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SECTION 18 (Hairdressers and Barbers). Applications for registration
received during the year:-
Persons 12
Premises 6
Inspections of registered premises 151
A total of 173 persons and 140 premises were on the Council's Register
at the end of the year.
An informal notice was served in respect of one premises at which
contraventions of the relevant Bylaws were found
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1955
SECTION 25 (Powers as to stopped-up or defective drains etc.). Under the
provisions of this section, if it appears to the borough surveyor or medical
officer of health or a public health inspector of a borough that on any
premises in the borough a drain water-closet or soil pipe is stopped up he may
by notice require the owner or occupier of the premises to remedy the defect
within forty-eight hours from the service of the notice and if the notice is
not complied with the borough council may themselves carry out the works
necessary to remedy the defect and may recover the expenses incurred in so
doing from the person on whom the notice was served. One notice was served
under this section, and in the owner's default, the stopped-up drain was
cleared by the Council.
SECTION 27 (Remedying of defective premises). One notice was served in
respect of premises where it was considered that unreasonable delay in
remedying the defective state of the premises would be occasioned by following
the procedure prescribed in the Fifth Schedule to the Public Health (London)
Act, 1936, and the Council carried out the necessary work in default.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1958
SECTION 18 (Transfer of certain functions under Section 38 of Shops Act,
1950). As from the 1st January, 1959, transfers to Metropolitan Borough
Councils responsibility for enforcing the following provisions of the Act
hitherto enforced by the County Council:
(a) Provision of suitable and sufficient means of lighting.
(b) Provision and maintenance of suitable and sufficient washing
facilities except in premises in respect of which a certificate
of exemption has been granted under sub-section 6.
(c) Provision and maintenance of suitable and sufficient facilities
for the taking of meals.
SECTION 30 (Power to execute drainage works by agreement). Under this
section a borough council may by agreement with the owner or occupier of any
premises themselves execute at his expense any work in connection with the
construction laying alteration repair cleansing or filling up of any drain
which he has been required by the borough council under this Act to execute or
which he is entitled to execute and for that purpose the borough council shall
have all such rights as he would have.
LITTER ACT. 1958
This Act, which is described as an Act to make provision for the abatement
of litter, came into operation on the 7th August, 1958, and makes it an offence
to leave litter out of doors in any place to which the public is allowed right