§ (1) The last foregoing Section shall as respects contracts to which that Section 100 applies take effect as if the condition implied by that Section included an undertaking that the house shall, during the holding, be kept by the landlord in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation.
101§ (2)If it appears to the local authority within the meaning of Part II. of the principal Act that the undertaking implied by virtue of this Section is not complied with in the case of any house to which it applies, the authority shall, if a closing order is not made with respect to the house, by written notice require the landlord, within a reasonable time, not being less than fourteen days, specified in the notice, to execute such works as the authority may specify in the notice as being necessary to make the house in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation.
§ (3) If the notice is not complied with the authority may, at the expiration of the time specified in the notice, do the work required to be done and recover the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the landlord as a civil debt in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, or, if they think fit, the authority may by order declare any such expenses to be payable by annual instalments within a period not exceeding that of the duration of the holding under the contract, with interest at a rate not exceeding five pounds per cent, per annum until the whole amount is paid, and any such instalments or interest or any part thereof may be recovered from the landlord as a civil debt in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.
§ (4) A landlord may appeal to the Local Government Board against any notice requiring him to execute works under this Section, and against any demand for the recovery of expenses from him under this Section of order made with respect to those expenses under this Section by the
102§ authority, by giving notice of appeal to the Board within fourteen days after the notice is received, or the demand or order is made, as the case may be, and no proceedings shall be taken in respect of such notice requiring works, order or demand, whilst the appeal is pending.
§ (5) In this Section, the expression "landlord" means any person who lets the house under any contract referred to in this Section, and includes his successors in title, and the expression "house" includes part of a house.
§ Sections forty-nine and fifty of the principal Act as amended by Section thirteen of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1903 (which relate to the service of notices and the description of owner in proceedings), shall apply for the purposes of this Section, with the substitution, where required, of the landlord for the owner of a dwelling-house.
§ (6)Any remedy given by this Section for non-compliance with the undertaking implied by virtue of this Section, shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other remedy available to the tenant against the landlord, either at common law or otherwise.
§ Amendment made: To leave out the words, in Sub-section (3), "duration of the holding under the contract," and insert "interest of the landlord in the house nor in any case five years."—[Mr. Burns.]
§ Question put, "That the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill."
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 167; Noes, 32.
103| Division No. 552.] | AYES. | [8.12 p.m. |
| Abraham, W. (Cork, N.E.) | Corbett, C. H. (Sussex, E. Grinstead) | Glendinning, R. G. |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Glover, Thomas |
| Adkins, W. Ryland D. | Cotton, Sir H. J. S. | Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford |
| Agar-Robartes, Hon. T. C. R. | Cox, Harold | Grayson, Albert Victor |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E.) | Crean, Eugene | Greenwood, Hamar (York) |
| Balfour, Robert (Lanark) | Crooks, William | Gulland, John W. |
| Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight) | Crosfield, A. H. | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius |
| Barnard, E. B. | Cullinan, J. | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) |
| Barnes, G. N. | Davies, Timothy (Fulham) | Hardie, J. Keir (Merthyr Tydvill |
| Barry, Redmond J. (Tyrone, N.) | Dickinson, W. H. (St. Pancras, N.) | Hart-Davies, T. |
| Beale, W. P. | Dickson-Poynder, Sir John P. | Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) |
| Beauchamp, E. | Dobson, Thomas W. | Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) |
| Berridge, T. H. D. | Duckworth, Sir James | Hemmerde, Edward George |
| Bright, J. A. | Duffy, William J. | Henderson, Arthur (Durham) |
| Brodie, H. C. | Dunn, A. Edward (Camborne) | Henderson, J. Mc D. (Aberdeen, W.) |
