The registration of a person as a keeper of a common lodging-house shall remain in force for such period, not exceeding thirteen months, as may be fixed by the authority, but may from time to time be renewed by them for a period not exceeding thirteen months at any one time.
If a local authority refuse to grant or to renew registration under this section, they shall, if required by the applicant, deliver to him a statement in writing of the grounds on which his application is refused.
A local authority shall at any time, on the application of a person registered as the keeper of a common lodging-house, remove from the register the name of any person entered therein as a deputy of the keeper, or insert therein the name of any other person being a person approved by the authority, whom the keeper proposes to employ as a deputy, and shall make any consequential alterations in the certificate of registration.