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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
work and recover the expenses incurred in so doing from the person on whom the
notice was served Thirty six notices were served under this section and in the
owners" default the stopped up drains were cleared by the Council in fifteen cases
SECTION 27 (Remedying of defective premises). Notices were served under
this section in five 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 of the Public Health (London)
Act 1936 In four cases the work was carried out by the Council after the
expiration of the statutory period of nine days and in the other case the
owner served a counter notice but failed to complete the work within a reason
able time and it was necessary for the Council to exercise their 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. the person 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 notices were served
in respect of tenement houses
NOISE ABATEMENT ACT, 1960
This Act amends Section 66 of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1937
SECTION 1 (Noise or vibration nuisances) enacts that a noise nuisance
shall be a nuisance which may be dealt with summarily under the Public Health
(London) Act 1936. This section applies to vibration as it does to noise
but does not apply to noise or vibration caused by aircraft
Some sixty three complaints of noise and/or vibrations were received
necessitating 287 visits and observations being made as a result of which
nine nuisances were discovered three informal notices and one statutory
notice were served and in all cases the nuisances were abated or improvements
were effected