Jersey R & O 4387

 

Lodging Houses (Registration) (Jersey) Law, 1962.

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LODGING HOUSES (GENERAL PROVISIONS) (JERSEY) ORDER, 1962.

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THE TOURISM COMMITTEE, in pursuance of Articles 2, 6 and 19 of the Lodging Houses (Registration) (Jersey) Law, 1962,1 (hereinafter referred to as “the Law”) hereby orders as follows :  -

 

REQUIREMENTS AS TO REGISTRATION

1.             No lodging house shall be registered unless the Committee is satisfied that –

(a)     the lodging house is of solid and substantial construction and in good repair ;

(b)     the rooms in the lodging house are adequately ventilated, of reasonable size, have sufficient external window lighting and are so numbered as to make them readily identifiable ;

(c)     the lodging house contains facilities for ablutions and water closets, reasonably adequate to the number of persons that can be lodged thereon ;

(d)     the lodging house is adequately furnished and equipped ;

(e)     the lodging house generally conforms to reasonable standards of cleanliness, orderliness, water supply, sewage disposal, ventilation, safety and general condition ;

(f)      reasonable precautions are taken against fire and for the safety of persons in the case of fire ;

[(fa)  the keeper of the lodging house is ordinarily resident in the Island or, where the keeper is a limited liability company, the company is incorporated in the Island ;]2

(g)     the lodging house is under the management of a reasonably competent person or persons.

 

EXEMPTIONS FROM REGISTRATION PROVISIONS

2.             Nothing in Article 2 of the Law shall require the registration of –

(a)     any educational establishment ;

(b)     any premises in which lodging for reward at any one time is provided for five persons or less ;

(c)     any establishment carried on by an organization not conducted for profit ;

(d)     any establishment the sole or main object of which is the provision of accommodation for reward for aged persons ;

(e)     any nursing home within the meaning of the Nursing Homes (Registration) (Jersey) Law, 1950,3 as amended ;4

(f)      any institution, house or home licensed under the “Règlement pour la régie et la surveillance des Maisons d’Aliénés Licenciées et pour la protection des Aliénés”, confirmed by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 3rd day of March, 1883, as amended.5

 

APPLICATIONS

3.-(1)  Every application for the registration or the renewal of the registration of a lodging house under Article 5 of the Law –

[(a)   shall be made in such form and manner and be accompanied by such documents as the Committee may from time to time determine ;

(b)     shall, for the period of time to which the application relates, contain full details of the charges which the applicant proposes to make for each room and, in the case of a room to be occupied by more than one person, for each such person ;]6

(c)     shall be accompanied by a fee of one pound.

(2)     Every such application shall be signed by the keeper of the lodging house, or, if made on behalf of a limited liability company or partnership, by the secretary, manager or other duly authorized officer of the company or a partner of the partnership, as the case may be.

[(3)    Any keeper of a lodging house who, without the consent of the Committee, makes any charge in excess of the charges specified as provided in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) of this Article shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.]7

 

REGISTRATION FEE

4.             The fee payable on the registration or the renewal of the registration of any lodging house shall be three shillings multiplied by the number of persons that can be lodged on the premises.

 

FEE FOR REPLACEMENT OF REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE

5.             The fee payable on the issue of a registration certificate in place of a certificate which has been accidentally lost, destroyed or defaced, is ten shillings.

 

[DISPLAY OF NOTICES

5A.-(1)  It shall be the duty of the keeper of a registered lodging house to keep conspicuously displayed in every registered bedroom a notice –

(a)     giving full details of the charges to be made for the room and, in the case of a room to be occupied by more than one person, for each such person ;

(b)     informing the occupant, or occupants as the case may be, of the room, that he or they may be evicted without an order of Court ; and

(c)     specifying the maximum number of persons that may be accommodated in the room.

(2)     Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and to a further fine not exceeding twenty pounds for each day during which the offence continues.]8

 

PROHIBITION ON DOUBLE LETTINGS

6.             Accommodation in a lodging house shall not be so let that any bed is used alternately by different persons, and the keeper of a lodging house who contravenes the provisions of this Article shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or where the offence consists of continuing any such contravention after conviction thereof, twenty pounds together with a further twenty pounds for each day on which it is so continued.

 

CITATION AND COMMENCEMENT

7.             This Order may be cited as the Lodging Houses (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order, 1962, and shall come into force on the first day of December, 1962.

By Order of the Tourism Committee,

 

F. DE L. BOIS,

 

Greffier of the States.

17th October, 1962.

SCHEDULE

(Article 3)

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