The act is made up of four parts and seven schedules:
Part 1: Unhealthy Areas
Part 2: Unhealthy Dwellings
Part 3: Working Class Lodging Houses
Part 4: Supplemental
First Schedule: A list of the names of relevant authorities
Second Schedule: Provisions for compulsory purchase
Third Schedule: Provisions for closing premises
Fourth and Fifth Schedule: A collection of forms to be used in applying the act
Sixth Schedule: Lists required byelaws that authorities need to enact.[1]
Implications
This gave London County Council the legal power to compulsory buy land out of area and to construct tenements and housing estates.
The powers under part 3 were extensive:
allowing the Council to:
lease land for the erection thereon of workmen's dwellings
itself undertake the erection of dwellings or the improvement or reconstruction of existing dwellings
fit up, furnish and maintain lodging working classes
make any necessary by-laws and regulations for the management and use of the lodging houses
sell dwellings or lodging houses established for seven years or upwards under Part III. of the Act whenever such dwellings or lodging houses are deemed by the Council and the Local Government Board to be unnecessary or too expensive to keep up.[2]
The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1894 amended the financial provisions of part 2 of the principal act.[2]
