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BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - LONG TITLE

An Act for promoting the voluntary Establishment in Boroughs and
certain Cities and Towns in Ireland of public Baths and
Washhouses.{1}
[26th August 1846]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1891

S.1 rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 2
Interpretation of Act.

2. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have the
several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there by something
in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is
to say,)

Definitions rep. by 1972 NI 16 art.63(3) sch.19; SRO (NI)
1973/285["district council" means a council established under the
Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972;]

Definition spent"Lands" shall mean lands, tenements, and hereditaments,
of whatsoever nature or tenure:Words importing the masculine gender
shall include the feminine:Words of the plural number shall include
the singular, and words of the singular number shall include the
plural.

S.3 rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9. S.4 rep. in pt. by 1972
c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9; 1972 NI 16 art.63(3) sch.19; residue spent.
Ss.510 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954; 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 11
Councils may erect, &c. buildings for public baths and washhouses,
and open bathing places.

11. [A district council] may from time to time, on any lands so
appropriated, purchased, or rented, or contracted so to be
respectively, erect any buildings suitable for public baths and
washhouses, and as to such washhouses either with or without open
drying grounds, and make any open bathing places, and convert any
buildings into public baths and washhouses, and may from time to
time alter, enlarge, repair, and improve the same respectively, and
fit up, furnish, and supply the same respectively with all requisite
furniture, fittings, and conveniences.

S.12 rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 13
Council may purchase existing baths, &c. if they think fit.

13. [A district council] may, if they shall think fit, contract for
the purchase or lease of any baths and washhouses already or
hereafter to be built and provided ..., and appropriate the same to
the purposes of this Act, with such additions or alterations as
they shall ... deem necessary; and the trustees of any public baths
and washhouses which have been already or may hereafter be built or
provided ..., by private subscriptions or otherwise, may ... with
the consent of a majority of the committee or other persons by
whom they were appointed trustees, sell or lease the said baths and
washhouses to [such a council], or make over to them the management
of such baths and washhouses; and in all such cases the baths and
washhouses so purchased or leased, or of which the management has
been so made over, shall be deemed to be within the provisions of
this Act, as fully as if they had been built or provided by the
said council ...; and the property therein shall be vested in the
[council].

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 14
Power to supply water without charge or on reduced terms.

14. Any commissioners of waterworks, trustees of waterworks, water
companies, canal companies, gas companies, and other corporations,
bodies, and persons having the management of any waterworks, canals,
reservoirs, wells, springs, and streams of water, and gas works
respectively, may, in their discretion, grant and furnish supplies of
water for such public baths and washhouses and open bathing places,
either without charge or on such other favourable terms as they
shall think fit.

Ss.1518 rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 19
Management to be vested in councils.

19. The general management, regulation, and control of the public
baths and washhouses and open bathing places established under this
Act shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be, ..., vested
in and exercised by the [district] council ....

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 20
Bye laws for regulating baths and washhouses.

20. The bye laws which the council ... may from time to time
make, alter, repeal, and enforce shall include such bye laws for
the management, use, and regulation of the public baths and
washhouses and open bathing places, and of the persons resorting
thereto respectively and for determining from time to time the
charges for the use of such baths and washhouses and open bathing
places respectively, as the council ... shall think fit; and they
... may appoint any penalty not exceeding [#20] for any and every
breach, whether by their officers or servants or by other persons,
of any bye law made by them ...; and such bye laws shall make
sufficient provision for the several purposes respectively expressed
in the schedule (A) to this Act:

Copies or abstracts of bye laws to be hung up in every bath room
and open bathing place, &c.

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 21

21. A printed copy or sufficient abstract of the bye laws relating
to the use of the baths and open bathing places respectively shall
be put up in every bath room and open bathing place respectively;
and a printed copy or sufficient abstract of the bye laws relating
to the use of the washhouses shall be put up in some convenient
place near every washing tub or trough, or every pair of washing
tubs or troughs, in every washhouse.

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 22
Proportion of baths for the labouring classes.

22. The number of baths for the labouring classes in any building
or buildings under the management of the same council ... shall not
be less than twice the number of the baths of any higher class,
if but one, or of all the baths of any higher classes, if more
than one, in the same building or buildings.

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 23
Charges to be fixed by councils not exceeding those in schedule
(B).

23. The council ... may from time to time make such reasonable
charges for the use of the baths and washhouses and open bathing
places respectively provided under this Act as they shall think fit,
but not exceeding such charges as are mentioned in the schedule (B)
annexed to this Act, unless for the use of any washing tub or
trough for more than two hours in any one day, for which any
charges may be made which the council ... shall deem reasonable.

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 24
As to the recovery of charges at wash-houses.

24. For the recovery of the charges at such washhouses the
[district council] may detain the clothes brought to be washed, or
other goods and chattels, of any person refusing to pay the charge
to which such person may be liable, or any part thereof, till full
payment thereof be made, and in case such payment be not made
within seven days may sell such clothes, goods, and chattels, or
any of them, returning the surplus proceeds of such sale, after
deducting the unpaid charge, and the expenses of such detention and
sale, and the unsold articles, if any, on demand, to such person.

S.25 rep. by 1964 c.14 (NI) s.18 sch. S.26 rep. by 1954 c.9 (NI)
s.29 sch.7. S.27 rep. by SLR 1875

For securing that the baths and washhouses and open bathing places
shall be under the due management and control of the officers,
servants, or others appointed or employed in that behalf by the
council ....

For securing adequate privacy to persons using the baths and
washhouses and open bathing places, and security against accidents to
persons using the open bathing places.

For securing that men, and boys above eight years old, shall bathe
separately from women and girls, and children under eight years old.

For preventing damage, disturbance, interruption, and indecent and
offensive language and behaviour, and nuisances.

For determining the duties of the officers, servants, and others
appointed by the council ....

Maximum charges during the first seven years after the establishments
are opened for public use; and after such seven years, except only
so long after such seven years as higher charges may be necessary
for defraying the current expenses of the establishments.

Baths for the labouring classes, supplied with clean water for every
bather, or for several children bathing together:

For one person above eight years old, including

the use of one clean towel:

For several children, not exceeding four, including

the use of one clean towel for every child:

Washhouses for the labouring classes, supplied with conveniences for
washing and drying clothes and other articles:

Open bathing places, where several persons bathe in the same water.