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Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897
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72Power of local authority to make byelaws as to lodging-houses.
(1)Every local authority may, and if required by the Board shall, make and enforce for the whole or any part of their district such byelaws as are requisite for the following matters; (that is to say,)
(a)for fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members, of more than one family :
(b)for the registration of houses so let or occupied :
(c)for the inspection of such houses :
(d)for enforcing sufficient privy or watercloset accommodation and other appliances and means of cleanliness in proportion, to the number of lodgers or occupiers, drainage for such' houses, and for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in such houses, and for the cleansing and ventilation of the common passages and staircases :
(e)for the cleansing and limewashing at stated times of the premises:
(f)for the giving of notices and the taking of precautions in case of any infectious disease.
(2)This section shall not apply to common lodging-houses within the provisions of this Act relating to common lodging-houses, but shall apply to farmed-out houses, that is to say, to houses of one or two apartments taken on lease by any person, and let or rented to several occupiers for limited periods as furnished apartments, as also to all boarding-houses for seamen and emigrants, irrespective of the charge made for the board and lodging therein.
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