Refuse storage and collection : report / Working Party on Refuse Collection.

  • Great Britain. Working Party on Refuse Collection
Date:
1967
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Credit: Refuse storage and collection : report / Working Party on Refuse Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Salvage 32. A local authority may sell refuse which they have removed from any premises under the Public Health Act 19364. The Public Health (London) Act 1936, now repealed, stated expressly that refuse so removed became the property of the local authority. Some councils have successfully prosecuted refuse col- lectors who removed salvageable articles from the refuse without permission and who sold them for their own benefit. Storage of refuse 33. A local authority can require the owner or occupier of premises from which they have undertaken the removal of house refuse to provide one or more covered dustbins of such material, size and construction as the authority may approve. In the event of non-compliance, or if the bins are not kept in good condition, the authority can provide bins themselves and recover the cost reasonably incurred. The person in default may also be fined 20s?. A similar power enables the councils of inner London boroughs to require the occupier of any building within their area to provide dustbins for trade refuse*. In both cases a person aggrieved at being required to provide a dustbin may appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction. 34. Instead of requiring owners and occupiers of buildings to provide and maintain dustbins for house refuse (or for trade refuse in inner London), the local authority may undertake to provide them. For each dustbin they supply they may make an annual charge up to a maximum fixed by the Minister in statutory regulations—the present maximum? is 7s. 6d. a year per bin—and they may recover the charge as part of the general rate for the premises?. This limit does not apply in Greater London if the bins provided have a capacity of over 34 cubic feet®. 35. There is no provision in the Public Health Act 1936 expressly authoris- ing local authorities to finance the supply of municipal bins from the general rate; but Section 75(3) of the Act could be interpreted as permitting them to do so and many local authorities have acted on this interpretation instead of making a charge for each bin supplied. Some have taken local Act powers to put the matter beyond doubt. 36. Inner London authorities may require the provision, to their satisfac- tion, of accommodation for bins for house or trade refuse, with satisfactory access to a street, in the case of new buildings, or ones being rebuilt, or where substantial alterations of use or structure are being made. There is a right of appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction®. A similar provision applies in Leeds’. Paper sacks 37. A dustbin is defined by the Public Health Act 1936 as ‘a movable recep- tacle for the deposit of ashes or refuse’. Paper sacks with their holders appear to 1 Section 76, Public Health Act 1936. 2 Section 75, Public Health Act 1936. * Article 25, London Government Order 1965 (S.I. 1965 No. 654). 4 In the Local Authorities (Charges for Dustbins) Order, 1957 (S.I. 1957 No. 304). 5 Eleventh Schedule, London Government Act 1963. 6 Section 24, London County Council (General Powers) Act 1959; Section 11, London County Council (General Powers) Act 1963; Section 32, City of London (Various Powers) Act 1961; as applied by Local Law Orders 1965 (S.L.s 1965, 540 and 508). 7 Leeds Corporation Act 1966.
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