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8. Petroleum Spirit Storage.
Forty-eight premises are licensed to store petrol and petroleum
mixtures and total storage amounted to 92,450 gallons. During the
year petrol storage was discontinued at one premises and petrol mixtures
storage at one premises. New licences were granted for the
storage of petroleum mixtures at two premises. The conditions of
licence require storage tanks to be tested in the 20th, 25 th and 30th
year after installation and thereafter in every second year, and 12
tanks were tested and all but one were found to be satisfactory. The
defective tank was filled with concrete slurry, and two other old tanks
at the garage were removed and replaced by two new larger tanks.
At another garage a storage tank was reported to be giving irregular
readings on the dipstick and a nitrogen pressure test applied to the
tank showed no evidence of leakage.
9. Caravan Sites.
The Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, 1960 came
into operation during the year. The Act gives local authorities
effective powers for controlling sites so that they may be properly
equipped and conducted and permitted only in acceptable places.
There is, in the Borough, only one licensed site which accommodates
three caravans.
10. Shops Act, 1950.
A number of enquiries are dealt with each year about general
closing hours and Sunday trading and the advice given is usually
acted upon with confidence. The co-operation of shopkeepers in dealing
with the complexities of the Act has not been lacking, and no
legal proceedings were taken during the year for contravention of
this Act.