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Air quality, including regulation of pollution from factories and
homes
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Local authorities are responsible for measuring the quality of air
people breathe, for taking action with others where the quality is
below approved standards, and for regulating pollution from some
industry and from domestic premises.
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Alcohol, entertainment and late night refreshment licensing
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Grant licences and certificates to premises, members' clubs and
individuals selling and supplying alcohol and/or providing
regulated entertainment and / or late night refreshment; and
enforce related licensing offences and conditions attached such
licences and certificates.
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Animal and public health, animal movements and identification
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Ensures animal feed does not include prohibited or harmful
ingredients and is made hygenically. Provides for the control of
animal disease (including those that can be transmitted to humans),
and for the traceability of animals from farm to fork.
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Approval of food manufacturing premises
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Check premises where food is to be made are safe and hygienic and
issue certificate. Approval should be sought before business is
allowed to trade.
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Consumer credit (advertising, illegal money lending)
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Ensures traders inform customers of their obligations and rights
when taking credit, and advertise credit fairly
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Contaminated land
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To ensure unacceptable risk to humans and the environment from land
contamination is found and dealt with.
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Farmed animal welfare and licensing of premises for companion/other
animals (welfare/breeding/safety)
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Provides for the welfare of animals on farm, during transport and
at market. Ensures that premises/events with animals (e.g. pet
shops, dog shows) use suitable premises with appropriate safety
controls.
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Food Standards (labelling)
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Ensure food sold is properly labelled
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Hygiene of businesses selling, distributing and manufacturing food
and the safety and fitness of food in the premises
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Ensure premises selling or making food follow hygiene regulations
and that food within the premises is safe
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Imported foods
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Ensure food imported is safe, hygienic and its composition is
correct
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Improving health in the workplace
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To reduce the incidence of ill-health and days lost arising from
work activities (in particular in relation to muscular skeletal
disorders, stress and chemicals), promote compliance with the law,
and reduce the cost and suffering to individuals, companies and
society.
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Licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) for amenity
standards and management
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To maintain minimum standards in privately rented multiple-occupied
housing accommodation (HMOs) through licence conditions and
management regulations
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Local environmental quality
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To improve the quality of the local environment, by deterring
litter, fly-tipping, fly-posting, graffiti and dog fouling; to
require managers of land used by the public to remove litter and
abandoned vehicles; and to enable local authorities to use
enforcement powers to tackle poor environmental quality and
anti-social behaviour.
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Misleading prices
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Ensure traders do not mislead consumers to the price of goods,
services or accommodation
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Noise nuisances; prevention and control
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To deal with local complaints on noise
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Notification/ prevention of infectious diseases
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Prevent dangerous, contagious diseases from spreading widely
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Operation of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and its
associated enforcement powers in private sector housing
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To assess and deal with unhealthy and hazardous conditions in
housing accommodation
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Product safety (subject to specific safety regulations)
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Ensure products placed on the market are safe (for products with
specific safety regulations e.g. fireworks, toys, furniture
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Product safety (not subject to specific safety regulations)
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Ensure products placed on the market are safe (for products with no
specific safety regulations)
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Safety and wholesomeness of food stuffs
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Ensure food for sale is safe and of good quality and deal with
contamination by foreign objects, chemicals etc through routine
sampling and analysis
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Trade description/ trade marking/ mis-description/ doorstep selling
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Ensure traders describe goods/services accurately. Includes
counterfeiting and rogue trading.
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Underage sales and associated anti-social behaviour
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Ensure cigarettes, alcohol, knives, fireworks, air guns and
solvents (and other age restricted purchases including CDs/DVDs)
are not sold to underage buyers and prevent other anti-social
behaviour
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Work-related safety- preventing accidents from transport and
machinery on site and within the delivery chain
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To reduce the incidence of injury, and days lost arising from
workplace transport on site and within the delivery chain.
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Workplace safety- housekeeping, preventing slips, trips and falls
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To reduce the incidence of injury, and days lost arising from slips
and trip incidents in the workplace.
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