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.