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SECTION 26 (Supply of water to premises vhere supply cut off). In the case of
two premises where the Metropolitan Water Board had discontinued the water
supply because of defective fittings, notices informing the owners that the
Council proposed to carry out the works necessary to secure reinstatement of
the water supply were served the necessary works were executed by the Council.
SECTION 27 (Remedying of defective premises). Notices were served under this
section in two cases where it was considered that unreasonable delay in
remedying the defective state of the houses would be occasioned by following
the procedure prescribed in the Fifth Schedule to the Public Health (London)
Act 1936 In neither case was it necessary to exercise the Council's default
powers.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1956
SECTION 63 (Bylaws as to artificial lighting of common staircases). This
section empowers a Borough Council to make Bylaws with respect to tenement
houses and flats for the adequate artificial lighting of any common staircase
in such premises. Bylaws made by the Council and confirmed by the Minister on
the 28th March. 1958 came into operation on the 1st May, 1958, and require the
occupier of every tenement house (i.e. theperson having control of the lettings
of the separate tenements) and the owner of every block of flats to provide
adequate artificial lighting for common staircases
(a) from half an hour before sunset until half an hour before sunrise
during the months of April, May, June, July, August and September;
(b) from one hour before sunset until sunrise during the months of
October, November, December, January, February and March; and
(c) At other times as and when necessary if adequate means of natural
lighting are not provided.
The Bylaws provide that any person offending against them shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding FIVE POUNDS, and in the case of
a continuing offence to a further fine not exceeding FORTY SHILLINGS for
each day during which the offence continues after conviction.
Under the provisions of these Bylaws two informal and two formal notices
were served in respect of tenement houses,
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT 1959
SECTIONS 22 and 23 (Control of Moveable Dwellings). There are no caravan sites
in this Borough,
SECTION 25 (As to provision of sanitary conveniences at inns refreshment houses,
etc.), gives power to a borough council to serve notices requiring the owner or
occupier of any inn, refreshment house or place of public entertainment within
the borough, to provide and maintain in a suitable position such number of sanitary
conveniences for the use of persons frequenting the premises as may be
reasonable. The provisions of section 286 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1936 apply in relation to any notices served under this section
One notice requiring the provision of additional sanitary conveniences at
a restaurant, licensed as a refreshment house, was served. The owners lodged
an appeal which at the end of the year had not been determined
NOISE ABATEMENT ACT, 1960
This Act amends Section 66 of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1937.
SECTION 1 (No ise or vibration nui sances) enacts that a noise nuisance shall be
a nuisance which may be dealt with summarily under the Public Health (London)