# Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, Section 42: Commissioners may require owners of houses to provide privies and ashpits for the same.


The commissioners shall require the owner of every house within the said limits, to which no sufficient privy and ashpit, with proper doors and coverings, is attached, to provide, where it appears to them that there is room enough for the purpose, such privy and ashpit in such situation, not disturbing any building then already erected, as the commissioners deem necessary for the use of the inmates and occupiers thereof; and every such privy and ashpit shall be constructed to the satisfaction of the commissioners, so as effectually to prevent the escape of the contents thereof: Provided always that where a privy and ashpit is used in common by the inmates and occupiers of two or more of such houses, the commissioners may, if they think fit, dispense with the provision of a privy and ashpit for each such house.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/42 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-42
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