The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply in relation to any court, yard or passage which is used in common by the occupiers of two or more houses, but is not a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large.
Any byelaws made by a local authority, whether under section twenty-three of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, or under a local Act, with respect to the paving of yards and open spaces in connection with houses shall cease to have effect, and so much of any local Act as authorises the making of such byelaws is hereby repealed.