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Provisions relating to street trading are included in the Middlesex County
Council Acts and Bye-laws made thereunder. Four prosecutions were taken for
unlicensed trading, resulting in fines of £41 and costs of £8 8s. Od. Two of these
prosecutions were taken for Sunday Trading, one for obstruction of a shops inspector
and one for failure to close for a half-day.
The recorded number of shops in the borough is 1,829. A street market with
forty licensed sites trades six days a week. A further six licensed street traders
are situated in other parts of the borough.
A privately-owned covered market trades six days a week in the Edmonton
area and another private market is held in the Enfield market square every Saturday.
During the year, 2,848 visits were made to shops and stalls. Some of these were
primary inspections, and minor contraventions noted were found to have been
remedied on re-inspection. No prosecutions were taken.
(See Statistical Table 40)
HAIRDRESSERS' AND BARBERS' PREMISES
Bye-laws for securing the cleanliness of any premises used for these businesses
and of instruments, towels and materials used in such premises, were made by the
former Borough of Enfield in 1937 and by the former Borough of Edmonton in 1963.
In 1968 the Council obtained approval of bye-laws for the whole of the borough
under Section 77 of the Public Health Act, 1961.
Under Section 21 of the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act, 1967,
any London borough may adopt the section requiring the registration of any person
who carries on the business of a hairdresser or barber on premises in that borough
after a date to be fixed by the Council. The Council adopted the section for the
London Borough of Enfield from the 1st April, 1968.
Each applicant for registration received a copy of the bye-laws.
Three hundred and thirty-three visits were made during the year. Some minor
defects found on initial surveys for registration were on re-inspection found to be
remedied.
MASSAGE AND SPECIAL TREATMENT ESTABLISHMENTS
Privately run establishments carrying on business for the purposes of providing
massage and other special treatments are required by the Council to be licensed
under the provisions of the Middlesex County Council Act, 1944, as amended by
an Order made under the London Government Act, 1963.
Licences expire on 31st March each year. Twenty-seven applications for
renewal were received and approved, and one new licence was granted.
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