Section 406 — Housing Act 1985: Byelaws as to common lodging houses.

Byelaws as to common lodging houses. 406 A local housing authority may, and if so required by the Secretary of State shall, make byelaws—

a for fixing the number of persons who may be received into a common lodging house, and for the separation of the sexes in it;

b for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in common lodging houses, and requiring the walls and ceilings of such lodging houses to be limewashed, or treated with some other suitable preparation, at specified intervals;

c with respect to the taking of precautions when any case of infectious disease occurs in such a lodging house and d generally for the well-ordering of such lodging houses.