Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Sanitary authority may refuse to register houses.

89. A house shall not be registered as a common lodging-house until it has been inspected and approved for the purpose by some officer of the sanitary authority; and the sanitary authority may refuse to register as the keeper of a common lodging-house a person who does not produce to the sanitary authority a certificate of character, in such form as the sanitary authority direct, signed by three inhabitant householders of the union respectively rated to the relief of the poor of the union within which the lodging-house is situate for property of the yearly rateable value of six pounds or upwards.