Hotels Trourist accomodation and lodging houses to be registered and subject to regulation and inspection

(1) Every hotel, tourist accommodation and lodging house shall be subject to registration and to such regulations as may from time to time be made by the Minister for the proper government and regulation thereof and with regard to the number of inmates to be permitted to lodge therein, the measures to be taken for securing cleanliness and ventilation therein, and with respect to the inspection thereof, and the conditions and restrictions under which such inspection may be made, and the keeping any tourist accommodation or lodging house shall give access to it when required by any person who produces the written authority of a medical officer of health in this behalf for the purpose of inspecting it, or for introducing or using therein any disinfecting process, and the expenses incurred by a medical officer of health in introducing or using any disinfecting process shall be recoverable by him from the person keeping the hotel, tourist accommodation or lodging house in which it has been used or introduced, and whoever refuses to admit therein at any time any person authorised as described in this section shall for every such offence be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars. (2) In this section, “lodging house” means any house, not being a hotel or tavern, wherein persons are nightly received to sleep upon payment of hire, whether such persons reside in the same during the day or otherwise. (3) Where regulations providing for the matters referred to in subsection (1) are made under any law for the time being regulating the registration of hotels, such regulations shall apply in the place of subsection (1) of this section in respect of the matters specified therein.