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Provision of proper sanitary conveniences in a common lodging-house.
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74.—(1) Every common lodging-house, whether registered before or after the commencement of this section, shall be provided—
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(a) With sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences, having regard to the number of persons who may be received in that house, and also, where persons of both sexes are received in the common lodging-house, with proper separate accommodation for persons of each sex; and
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(b) With a water supply laid on sufficient for flushing any water-closets or urinals which are used in the house.
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(2) If it appears to the local authority that, in the case of any common lodging-house, default is made in any respect in complying with the provisions of this section, the local authority, may, by notice in writing specifying the default, require the keeper of the common lodging-house to remedy the default.
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(3) If within twenty-eight days of the notice being served the default is not remedied to the satisfaction of the local authority, they may themselves do the work required to be done, and may recover in a summary manner from the keeper of the common lodging-house the expenses incurred by them in so doing, or may by order declare these expenses to be private improvement expenses.
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