Housing Act 1957

Sections 77, 79.

SIXTH SCHEDULE Number of Persons permitted to use a House for Sleeping

For the purposes of Part IV of this Act, the expression "the permitted number of persons" means, in relation to any dwellinghouse, either—

(a) the number specified in the second column of Table I in the annex hereto in relation to a house consisting of the number of rooms of which that house consists, or

(b) the aggregate for all the rooms in the house obtained by reckoning, for each room therein of the floor area specified in the first column of Table II in the annex hereto, the number specified in the second column of that Table in relation to that area, whichever is the less :

Provided that in computing for the purposes of the said Table I the number of rooms in a house, no regard shall be had to any room having a floor area of less than 50 square feet.

ANNEX

Table I

Where a house consists of—
(a) One room	2.
(b) Two rooms	3.
(c) Three rooms	5.
(d) Four rooms	7 ½.
(e) Five rooms or more	10, with an additional 2 in respect of each room in excess of five.

Table II

Where the floor area of a room is—
(a) 110 sq. ft. or more	2.
(b) 90 sq. ft. or more, but less than 110 sq. ft.	14.
(c) 70 sq. ft. or more, but less than 90 sq. ft.	1.
(d) 50 sq. ft. or more, but less than 70 sq. ft.	½.
(e) Under 50 sq. ft.	Nil.