Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854

For the Regulation of Lodging Houses.

XLV. It shall not be lawful to keep or use as a Lodging House within any Town the Population of which, as ascertained by the last Population Returns made pursuant to Act of Parliament, shall be above Three thousand Inhabitants, any House, not being a Licensed Victualling House, unless such House shall have been registered as a Lodging House in a Book to be kept by the Commissioners for that Purpose.