Common Lodging Houses Act 1851

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Common Lodging Houses Act 1851
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act for the well-ordering of Common Lodging Houses.
Citation 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28
Dates
Royal assent 24 July 1851
Other legislation
Amended by Statute Law Revision Act 1875
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Common Lodging Houses Act 1851 [1] (14 & 15 Vict. c. 28), sometimes (like the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851) known as the Shaftesbury Act, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is one of the principal British Housing Acts. It gave boroughs and vestries the power to supervise public health regarding 'common lodging houses' for the poor and migratory people. [2] The Act takes its name from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

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References

  1. This short title was conferred on this Act by section 1 of this Act.
  2. A. J. Scott, The Urban Land Nexus and the State (London: Pion, 1980), table 10.1.