If, on the application of a local authority, a court of summary jurisdiction is satisfied that it is necessary in the interests of the public health that a common lodging-house should be closed on account of the existence, or recent occurrence, therein of a case of notifiable disease, the court may make an order directing the lodging-house to be closed until it is certified by the medical officer of health of the district to be free from infection.
Section 245: Power of court to order closing of common lodginghouse on account of notifiable disease.
Public Health Act 1936 · 1936 c. 49View on legislation.gov.uk
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Part IX: Common Lodging-houses.
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