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As a result of ins pections under the Food Hygiene Regulations a
considerable number of improvements have been carried out at many
public houses.
These include the provision of additional or improved sanitary
conveniences, washbasins, hot water supply, improved ventilation to
kitchens, bars and cellars and the more general use of detergents and
sterilising agents for the washing of utensils beer pipe lines and pumps.
The Consumer Protection Act, 1961
Three visits were made to premises from which heating appliances
are 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 III 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
premises on which it arises and if the notice is not complied w:*h 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, nof to be so operated as to give reasonable
cause for annoyance to persons in the vicinity.
Three complaints of noise were investigated and satisfactorily dealt
with during the year.
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