Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851

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Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act to encourage the Establishment of Lodging Houses for the Labouring Classes.
Citation 14 & 15 Vict. c. 34
Dates
Royal assent 24 July 1851
Other legislation
Amended by Statute Law Revision Act 1875
Repealed by Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851 [1] (14 & 15 Vict. c. 34), sometimes (like the Common 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 raise funds via local rates or Public Works Loan Commissioners to build lodging houses for unmarried working (as opposed to unemployed) people. [2] The Act takes its name from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

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.