§ Where any Bill contains or revives or extends power to take compulsorily or by agreement any land in any local area as denned for the purposes of this Order, and such taking involves or may involve the taking in that area of any house or houses occupied either wholly or partially by thirty or more persons of the working class, whether as tenants or lodgers, the promoters shall deposit in the Private Bill Office, and at the Office of the Central Authority, on or before the 21st day of December, a statement giving the description and postal address of each of such houses, its number on the deposited Plans, the parish in which it is situate, and the number (so far as can be ascertained) of persons of the working class residing in it, and also a copy of so much of the deposited Plans (if any) as relates thereto.
§ This Order shall not apply where a statement in pursuance of this Order was deposited in respect of the Act, the powers of which are proposed to be revived or extended.
§ For the purposes of tins Order the expression "local area" means—
- (1) as respects London the Administrative County of London:
- (2) as respects England and Wales (outside London), any borough, or other urban district, and elsewhere than in a borough or other urban district, any parish and
- (3) as respects Ireland, any urban district;
§ The expression "house" means any house or part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling;
§ The expression "working class" means mechanics, artisans, labourers, and others working for wages, hawkers, costermongers, 2897 persons not working for wages but working at some trade or handicraft without employing others except members of their own family, and persons, other than domestic servants, whose income in any case does not exceed an average of thirty shillings a week, and the families of any of such persons who may be residing with them;
§ The expression "central authority" means, as regards England and Wales, the Ministry of Health, and as regards Ireland, the Local Government Board for Ireland;
§ The expression "Bill" includes a Bill confirming a Provisional Order.
§ Amendments made: Leave out the words "Central Authority" ["at the office of the Central Authority"], and insert instead thereof the words "Ministry of Health."
§ In paragraph (1), at the end, insert the word "and."
§ Leave out paragraph (3).
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Leave out the words
The expression 'central authority' means, as regards England and Wales, the Ministry of Health, and as regards Ireland, the Local Government Board for Ireland.