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At the end of the year 12 such exemption certificates were in
operation.
Routine inspections were carried out under the abovementioned
Act on 404 occasions.
Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951.—The
introduction of this Act, which became operative on the 1st November,
1951, brought about the repeal of the previous Rag and Flock
Acts of 1911 and 1928 as well as Section 136 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936.
This new Act seeks to secure the use of clean filling materials in
upholstered or other articles which are stuffed or lined, and it can be
said to be a consolidation of the previous Acts of 1911 and 1928.
It is the duty of the Local Authority to enforce the Act and the
following is a summary of the most important provisions:—
(a) All premises where rag flock is manufactured or stored must
be licensed. Licences (renewed annually) to be issued on
payment of £1.
(b) Filling materials to which the Act applies may not now be
used in the course of any business except on premises
registered by the Local Authority. Registration fee to
be £1—change of occupier must be notified to Local
Authority. (Exemptions: re-making or reconditioning of
any article in connection with railway carriages, road
vehicles, ships or aircraft).
(c) It is now an offence to receive rag flock into registered
premises except from licensed premises. (Exemptions:
second-hand articles delivered for remaking).
(d) With the exception of second-hand goods it is now an
offence to sell or offer for sale any article to which the Act
applies which is upholstered with unclean filling materials.
(e) Occupiers of premises licensed for the manufacture of
filling materials must record all consignments from the
premises.
(f) Occupiers of registered premises must record all
ments of filling materials received on the premises.
The Medical Officer of Health and the Sanitary Inspectors,
being duly authorised officers of the Council, have the right at all
reasonable times and on production of their 'authority' to enter
and inspect premises and take samples for the purposes of the Act.
Regulations have been made under the new Act prescribing
standards of cleanliness for each type of filling material to which