Housing of The Working Classes Act, 1903

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Amendment of procedure for closing orders.

8.—(1) If in the opinion of the local authority any dwelling-house is not reasonably capable of being made fit for human habitation, or is in such a state that the occupation thereof should be immediately discontinued, it shall not be necessary for them, before obtaining a closing order, to serve a notice on the owner or occupier of the premises to abate the nuisance, and a justice may issue a summons for a closing order and a closing order may be granted, although such a notice has not been served.

(2) The Local Government Board may by order prescribe forms in substitution for those in the Fourth Schedule to the principal Act, and section thirty-two of the principal Act shall have effect as if the forms so prescribed were referred to therein in lieu of the forms in that Schedule.