Common Lodging Houses Act 1851
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for the well-ordering of Common Lodging Houses. |
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| Citation | 14 & 15 Vict. c. 28 |
| Territorial extent | [b] |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 24 July 1851 |
| Commencement | 24 July 1851[c] |
| Repealed | 1 October 1936 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amended by | |
| Repealed by | Public Health (London) Act 1936 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Common Lodging Houses Act 1851[a] (14 & 15 Vict. c. 28), sometimes (like the Labouring Classes 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 supervise public health regarding 'common lodging houses' for the poor and migratory people.[1] The act takes its name from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.
The whole act, except as related to the Metropolitan Police District, was repealed by section 343 of, and part I of schedule V to, the Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55).
The whole act was repealed for Ireland by section 394 of, and schedule A to, the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 52).
The whole act was repealed by section 308 of, and the seventh schedule to, the Public Health (London) Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 50).
