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The Consumer Protection Act, 1961
Four visits were made to premises from which heating appliances
were sold.
This involved the carrying out of tests on the many types and designs
of heaters offered for sale. No infringements of the Act were discovered.
Noise Abatement Act, I960
Under Section 1 of this Act which came into operation on the
27th November, 1960, noise or vibration which would amount to a
nuisance at common law becomes a statutory nuisance which can be
dealt with according to the procedure provided in Part 111 of the Public
Health Act, 1936-
Local Authorities will under this procedure be able to require the
abatement of a noise or vibration nuisance by the service of an abatement
notice on the person causing the nuisance or on the owner or occupier of
the premises on which it arises and if the notice is not complied with it
can be enforced by proceedings in a magistrates court. Apart from
action by a local authority, three or more occupiers of land or premises
who are aggrieved by a noise or vibration nuisance may make a complaint
to a magistrate.
Section 2 of the Act deals with the use of loudspeakers in streets.
It prohibits their use for any purpose between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. (except
in special circumstances) and at any other time for advertising any trade,
business or entertainment with the exception that between noon and 7 p -m.
a loudspeaker fixed to a vehicle used for the sale of perishable foodstuffs
may be operated to announce that the commodities are for sale. The
loudspeaker is, however, not to be so operated as to give reasonable
cause for annoyance to persons in the vicinity.
Three complains of noise were investigated and satisfactorily dealt
with during the year.

Ten hospital kitchens were sprayed for flies, ants and moths.
The insecticides used were Pybuthrin, D.D.T. Residual and Municipal
Spray, Gammexane Liquid Spray, Zaldecide M. Powder and Fumex
Fumigators.
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