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Housing Act 1957

Housing Act 1957 s 86

s 86 Duty of medical officers to furnish particulars of overcrowding

Regulations prescribing the duties to be performed by medical officers of health of boroughs and urban and rural districts, and by medical officers of health in London, made by the Minister under section one hundred and eight of the Local Government Act, 1933, and section seventy-nine of the London Government Act, 1939, respectively, shall include provisions for imposing on those officers a duty to furnish annually to the Minister particulars with respect to conditions in relation to overcrowding, and in particular to furnish to him particulars of any cases in which dwelling-houses in respect of which the local authority have taken steps for the abatement of overcrowding have again become overcrowded.

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