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If after the appointed day any person carries on the business of hairdresser
or barber without his name and premises being registered by the Borough
Council in whose area the premises concerned are situated, or contravenes or
fails to comply with the appropriate by-laws, he is liable on summary conviction:
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(a) In the case of a business being carried on from unregistered
premises, to a fine not exceeding £20 and a daily fine not exceeding
£5! and
(b) In the case of a contravention of or failure to comply with a by-law,
to a fine not exceeding £51
and in either case the Court by which he is convicted may (in lieu of or in
addition to imposing a fine) order the suppression or cancellation of his
registration.
Penalties are also provided in the case of any person whose registration
is cancelled by order of the Court failing within seven days to deliver to the
Borough Council his Certificate of Registration. Where a person's registration
has been cancelled he cannot again be registered except in pursuance of a
further order of a Court of Summary Jurisdiction made on his application.
The Borough Council resolved that the 1st February, 1955 be the appointed
day for the purpose of registration of hairdressers and barbers.
The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee have now produced
draft by-laws which they suggest should be adopted by all metropolitan borough
councils and forwarded to the Minister of Housing and Local Government for
confirmation.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948
SECTION 50 (Burial or cremation of the dead) places upon (in London) the
sanitary authority an obligation to cause to be buried or cremated the body of
any person who has died or been found dead in their area, in any case where it
appears to the authority that no suitable arrangements for the disposal of the
body have been or are being made otherwise than by the authority. Cremation
must not be undertaken where the authority has reason to believe that it would
be contrary to the wishes of the deceased. The authority is empowered to
recover from the estate of the deceased person or from any person who, for the
purpose of the National Assistance Act, 1948, was liable to maintain the
deceased immediately before his death, expenses incurred in carrying out the
burial or cremation and to receive from the Minister of Pensions and National
Insurance death grants payable under Section 22 of the National Insurance Act,
1946,
As a result of Circular 13/49 issued by the Minister of Health, the
following arrangements operate in the case of certain persons whose burial a
local authority might otherwise be required to undertake:-
Persons dying in hospital
1. Burials to be arranged and paid for by Hospital Management Committees
or Boards of Governors of Teaching Hospitals in the case of
(a) deceased patients whose relatives cannot be traced;
(b) those whose relatives are traceable but were not, immediately before
the patient's death, liable for his maintenance under Section 42(1)
of the National Assistance Act and are not willing to arrange for the
burial; and
(c) those whose relatives are unable to obtain a death grant under the
National Insurance Act, 1946, and cannot otherwise afford to arrange
for burial,
2, Where "liable" relatives fail to carry out their responsibility to
arrange for the burial, the matter is referred to the local authority upon whom
the residual duty rests under Section 50 of the Act, in view of the powers of
recovery from the liable relative conferred upon them by subsection (4) of the
Section,