HC Deb 19 July 1923 vol 166 cc2677-9
MINOR AMENDMENTS OF HOUSING ACTS.
Enactments to be amended. Nature of Amendment.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, 63 & 54 Viet, c. 70. s. 38 (10) The words "at the expense of the owner" shall be omitted, and after the words "alter the same" there shall be added the words "and the expenses of such abatement or alteration shall be recoverable from the owner summarily as a civil debt."
s. 39 (1) In paragraph (a) for the words "area of the dwelling-house of which such building" there shall be substituted the words "area of which such building," and in paragraph (b) for the words "the demolition or the reconstruction and rearrangement of the said buildings or of some of them is necessary to remedy the said evils" there shall be substituted the words "the most satisfactory method of dealing with the said evils is by the demolition or the reconstruction and rearrangement of the said buildings or of some of them.
s. 44 The whole section shall be omitted.
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909. s. 12 For the words "four inhabitant householders of" there shall be substituted the words "justice of the peace acting for the district, or by any four or more local government electors therein," and after the words "exercise their powers under" there shall be inserted the words "Part II or," and for the words "that Part" there shall be substituted the words "the said Part II or the said Part III, as the case may be."
s. 59 (1) At the end of the sub-section the following words shall be inserted "or are contained in any general Act or local Act, or Order in force in the area."
s. 69 (2) After the words "medical officer of health of a" there shall be inserted the word "county."
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1919. s. 26 (2) For the words "the Public Health Acts" there shall be substituted the words "the Public Health Act, 1875, or the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, as the case may be."

Lords Amendment:

In paragraph "Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, 53 and 54 Vict., c. 70; Section 38 (10)," after the word "owner" ["at the expense of the owner"], insert "thereof"

Agreed to.

Lords Amendment:

In paragraph "Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, 53 and 54 Viet., c. 70," after paragraph "Section 39 (1)" insert:

"s. 39 (2) For the words from 'be served in manner provided in Part

of the principal Act have effect as if references to dwelling-houses included references to other buildings.

Lords Amendment:

In paragraph 3, after the word "forty-one", insert "of the principal Act."

Agreed to.

I of this Act' to the end of the Sub-section there shall be substituted the words 'be published and served as provided in Section seven of this Act.'"
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

In moving to agree with the Lords in this Amendment, it is necessary to give a word of explanation. This is not a drafting but a Consolidating Amendment. In the Section referred to, Section 39 (2) of the Act of 1890, the provisions for service of a notice in the case of a scheme under Part II are wholly different from those under Part I. The purpose of this Amendment is to consolidate the two and bring one into line with the other. It will be of considerable assistance to us when we carry out what we hope to do before long: a general Consolidation of the Housing Acts.

Lords Amendment:

In paragraph "Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, 53 & 54 Viet., c. 70," after paragraph "Section 44," insert

"s. 45 For the words 'inhabitant householders' there shall be substituted the words 'four or more local government electors in the district.'"

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.—[Mr. Chamberlain.]

Mr. R. DAVIES

What is the intention of this Amendment? There will be persons who will be inhabitant householders who will not be local government electors.

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

It is merely to bring the provision into line with the altered procedure in other parts of the Act. The Act of 1890 is very old, and in the later Acts the words "four or more local Government electors" have been substituted for "inhabitant householders.'

Lords Amendments:

In paragraph "Housing and Town Planning, Etc., Act, 1909; Section 12": Leave out the words and after the words 'exercise their powers under' there shall be inserted the