Common Lodging Houses Act 1851 Explained

Short Title:Common Lodging Houses Act 1851
Type:Act
Parliament:Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:An Act for the well-ordering of Common Lodging Houses.
Year:1851
Citation:14 & 15 Vict. c. 28
Royal Assent:24 July 1851
Original Text:https://books.google.com/books?id=Wlg0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA92

The Common Lodging Houses Act 1851[1] (14 & 15 Vict. c. 28), sometimes (like the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851) known as the Shaftesbury Act, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is one of the principal British Housing Acts. It gave boroughs and vestries the power to supervise public health regarding 'common lodging houses' for the poor and migratory people.[2] The Act takes its name from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

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Notes and References

  1. This short title was conferred on this Act by section 1 of this Act.
  2. A. J. Scott, The Urban Land Nexus and the State (London: Pion, 1980), table 10.1.