Housing of The Working Classes Act, 1890

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Application of part of Act to London.

18 &19 Vict. c. 120.

46. This part of this Act shall apply to the administrative county of London with the following modifications:—

(1) The provisions of the Public Health Acts relating to private improvement expenses and to private improvement rates shall, for the purpose of this part of this Act, extend to the county and to the city of London, and in the construction of the said provisions, as respects the county of London, any local authority in that county, and as respects the city of London the Commissioners of Sewers,[¹] shall be deemed to be the urban authority.

(2) The raising of sums required for purchase money or compensation payable under this part of this Act shall be a purpose for which the London County Council or the Commissioners of Sewers [¹] of the city of London, may borrow under Part One of this Act, and a purpose for which a vestry or district board [²] may borrow under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the provisions of Part One of this Act with respect to borrowing, and sections one hundred and eighty-three to one hundred and ninety-one of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, shall apply and have effect accordingly.

(3) The London County Council may, if they think fit, lend to a local authority in the administrative county of London the sums borrowed in pursuance of this part of this Act.

[Sub-s. (4) rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.)]

(5) Where it appears to the county council, whether in the exercise of the powers of a vestry or district board [²] or on the representation of a vestry or district board [²] or otherwise, that a scheme under this part of this Act ought to be made, the council may take proceedings for preparing and obtaining the confirmation of a scheme, and the provisions of this Act respecting the scheme shall apply in like manner as if they were the vestry or district board,[²] and all expenses of and incidental to the scheme and carrying the same into effect shall, save as herein-after mentioned, be borne by the county fund.

(6) Where the council consider that such expenses, or a contribution in respect of them, ought to be paid or made by a vestry or district board,[²] they may apply to a Secretary of State,[³] and the Secretary of State,[³] if satisfied that, having regard to the size of the area, to the number, position, structure, sanitary condition, and neighbourhood of the buildings to be dealt with, the vestry or district board [²] ought to pay, or make a contribution in respect of, the said expenses, the Secretary of State [³] may order such payment or contribution to be made, and the amount thereof shall be a simple contract debt from the vestry or district board [²] to the council.[⁴]

(7) The county council may, if they think fit, pay or contribute to the payment of the expenses of carrying into effect a scheme under this part of this Act by a vestry or district board,[¹] and if a vestry or district board [¹] consider that the expenses of carrying into effect any scheme under this part of this Act, or a contribution in respect of those expenses, ought to be paid or made by the county council, and the county council decline or fail to agree to pay or make the same, the vestry or district board [¹] may apply to a Secretary of State, [²] and if the Secretary of State [²] is satisfied that, having regard to the size of the area, to the number, position, structure, sanitary condition, and neighbourhood of the buildings to be dealt with, the council ought to pay or make a contribution in respect of the said expenses, he may order such payment or contribution to be made, and the amount thereof shall be a simple contract debt from the council to the vestry or district board.[¹]

(8) In the application of this section to Woolwich, the local board of health shall be deemed to be a district board,[¹] but the raising of any sums required for purchase money or compensation payable under this part of this Act shall be a purpose for which they may borrow under the Public Health Acts, and the Public Health Acts shall apply accordingly.

Supplemental.

[¹ Now the common council; see 60 &61 Vict. c. cxxxiii.]

[¹ Now the common council; see 60 &61 Vict. c. cxxxiii.]

[² Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[² Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[² Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[² Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[² Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[³ Now the Local Government Board; see 3 Edw. 7. c. 39, s. 2, and Stat. Rules and Orders, 1905, No. 136, p. 142.]

[³ Now the Local Government Board; see 3 Edw. 7. c. 39, s. 2, and Stat. Rules and Orders, 1905, No. 136, p. 142.]

[² Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[³ Now the Local Government Board; see 3 Edw. 7. c. 39, s. 2, and Stat. Rules and Orders, 1905, No. 136, p. 142.]

[² Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[⁴ Or the county council and the metropolitan borough councils may agree; 3 Edw. 7. c. 39, s. 14.]

[¹ Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[¹ Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[¹ Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[² Now the Local Government Board; see 3 Edw. 7. c. 39, s. 2, and Stat. Rules and Orders, 1905, No. 136, p. 142.]

[² Now the Local Government Board; see 3 Edw. 7. c. 39, s. 2, and Stat. Rules and Orders, 1905, No. 136, p. 142.]

[¹ Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]

[¹ Now metropolitan borough council; see 62 &63 Vict. c. 14, s. 4.]