Clause 8. — (Enforcement by district councils of certain provisions of Part I.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Factories Bill. – in the House of Commons am ar 16 Mehefin 1937.

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Photo of Mr Thomas Cooper Mr Thomas Cooper , Edinburgh West

I do not think they are, except in respect that it will no longer be, in terms of the 1901 Act, for the medical officer of health or the inspector of nuisances to make these reports to the council. The sanitary inspector, of course, will still continue to discharge many duties for his council under such subjects as Clause 7 (Sanitary conveniences), Clause 4 (Ventilation), and the rest of it. He will do that as a servant of the council; he will not do it under specific statutory directions such as are contained in the Act of 1901. Except in that respect there will be no curtailment of powers, but if the hon. and gallant Member's Amendment were accepted, there would be a very substantial extension of the sanitary inspector's powers over and above what he has at present.