Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890

Rooms over privies, &c. not to be used as dwelling or sleeping rooms.

24.(1) Where any portion of a room extends immediately over any privy (not being a watercloset or earth-closet), or immediately over any cesspool, midden, or ashpit, that room, whether built before or after the adoption of this part of this Act, shall not be occupied as a dwelling place, sleeping place, or workroom or place of habitual employment of any person in any manufacture, trade, or business during any portion of the day or night.

(2) Any person who after the expiration of one month after the adoption of this part of this Act, and after notice from the local authority of not less than seven days, so occupies, and any person who suffers to be so occupied, any such room, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and to a daily penalty not exceeding ten shillings.