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(A) Applications for Certificates of Disrepair
From 1959
6.7.57 only
to end
of 1959
Number of applications received 138 12
" decisions not to issue certificates
" applications withdrawn 8
" decisions to issue certificates 119 14
(a) in respect of some but not all defects 94 10
(b) in respect of all defects 25 4
Number of undertakings given by landlords under
paragraph 5 of the First Schedule (Form K) 67 9
Number of undertakings refused by Local Authority
under proviso to paragraph 5 of the First Schedule
Number of certificates of disrepair issued
(1 application withdrawn after service of Form J) 51 5
(B) Applications for Cancellation of Certificates
Number of applications received 24 12
" objections to cancellation received 4 2
" certificates cancelled. 21 12
" objections to cancellation upheld 3 2
Number cancelled in spite of tenant'sobjection 1 1
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936 - WORKPLACES
Inspections Number of written Occupiers
and verbal notices prosecuted
40 2
FACTORIES ACT, 1937 - OUTWORK
(Sections 110 and 111)
One hundred and twelve visits were made during the year to
the homes of outworkers residing in the Borough.
CLEAN AIR ACT, 1956
The remaining provisions of the Act, not already covered by
the Clean Air Act (appointed day) Order 1956, and 'The Dark
Smoke (Permitted Periods) Regulations, 1958' came into operation
on the 1st June, 1958.
Section 1 of the Act prohibits, with certain exceptions,
the emission of dark smoke from chimneys. A chimney is defined
as including structures and openings of any kind from or through
which smoke may be emitted (e.g. louvres in the roofs of buildings).
The regulations permit the following: -
(1) Not more than 10 minutes of dark smoke In the aggregate
from any chimney In any period of 8 hours, or 14 minutes
in 8 hours of soot-blowing is carried out within that
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