Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Regulations 1981
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1981/1218 |
| Year | 1981 |
1981 No. 1218
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND
The Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Regulations 198118thAugust 1981
2ndSeptember 1981
23rdSeptember 1981
The Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Scotland acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9(4), 15, 30, 33 and 34 of the Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act 1951(a) and now vested in them (b) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations:—
Title and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 23rd September 1981.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these regulations—
"the Act" means the Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act 1951;
"British Standard 1425:1960" means the British Standard of that number and year and incorporating the amendments set out in Schedule 1;
"registered or licensed premises" means premises registered or licensed under the Act; and
"Schedule" means a Schedule to these regulations.
(2) References in these regulations to the cleanliness test, the oil and soap test, the animal fibre test, the trash content test, the chlorides test, the dust index test and the cleanliness test (water extract) shall be construed as references, respectively, to tests carried out in accordance with the provisions of Appendices C, D, E, F, G, H, P and Q to British Standard 1425:1960.
(3) Any reference in these regulations to a certificate or form shall include a reference to a certificate or form to the like effect.
Prescription of materials
3. The following materials are hereby prescribed as filling materials to which the Act applies, that is to say—
(a) rubberised hair and fibre;
(a) 1951 c. 63.
(b) S.I. 1970/1681.
(b) through-bonded and surface-bonded felt manufactured from loose or layered fillings complying with Part 1 of British Standard 1425:1960;
(c) through-bonded and surface-bonded felt manufactured from new and unused filling materials complying with a Part (other than Part 1) of British Standard 1425:1960 applicable to those fillings;
(d) cellular rubber and cellular plastics crumb;
(e) all kinds of wood fillings, including wood shavings, sawdust and wood wool (new or used);
(f) felt containing not less than 40 per cent of animal fibre;
(g) felt containing less than 40 per cent of animal fibre and complying with Part 1 of British Standard 1425:1960; and
(h) unwoven man-made fibres and man-made fibre block other than unwoven synthetic fibres and synthetic fibre block.
Standards of cleanliness
4.—(1) The standards of cleanliness applicable for the purposes of the Act in relation to each kind of filling materials described in column 1 of Schedule 2 shall be such that a sample of those materials taken, submitted and prepared for testing in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 3 shall, when submitted to the tests appropriate thereto as shown in column 2 of Schedule 2, satisfy the requirements set opposite those tests respectively in column 3 of Schedule 2.
(2) Additionally all filling materials to which the Act applies shall be free from vermin; and in this paragraph "vermin" includes the eggs, larvae and pupae of insects and parasites.
Analysts
5.—(1) The persons named in Schedule 4 are, with their several consents, hereby prescribed as the analysts for the purposes of the Act.
(2) Any of the said persons may at any time give not less than one month's written notice to the Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Scotland of his desire to withdraw his consent to prescription as aforesaid and upon the expiry of such notice he shall cease to be so prescribed.
Certificates of testing
6. A certificate given in pursuance of section 15 of the Act with respect to any sample shall be in the following form:—
I certify that I have subjected the sample of (here state the kind of filling materials of which the sample was composed… .. received by me from (here give the name and address of the person by whom the sample was submitted)… .. on (insert date)… .. and (where necessary or expedient here specify any special markings, etc, used to identify the sample)… .. to the undermentioned tests in accordance with the Rag Flock and Other Filling
Materials Regulations 1981 and that the results of these tests were as shown hereunder:—
Tests Results
1 1
2 2
etc etc
Remarks
Date … ..
Signed … ..
Prescribed Analyst
Records
7.—(1) The records to be kept under section 9 of the Act by the occupiers of registered or licensed premises shall be in the appropriate forms set out in Schedule 5.
(2) All such records shall be kept separately from any other records and all entries therein shall be made in ink.
Revocation
8. The Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Regulations 1971(a) are hereby revoked.
Regulation 2(1)
SCHEDULE 1
AMENDMENTS TO BRITISH STANDARD 1425:1960
PD 4041 issued February 1961
PD 4296 " September 1961
PD 4687 " October 1962
PD 5355 " October 1964
Supplement No. 1 " 1966
PD 5973 " January 1967
PD 6283 " November 1967
Amendment slip No. 7 " 7th December 1970
Amendment slip No. 8 " 1st July 1971
Amendment slip No. 9 " 15th September 1971
Amendment slip No. 10 " 22nd January 1973
Amendment slip No. 11 " 31st October 1973
Amendment slip No. 12 " 29th April 1977
Amendment slip No. 13 " 30th November 1979
Amendment slip No. 14 " 30th June 1981
(a) S.I. 1971/1652.
Regulation 4(1)
SCHEDULE 2
(1) (2) (3)
Kind of Filling Appropriate Test Requirements
Materials
1. Rag Flock Cleanliness test Not to contain more than
1·8 per cent of
soluble extracted
matter
Oil and soap test Not to contain more than
5 per cent of oil and
soap
Chlorides test Not to contain more than
200 parts per 1,000,000
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