Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851

Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851 ^[a]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to encourage the Establishment of Lodging Houses for the Labouring Classes.
Citation	14 & 15 Vict. c. 34
Territorial extent	England and Wales Ireland [b]
Dates
Royal assent	24 July 1851
Commencement	24 July 1851 [c]
Repealed	18 August 1890
Other legislation Amended by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 Repealed by Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted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 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 34), sometimes (like the Common Lodging Houses Act 1851) known as the Shaftesbury Act, was 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. ^[1] The Act takes its name from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 102 of, and the seventh schedule to, the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 70), which came into force on 18 August 1890. ^[2]

Notes

1. Section 1.
2. Section 53.
3. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

1. A. J. Scott, The Urban Land Nexus and the State (London: Pion, 1980), table 10.1.
2. "Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, Vict/53-54 c. 70

Further reading

• Robert Anstruther Strange. Lodging Houses Acts. The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act, 1851. Shaw and Sons. Fetter Lane, London. 1851. Google Books.

External links

• Text of the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk .