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6. Animals, goods and equipment shall not be placed or kept outside the
shop so as to render ingress or egress difficult in case of fire or
other emergency,
7. A supply of water and sand and/or an efficient fire extinguisher
must always be available on the premises. In the case of lock-up
premises, the licensee shall appoint a responsible person residing
within a reasonable distance of the premises to have custody of the
key outside business hours. The name and address of such person
shall be displayed in legible characters on the front door or windows
of the premises and be notified to the local police.
8. Animals shall not be handed to customers in paper bags or other
unsuitable containers.
9. Where animals are kept in cages, hutches, boxes or other receptacles
placed on top of other cages, hutches, boxes or other receptacles
effective means shall be provided for preventing water, food or
other droppings falling on to or contaminating the animals or receptacles
which are underneath.
Visits to the 18 Pet Shops licensed revealed no infringement of the terms
of the licences.
RAG FLOCK AND OTHER PILLING MATERIALS ACT, 1951
This Act requires (a) the registration with the sanitary authority of all
premises where such filling materials as are specified in the Act are used, and
(b) the licensing annually by the local authority of premises in which rag
flock is manufactured or stored. A sanitary authority must register all
premises for which application is made, and the registration is for an indefinite
period, but any change of occupier must be notified to the authority.
A sanitary authority may refuse to licence premises, but if they do so, must
give notice of their decision to the applicant and, if required, a statement
of the grounds for their refusal, Appeal against a refusal may be made to
the Minister of Housing and Local Government., The Rag Flock and Other Filling
Materials Regulations, 1951, relate to the form of records to be kept on
registered and licensed premises, the standards of cleanliness applicable to
the various types of filling materials the appointment of analysts to carry
out the appropriate tests, and the fees to be charged for such tests.
Premises registered for the use of filling materials numbered 36; one
premises was licensed for storage of rag flock, and no premises were registered
for its manufacture. No contraventions of the Act or Regulations were
found at licensed or registered premises. Eleven samples of filling materials
were subjected to the tests prescribed by the Regulations, and ten were found
to be satisfactory. The one unsatisfactory sample was rag flock, the chlorine
content of which was 55 parts per 100,000 as compared with the permitted 30
parts per 100,000, The analyst reported that this sample was clean and that
the excess chlorine was due to the dye present in the material which had not
been submitted to water treatment. The manufacturers were informed of the
result of the analysis and as a consequence collected the stock from the firm
in this Borough and sold it, together with the stocks which they themselves
held, to a firm manufacturing roofing felt The Chiltern Research Laboratories,
Limited, one of the analysts prescribed by the Regulations, carried
out these tests.
HEATING APPLIANCES (FIREGUARDS) ACT, 1952
This Act prohibits the sale or letting of certain heating appliances
without effective guards and came into operation on 23rd March, 1953. The
Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Regulations, 1953, made by the Secretary of
State became operative on the 1st October, 1953, and require fireguards to be
fitted to gas fires, electric fires and oil heaters which are so designed that