Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847

116 For the regulation and inspection of lodging houses. U.K.

It shall not be lawful to keep or use as a public lodging house within the limits of the special Act any house, not being a licensed victualling house, which shall be related to the relief of the poor on a less sum than ten pounds, nor in any case unless such house shall have been registered as a lodging house in a book to be kept by the commissioners for that purpose; and every house shall be deemed a public lodging house within the meaning of this Act in which persons are harboured or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at one time, or any part of which is let for any term less than a week.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Reference to poor rate to be construed as reference to general rate: General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9), s. 116(2)