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N.B. Daily readings are taken at noon: figures above therefore relate to the 24 hour periods
ending at noon on the dates given.
Dark Smoke from Industrial Premises
The adoptive Section 47 of the Middlesex County Council Act, 1961, was brought
into force in the Borough, by special resolution of the Council, and took effect as
from 1st September, 1962. This Section prohibits the emission of dark smoke from any
industrial premises in the district and provides penalties for contraventions. The
Section does not apply to smoke emitted from any chimney of a building or from a
chimney to which Section 1 of the Clean Air Act, 1956, applies, nor to dark smoke
accidentally or inadvertently emitted if all practicable steps have been taken to prevent
or minimise the emission of such smoke, nor to premises controlled under the Alkali,
etc., Works Regulations Act, 1906. With these exceptions, the Section will prove most
useful in dealing with conditions which might arise, especially in Smoke Control
Areas, from the burning of large quantities of waste material in the open, and closes
a serious loophole in the provisions of the Clean Air Act. Several occasions have arisen
where the attention of possible offenders has been drawn to the Section, but no
formal action has so far been necessary.
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