV. That the Council of any such Borough as aforesaid may, if they think fit, determine that this Act shall be adopted for such Borough, and then and in such Case such of the Provisions of this Act as are applicable in that Behalf shall thenceforth take effect and come into operation in such Borough, and this Act shall be carried into execution in such Borough, in accordance with such Provisions and the Laws for the Time being in force relating to the Municipal Corporation of such Borough.
V Expenses of carrying this Act into execution in a Borough shall be charged upon the Borough Fund, and Income arising to be carried to the same.
V. That the Expenses of carrying this Act into execution in any such Borough in which the Council shall have resolved to adopt this Act for their Borough shall be chargeable upon and paid out of the Borough Fund, and for that Purpose the Council may levy with and as Part of the Borough Rate, or by a separate Rate to be assessed, levied, paid, and recovered in like Manner and with the like Powers and Remedies in all respects as the Borough Rate, such Sums of Money as shall be from Time to Time necessary for defraying such Expenses, and shall apply the same accordingly, as if the Expense of carrying this Act into execution were an Expense necessarily incurred in carrying into effect the Provisions of the said Act of the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty; and the Income arising from the Lodging Houses in an Borough shall be paid to the Credit of the Borough Fund thereof; and the Council shall keep distinct Accounts of their Receipts, Payments, Credits, and Liabilities with reference to the Execution of this Act, to be called ‘The Lodging Houses Account.’
VI Any Local Board of Health may adopt the Provisions of this Act if they think fit.
VI. That the Board of any such District, being the District of a Local Board of Health, may, if they think fit, determine that this Act shall be adopted for such District, and then and in such Case such of the Provisions of this Act as are applicable in that Behalf shall thenceforth take effect and come into operation in such District, and this Act shall be carried into execution in such District, in accordance with such Provisions and the Laws for the Time being in force relating to such Board.
VII On Requisition of Ratepayers Board to postpone Proceedings till after next Day for Election of Members of Board.
VII. Provided always, That the Board shall give not less than Twenty-eight nor more than Forty-two Days public Notice of their Intention to take into consideration the Propriety of adopting this Act, and of the Time and Place for holding the Meeting at which they will take it into consideration; and if there be presented to the Board at that Meeting a Memorial in Writing, signed by not less than One Tenth in Value of the Persons liable to be rated to a General District Rate made by the Board, and requesting the Board to postpone such Consideration until after the then next yearly Day for the Election of Members of the Board, then and in such Case such Consideration shall be postponed until after that Day, and shall be entered on as soon after that Day as the Board think fit.
VIII Expenses of carrying this Act into execution by Local Board of Health shall be charged on the District Fund, and Income arising to be carried to the same.
VIII. That the Expenses of carrying this Act into execution in any such District, being the District of a Local Board of Health in which the Board shall have resolved to adopt this Act for their District, shall be chargeable upon and paid out of the Monies from Time to Time carried to the Credit of the District Fund Account of such District, and for that Purpose the Board may levy with and as Part of the General District Rate of such District, or by a separate Rate to be assessed, levied, paid, and recovered in like Manner and with the like Powers and Remedies in all respects as the General Rate of such District, such Sums of Money as shall be from Time to Time necessary for defraying such Expenses, and shall...
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