Water closets and other accommodation in buildings newly erected or re-erected.

(1) It shall not be lawful newly to erect or to re-erect any building for or intended for human habitation, or at or in which labourers or workmen are to be employed, without such water-closet or privy accommodation, and such urinal accommodation, and accommodation for bathing or for the washing of clothes and domestic utensils, as the Commissioner may prescribe.

1. (2) In prescribing any such accommodation the Commissioner may determine in each case—
   • (a) whether such building shall be served by the water-closet or by the privy system, or partly by one and partly by the other;
   • (b) what shall be the site or position of each water-closet, privy, urinal or bathing or washing place, and their number.]