Bassett's environmental health procedures /
Deveaux, Tim,author.
Preceded by (work) :Bassett, W. H.Environmental health procedures.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ch. 1 Environmental health legal structure and process -- Environmental health law: an introduction -- The framework for enforcement policies -- Enforcing authorities -- Enforcement options -- Alternative actions in enforcement -- Primary authorities -- Service of notices by local authorities -- Professional practice -- Preparing a case -- Court procedure -- ch. 2 Environmental protection -- Air quality -- Clean Air Act 1993 -- General procedural provisions -- Clean Air Act 1993 -- Height of chimneys serving furnaces -- Height of chimneys not serving furnaces -- Control of grit and dust from furnaces -- Measurement of grit and dust from furnaces -- Prohibition of dark smoke etc. from chimneys -- Prohibition of dark smoke etc. from industrial and trade premises -- Smoke control areas -- Burning of crop residues -- Obtaining information about atmospheric pollution -- Environment Act 1995 -- General procedural provisions -- Environment Act 1995 --
Contents note continued: Local authority reviews of air quality -- Air quality management areas -- Environmental damage -- Environmental damage -- Land -- General procedural provisions: Environmental Protection Act 1990 -- Contaminated land -- Noise -- Noise: introduction -- Control of Pollution Act 1974 -- General procedural provisions -- Control of Pollution Act 1974 -- Consents for the use of loudspeakers in streets -- Noise from construction sites -- Noise abatement zones: designation by local authorities -- Noise abatement zones: measurement and registration of noise levels and consent to exceed them -- Noise abatement zones: noise level determinations for new buildings -- Noise abatement zones: noise reduction notices -- Noise Act 1996 -- Noise from certain premises at night -- Seizure of equipment used to make noise unlawfully -- Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 -- Audible alarms notification areas -- Anti-Social Behaviour Orders -- Pollution prevention --
Contents note continued: Environmental permitting -- Permitting of activities by Local Authorities -- ch. 3 Food safety -- Food control and hygiene legislation: legal structure -- Registration of food business establishments -- Approval of product-specific establishments -- Hygiene improvement notices -- Hygiene prohibition orders -- Hygiene emergency prohibition notices and orders -- Remedial action notices and detention notices -- Detention and seizure of food -- Imported food -- Sampling of food for analysis and examination -- Closure notices on mollusc harvesting areas -- ch. 4 Health and safety -- General procedural provisions -- Improvement and prohibition notices -- Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences -- Notification of cooling towers and evaporative condensers -- Seizure of dangerous articles or substances -- ch. 5 Housing and health -- Structure of the law dealing with housing standards and their enforcement -- General procedural provisions --
Contents note continued: Housing standards: the housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS) -- Housing standards for accommodation of the homeless -- Enforcement options -- Enforcement -- Defective premises -- Ruinous and dilapidated buildings -- Dangerous buildings -- Protection of buildings -- Empty dwelling management orders -- Demolition of buildings -- Demolition orders -- Clearance areas -- Hazard awareness notices -- Improvement notices -- Notice of emergency remedial action -- Prohibition orders -- Emergency prohibition orders -- Overcrowding notices for non-HMOs -- Overcrowding notices for HMOs -- Housing licensing -- Selective licensing of residential accommodation -- Houses in multiple occupation -- Houses in multiple occupation declarations -- Licensing of houses in multiple occupation -- Designation of areas by local authorities for the additional licensing of HMOs -- Interim management orders -- Final management orders -- Temporary exemption notices for HMOs --
Contents note continued: Rent repayment orders -- Private landlords' accreditation schemes -- Miscellaneous -- Means of escape from certain high buildings -- Temporary accommodation -- Licensing of camping sites -- Licensing of caravan sites -- ch. 6 Public health -- Animal welfare -- Animal boarding establishments -- Dangerous wild animals -- Dog breeding establishments -- Pet shops -- Riding establishments -- Disease control -- General procedural provisions: Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 -- Infectious diseases control -- Key to powers available for the control of disease -- Proper officer -- Notification of diseases -- Local authority powers -- Power to order health measures in relation to persons, things and premises -- Disinfection or decontamination of things and premises -- Cleansing of filthy or verminous premises, articles and persons -- Removal of persons in need of care -- Skin piercing and other special treatments -- Dog control -- Dog control orders --
Contents note continued: Seizure of stray dogs -- Exhumations -- Exhumations -- Removal of unauthorised campers -- Removal of unauthorised campers -- Pest control -- Control of rats and mice -- Port health -- Infectious diseases control -- aircraft -- Infectious diseases control -- trains -- Infectious diseases control -- ships -- Sanitation and drainage -- General procedural provisions: Public Health Act 1936 and 1961 -- General procedural provisions: Building Act 1984 -- Defective sanitary conveniences -- Sanitary conveniences: provision/replacement -- Sanitary conveniences at places of entertainment etc. -- Conversion of earth closets etc. to water closets -- Blocked private sewers -- Stopped-up drains, private sewers, etc. -- Defective drainage to existing buildings -- Repair of drains, private sewers, etc. by local authorities -- Paving of yards and passages -- Overflowing and leaking cesspools -- Statutory nuisances -- Statutory nuisances -- Waste -- Waste on land --
Contents note continued: Litter -- Litter abatement orders -- Litter abatement notices -- Litter clearing notices -- Street litter control notices -- Litter offences -- Removal of noxious matter -- Accumulations of rubbish -- Removal and disposal of abandoned refuse -- Removal of controlled waste on land -- Abandoned trolleys -- Abandoned vehicles -- Receptacles for commercial and industrial waste -- Receptacles for household waste -- Scrap metal dealers -- Water supply -- General procedural provisions: Water Industry Act 1991 -- Control over public water supplies -- Control over private water supplies -- Water supply for new houses -- Authorisations for quality standards for public water supplies -- Closure or restriction of polluted water supply -- ch. 7 Public safety -- Licensing Act 2003 -- Alcohol and entertainment licences: Licensing Act 2003 -- Personal licences -- Premises licences -- Club premises certificates -- Permitted temporary activities --
Contents note continued: Closure of licenced premises -- Gambling Act 2005 -- Gambling Act 2005 -- Premises licences -- Casino licence applications -- Temporary use of premises for gambling -- Gaming and gaming machines in alcohol-licensed premises -- Permits for gaming and gambling machines in clubs and miners' welfare institutes -- Permits to family entertainment centres for the use of certain lower-stake gaming machines -- Permits for prize gaming -- Registering small society lotteries -- Miscellaneous -- Controls over trading on Sundays at large shops -- Street trading -- Street collections -- Sex establishment licences.
Public health laws
Environmental law
Environmental health