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Some thirty-six complaints of noise and/or vibrations were received
necessitating 183 visits and observations being made, as a result of which
twelve nuisances were discovered; three informal notices were served.
OIL BURNERS (STANDARDS) ACT, 1960
This Act received the Royal Assent on the 29th July, and came into
operation on the 1st January, 1961.
SECTION 1 (Safety standards and instructions for use of oil heaters) enacts
that -
(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide -
(a) for requiring oil heaters of such class or description as may be
specified in the regulations, or any component part of an oil
heater, being a part of such class or description as may be so
specified, to comply with such standards of safety as in his
opinion are appropriate to reduce or prevent the risk of fire;
(b) for requiring oil heaters of such class or description as may be
so specified to bear, by means of such a label or such other
means as may be so specified, instructions on such matters as
may be prescribed as to the working and use of the oil heaters;
(c) for any other matter for which regulations are authorised under
this Act.
(2) Regulations made under this section may contain different provisions
for different classes or descriptions of oil heaters or component parts of oil
heaters and, in the case of regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (a)
of the foregoing subsection, may prescribe the means for ascertaining for the
purposes of this Act whether any oil heaters or component parts comply with the
requirements of the regulations.
SECTION 2 (Prohibition of sale, etc., of oil heaters or component parts
not complying with regulations).
Subject to certain circumstances -
(1) If any person in the course of a business sells, or lets under a
hire-purchase agreement or on hire, or has in his possession for the purpose of
selling or letting, an oil heater and either -
(a) the oil heater, or a component part of it, does not comply with
any standard of safety prescribed for the class or description
of oil heater, or as the case may be, component part, to which
the oil heater or component part belongs; or
(b) the oil heater does not bear instructions in compliance with the
requirements of any regulations made for the purposes of subparagraph
(b) of section one of this Act,
he shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be guilty of an offence.
(2) If any person, in the course of a business, sells, or has in his
possession for the purpose of selling, a component part intended for, but not
embodied in, an oil heater and the component part does not comply with the
standards of safety prescribed for the class or description of component part
to which it belongs, he shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be
guilty of an offence.
SECTION 3 (Inspection and testing of oil heaters and component parts) empowers
an officer of a local authority duly authorised in writing in that behalf, on
Producing if so required his authority, to inspect an oil heater for the
Purpose of determining whether -