(S. 86.) Any keeper of a common lodging-house, or other person having or acting in the care or management thereof, who—
1. Receives any lodger in such house without the same being registered under this Act; or—
2. Fails to make a report after he has been furnished by the local authority with schedules for the purpose, in pursuance of this Act, of the persons resorting to such house; or—
3. Fails to give the notices required by this Act, where any person has been confined to his bed in such house by fever or other infectious disease,—
Shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty not exceeding £2 for every day during which the offence continues.
(S. 87.) In any proceedings under the provisions of this Act relating to common lodging-houses, if the inmates of any house or part of a house allege that they are members of the same family, the burden of proving such allegation shall lie on the persons making it.
(S. 88.) Where the keeper of a common lodging-house is convicted of a third offence against the provisions of this Act relating to common lodging-houses, the Court before whom the conviction for such third offence takes place may, if it thinks fit, adjudge that he shall not at any time within five years after the conviction, or within such shorter period after the conviction as the court thinks fit, keep, or have, or act in the care or management
of a common lodging-house without the previous licence in writing of the local authority, may withhold or grant on such terms or conditions as they think fit.
(S. 89.) For the purposes of this Act the expression ‘common lodging-house’ includes, in any case in which only part of a house is used as a common lodging-house, the part so used of such house.
Bye-laws as to Houses let as Lodgings.