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the certificates shall continue to operate. In the remaining
fourteen cases, some of which were no longer used as bakehouses,
the occupiers were notified that their certificates of
suitability could not be renewed.
In two cases, the occupiers appealed to a Court of Summary
Jurisdiction against the Council's decision. In one case the
magistrate decided that the bakehouse was suitable within the
terms of Section 54 of the Factories Act, 1937. He allowed
the appeal and awarded the appellant ten guineas costs against
the Council. In the second case, the magistrate dismissed the
appeal arid awarded the Council ten guineas costs.
As a result of the quinquennial inspection and the
successful appeal mentioned above, the occupiers of the following
basement bakehouses may continue to carry on their businesses
for the next five years:-
93—95, Old Brompton Road
259, " " "
139, Portland Road
46, Walton Street
151, Earls Court Road
310, " " "
62, Fulham Road
178, " "
290, " "
51, Golborne Road
65, " "
79, " "
196, Lancaster Road
216, Portobello Road
Rag Flock and other Filling Materials Act, 1951
This Act regulates the use of clean filling materials in
upholstered articles and other articles which are stuffed
or lined.
Subject to certain exceptions, the Act makes it unlawful
to use prescribed filling materials except on premises
registered by a local authority. The exceptions are in the
remaking and reconditioning of any article or upholstering
in connection with the making of railway carriages, road vehicles
ships or aircraft. The local authority are required, on the
application of the occupier of premises, to register the
premises on payment of a registration fee of one pound. At
the end of the year, there were twenty registered premises
in the borough.
Forty-eight inspections of these premises were made
during the year.
The Act further provides that no rag flock shall be
delivered to registered premises except from premises licensed
for manufacturing rag flock or used as a store for rag flock.
A local authority on receiving from the occupier of premises
an application for the grant or renewal of an annual licence
authorising him to manufacture rag flock or to use his premises
as a rag flock store, may grant or renew the licence on payment
of a fee on one pound. No licenses have been issued in
Kensington.
If on registered premises there are unclean filling
materials, the occupier shall be guilty of an offence; and
it is also an offence to sell or offer for sale any article
which is upholstered with unclean filling materials (secondhand
articles are excepted.)