| Brooke, Stopford | Evans, Sir S. T. | Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles E. H. |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Everett, R. Lacey | Hodge, John |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Farrell, James Patrick | Hogan, Michael |
| Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Ferguson, R. C. Munro | Holden, Sir E. Hopkinson |
| Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R. | Ffrench, Peter | Holland, Sir William Henry |
| Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S. | Flynn, James Christopher | Holt, Richard Durning |
| Cleland, J. W. | Fullerton, Hugh | Hope, W. Bateman (Somerset, N.) |
| Clough, William | Furness, Sir Christopher | Hudson, Walter |
| Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) | Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbert John | Idris, T. H. W. |
| Jackson, R. S. | Norman, Sir Henry | Sheehy, David |
| Johnson, John (Gateshead) | Nussey, Sir Willans | Silcock, Thomas Ball |
| Jowett, F. W. | O'Brien, K. (Tipperary, Mid) | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Joyce, Michael | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Kekewich, Sir George | O'Donnell, John (Mayo, S.) | Strachey, Sir Edward |
| Kilbride, Denis | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| Laidlaw, Robert | Parker, James (Halifax) | Tennant, Sir Edward (Salisbury) |
| Lamont, Norman | Paul, Herbert | Tennant, H. J. (Berwickshire) |
| Lever, A. Levy (Essex, Harwich) | Pearson, W. H. M. (Suffolk, Eye) | Thompson, J. W. H. (Somerset, E.) |
| Lever, W. H. (Cheshire, Wirral) | Philipps, Col. Ivor (Southampton) | Tomkinson, James |
| Lewis, John Herbert | Philips, John (Longford, S.) | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| Lundon, T. | Pickers gill, Edward Hare | Tuke, Sir John Batty |
| Luttrell, Hugh Fownes | Pollard, Dr. G. H. | Verney, F. W. |
| Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Power, Patrick Joseph | Vivian, Henry |
| Mackarness, Frederic C. | Radford, G. H. | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) |
| Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. | Rainy, A. Rolland | Wardle, George J. |
| Mac Neill, John Gordon Swift | Reddy, M. | Waring, Walter |
| Mac Veigh, Charles (Donegal, E.) | Rees, J. D. | Warner, Thomas Courtenay T. |
| M'Laren, H. D. (Stafford, W.) | Richards, T. F. (Wolverhampton, W.) | Waterlow, D. S. |
| M'Micking, Major G. | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) | White, J. Dundas (Dumbartonshire) |
| Marks, G. Croydon (Launceston) | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) | White, Sir Luke (York, E.R.) |
| Massie, J. | Robinson, S | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Masterman, C. F. G. | Robson, Sir William Snowdon | Wilson, Henry J. (York, W.R.) |
| Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Roche, John (Galway, E.) | Wilson, P. W. (St. Pancras, S.) |
| Micklem, Nathaniel | Rogers, F. E. Newman | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Molteno, Percy Alport | Rowlands, J. | Winfrey, R. |
| Morgan, G. Hay (Cornwall) | Runciman, Rt. Hon. Walter | Wood, T. M'Kinnon |
| Morrell, Philip | Russell, Rt. Hon. T. W. | Young, Samuel |
| Morse, L. L | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Schwann, Sir C. E. (Manchester) | |
| Muldoon, John | Scott, A. H. (Ashton-under-Lyne) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. |
| Myer, Horatio | Seely, Colonel | Joseph Pease and Captain Norton. |
| Nannetti, Joseph P. | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel | |
| NOES. | ||
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Foster, P. S. | Pretyman, E. G. |
| Butcher, Samuel Henry | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (B. S. Edm'ds.) | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Carlile, E. Hildred | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Cave, George | Hunt, Rowland | Sheffield, Sir Berkeley George D. |
| Cecil, Lord R. (Marylebone, E.) | Lambton, Hon. Frederick William | Stanier, Beville |
| Cochrane, Hon. Thomas H. A. E. | Lane-Fox, G. R. | Staveley-Hill, Henry (Staffordshire) |
| Craig, Captain James (Down, E.) | Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. | Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester) |
| Craik, Sir Henry | Lyttelton, Rt. Hon. Alfred | Valentia, Viscount |
| Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | M'Arthur Charles | |
| Fell, Arthur | Morpeth, Viscount | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. |
| Fletcher, J S. | Morrison-Bell, Captain | Mitchell-Thomson and Mr. Gibbs. |
| Forster, Henry William | Nicholson, William G. (Petersfield) |
§ Amendment of Procedure, for Closing Orders and Demolition Orders.