PART VProvision of housing accommodation

Management, &c, of local authority's houses

112Byelaws for regulation of local authority's houses

(1)

A local authority may make byelaws for the management, use and regulation of houses provided by them.

(2)

A local authority shall as respects lodging-houses provided by them (that is to say, houses not occupied as separate dwellings) by byelaws make sufficient provision for the following purposes—

(a)

for securing that the lodging-houses shall be under the management and control of the officers, servants or others appointed or employed in that behalf by the local authority,

(b)

for securing due separation at night of men and boys above eight years old from women and girls,

(c)

for preventing damage, disturbance, interruption and in decent and offensive language and behaviour and nuisances,

(d)

for determining the duties of the officers, servants and others appointed by the local authority,

and a printed copy or a sufficient abstract of the byelaws relating to lodging-houses shall be put up and at all times kept in every room therein.

(3)

The Minister shall be the confirming authority as respects byelaws made under this section.

(4)

The provisions of section two hundred and seventy-seven of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, shall apply to byelaws under this section as respects the City of London.