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This Act is designed to require fireguards to be fitted to gas
tires, electric fires and oil heaters of types so designed that they
are suitable for domestic use and so constructed that, without a
guard, there is likelihood of injury by burning or of ignition of
clothing by reason of contact with or proximity to the heating
element or flame.
The standards of construction and fitting of guards and the tests
to be employed in ascertaining whether guards comply with
prescribed standards are controlled by regulations.
SHOPS ACT, 1950.
Two hundred and sixty-nine visits of inspection were made by
the Sanitary Inspectors. Eighty-three contraventions were found
and 114 were remedied, which includes those outstanding at the
end of the previous year. The infringements were of a minor
character—principally the omission of exhibiting the statutory
forms.
No prosecutions were instituted during the year.
It is noticeable that the statutory hours of employment of
young persons in the shops were not. in any instances, exceeded.
The revised legislation has not yet been implemented.
RAG FLOCK AND OTHER FILLING MATERIALS
ACT, 1951.
Fifteen informal samples were taken and all conformed to the
standard of cleanliness laid down in the Regulations. The main
object of this Act is to protect the public. It prevents unclean
filling materials being used not only for bedding and upholstery,
but toys and other domestic articles.
PET ANIMALS ACT, 1951.
During the year, seven premises were licensed as pet shops
under the above Act.
Forty-three visits of inspection were made by the Sanitary
Inspectors and three nuisances found, two of these had been abated
by the end of the year.