# Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, Section 116: For the regulation and inspection of lodging houses.


It shall not be lawful to keep or use as a public lodging house within the limits of the special Act any house, not being a licensed victualling house, which shall be related to the relief of the poor on a less sum than ten pounds, nor in any case unless such house shall have been registered as a lodging house in a book to be kept by the commissioners for that purpose; and every house shall be deemed a public lodging house within the meaning of this Act in which persons are harboured or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at one time, or any part of which is let for any term less than a week.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/116 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-116
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