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TENTS, VANS, SHEDS, ETC. USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1936 - SECTION 135.
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT, 1947.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1959
SECTION 22 AND 23
Prom time to time temporary dwellings are brought on to sites
within the borough. It is the practice to investigate the conditions
for nuisances in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936 ; the owners of the sites are contacted and the
London County Council is informed having regard to the powers in the
Town and County Planning Act, 1947.
For the purpose of regulating the use of movable dwellings
within the borough, the Council, from October 1st 1960, had powers
to grant for such periods as they think fit (not exceeding three
years in respect of any one licence), licences authorising persons
to use, or allow to be used, as sites for movable dwellings, land
occupied by those persons within the borough. These powers have been
delegated to the Housing and Town Planning Committee.
OFFICE ACT, 1960
The Office Act, 1960, which makes provision for health, welfare
and safety in offices, received the Royal Assent on 29th July, 1960,
and will come into force on 1st January, 1962.
The Act enables the Secretary of State to make regulations
specifying the standards as to the structure, arrangement and operation
to be applied in offices for the protection of the health,
safety and welfare of persons employed therein. The Secretary of State
may also provide by regulation for restricting the employment of women
in offices after childbirth. Before making any regulations the Secretary
of State is required to consult such organisations as appear to
him to represent the interests concerned and the draft regulations
will be laid before Parliament for approval by resolution of each
House.
The occupier of any office is required to keep fixed in a permanent
place any prescribed abstracts of the Act or regulations made
thereunder. Occupiers are required to notify the local authority
(Metropolitan Borough Councils) in the prescribed form, of any accident
which causes loss of life to anyone employed in the premises
or disables any such person for more than three days from earning the
full wages at the work at which he was employed. These reports need
not be sent in respect of accidents of which notice is required to