Title and introductory text
Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 1885 c.72 An Act to amend the Law relating to Dwellings of the Working Classes. [14th August 1885]
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Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885
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Contents: 10 provisions
- Title and introductory text
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- 3 Provision respecting sites of certain metropolitan prisons.
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- 7 General duty of local authority to enforce the law.
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- 17 Short title.
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Propose a change3 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.
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Propose a change7 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.
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This Act may be cited as the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885.
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