CHAPTER 59.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the provisions of the Baths and Washhouses Act, 1878, with respect to the use which may be made of baths provided under the Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846 to 1882:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Short title 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Baths and Washhouses Act, 1896, and this Act and the Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846 to 1882, may be cited together for all purposes as the Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846 to 1896.
Amendment of 41 & 42 Vict. c.14. s.5 2. From and after the passing of this Act the following proviso Amendment of to section five of the Baths and Washhouses Act, 1878, viz.:
"Provided always that no covered or open swimming bath when closed may be used for music or dancing," shall be repealed, so far as the administrative county of London is concerned.
- Provided always—
- (a.) That the Commissioners appointed under the Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846 to 1896 {{Outside 56 & 57 Vict. c.77 ss. 7 and 33(1) (5), or any sanitary authority or other representative body to whom the powers of the said Commissioners shall have been transferred by any order of the Local Government Board made under the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1894, which Commissioners, sanitary authority, or representative body, are herein-after referred to as " such Commissioners," shall before any such bath is used for music or dancing obtain a licence from the London County Council in the manner herein-after prescribed;
- (b.) That no portion of the premises in respect of which the licence is granted be let otherwise than occasionally to any person or persons corporate or otherwise, and that no money for admission be taken at the doors;
- (c.) That such Commissioners be responsible for any breach of the conditions on which the licence is granted which may occur during any entertainment given on such premises by their permission.
Licence by London County Council 3. At any annual licensing meeting, or at any other meeting Licence by duly convened with fourteen days previous notice, the London County Council may grant a licence for music or dancing, or for both purposes, to such Commissioners, subject to the provisions of the Disorderly Houses Act, 175125 Geo. 2,c. 36. as amended by the Local Government Act, 1888.51 & 52 Vict. c. 41.
