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De.fining the Establishment of a New Business.
For the purpose of Section 112 of the Public Health Act,
1875, and Section 51 of the Public Health Acts Amendment
Act, 1907, and any bye.laws made thereunder, a trade, business
or manufacture shall be deemed to be established anew not
only if it is newly established, but also if it is removed from
any one set of premises to any other premises, or if it is
renewed on the same set of premises after having been discontinued
for a period of one month or upwards, or if any
premises on which it is for the time being carried on are
enlarged without the sanction of the Council, but a trade,
business or manufacture shall not be deemed to be established
anew on any premises by reason only that the ownership of
such premises is wholly or partially changed or that the
building in which it is established having been wholly or
partially pulled down has been reconstructed without any
extension of its area. (Acton).
TENTS, VANS, SHEDS AND SIMILAR STRUCTURES.
The question of these buildings has received attention at the
hands of the Health Committee, during the year. Two prosecutions
were instituted under the bye.laws in respect of tents, vans, sheds
and similar structures, on December 1st, 1910. In one case the
tent.dweller did not answer the summons, and the justices adjourned
the other case for a month, to give the tent.dweller an
opportunity to conform to the bye.laws. At the expiry of the
month the two tents had disappeared, but; other tents with similar
contraventions of the bye.laws, had taken their places. At the
end of the year, thirteen tents and vans were occupying the field
on which the two original offenders had camped, and the Health
Committee had under consideration, the question of proceeding
under Section 34 of the County Council of Middlesex (General
Powers) Act, 1906, for " an order prohibiting the further occupation
of the land by any squatter, gipsy or other person, so as to cause
injury to residents in the neighbourhood, or to be a nuisance or
dangerous or injurious to health."