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HEATING APPLIANCES AND FIREGUARDS
The Heating Appliances & Fire Guards Act, 1952 which came
into operation in March, with the Regulations of 1953, prohibit
the sale or letting of unguarded gas and electric fires or oil
heaters, and lays down standards for construction, fitting and
testing of guards. Officers of the local authority are empowered
to enter premises for the purpose of inspecting and testing
such appliances, offered for sale or letting, as are required
to be fitted with guards.
CONTROL OF PLEASURE FAIRS
The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee
considered a letter dated 18th November in which the London
County Council referred to the power given in Section 68 of the
London County Council (General Powers) Act 1939 for sanitary
authorities to make by-laws for regulating pleasure fairs and
drawing attention to the fact that licensable entertainment,
e.g. boxing, does, however, sometimes take place at a pleasure
fair and the manager of the fair and the promoter of the entertainment
may think that having complied with the by-laws
they have taken all necessary action. The County Council
thought it desirable that some step should be taken to bring to
the notice of managers and other persons concerned the fact
that compliance with the by-laws does not obviate the necessity
for obtaining an entertainments licence, and that a note to that
effect, preferably immediately after the by-laws relating to
safety, or alternatively, added to the end of the byelaws
would meet the point. The Council agreed to act in accordance
with this request.
EMERGENCY WATER TANKS CLEANSING
After discussion between the officers of the Metropolitan
Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee and the London County
Council arrangements have been agreed with regard to the
cleansing of emergency water taks.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS)
ACT, 1952—SECTION 26.
In July legal proceedings were taken against a person who
gave a boy a toy in exchange for a bundle of rags. Defendant
pleaded guilty and was fined £1.