Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 (1885 c. 72)

1—2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1] Ss. 1, 2 repealed by Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (c. 70), Sch. 7

3 Provision respecting sites of certain metropolitan prisons.

In the event of the removal from their present sites of Millbank Penitentiary or Pentonville Penitentiary, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, on the recommendation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and subject to such conditions as they may think reasonable, and in the event of the removal from its present site of Coldbath Fields Prison, or House of Detention, Clerkenwell, it shall be lawful for the justices of the peace for the county of Middlesex if the justices think fit so to do, to sell and convey those protective sites or any part or parts thereof to the Metropolitan Board of Works, at a fair market price.

4—6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F2] Ss. 4–6 repealed by Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (c. 70), Sch. 7

Amendment of General Sanitary Law, &c.

7 General duty of local authority to enforce the law.

It shall be the duty of every local authority entrusted with the execution of laws relating to public health and local government to put in force from time to time as occasion may arise, the powers with which they are invested, so as to secure the proper sanitary condition of all premises within the area under the control of such authority.

8—10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F3] Ss. 8–10 repealed by Public Health Act 1936 (c. 49), s. 346, Sch. 3 Pt. V and London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), Sch. 18 Pt. II and words in s. 9(1) expressed to be substituted (1.4.2012) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (N.I.) 2011 (c. 23), Sch. 3 Pt. 3 para. 4

11—16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F4] Ss. 11–16, 18, Sch. repealed by Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (c. 70), Sch. 7

17 Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885.

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[F5] Ss. 11–16, 18, Sch. repealed by Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (c. 70), Sch. 7

SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F6] Ss. 11–16, 18, Sch. repealed by Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (c. 70), Sch. 7