Section 22: Inspection of common lodging house

22. Inspection of common lodging house (1) The Sanitary Authority may inspect a common lodging house by day or by night. (2) Where the condition of the common lodging house is, in the opinion of the Sanitary Authority, unsatisfactory, it may make an order to— (a) close the common lodging house; P49 – 11 [Issue 1] Public Health Act (b) reduce the number of inmates allowed to live in it; (c) restrict the number of rooms which may be used for habitation; or (d) specify such measures to be taken as the sanitary circumstances of the case require. (3) Where an order to close the common lodging house, building or room is made, the common lodging house, building or room shall remain closed until the Sanitary Authority sanctions its reopening under such conditions as it thinks fit to impose.