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Health Act 1956

Schedule 3: Offensive trades

You could also call this:

"Jobs that can be smelly, dirty or unpleasant but help keep our community clean and healthy"

The Health Act 1956 has a list of jobs that can be offensive or unpleasant. You might find some of these jobs smelly or dirty. They include things like blood or offal treating, bone boiling, and collecting and storing used bottles for sale.

Some other jobs on the list are fellmongering, fish cleaning, and gut scraping and treating. You will also find nightsoil collection and disposal, refuse collection and disposal, and septic tank desludging and disposal of sludge. These jobs can be unpleasant, but they are important for keeping our community clean and healthy.

The list also includes jobs like slaughtering animals, storing and preserving animal products, and tanning. You will also find wood pulping, wool scouring, and tallow melting on the list. This list is part of the Health Act 1956, which is empowered by s 2.

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3Offensive trades Empowered by s 2

Blood or offal treating

Bone boiling or crushing

Collection and storage of used bottles for sale

Dag crushing

Fellmongering

Fish cleaning

Fish curing

Flax pulping

Flock manufacturing, or teasing of textile materials for any purpose

Gut scraping and treating

Nightsoil collection and disposal

Refuse collection and disposal

Septic tank desludging and disposal of sludge

Slaughtering of animals for any purpose other than human consumption

Storage, drying, or preserving of bones, hides, hoofs, or skins

Tallow melting

Tanning

Wood pulping

Wool scouring

Notes
  • Schedule 3: amended, on , by section 56(1) of the Clean Air Act 1972 (1972 No 31).
  • Schedule 3: amended, on , by section 5(1) of the Health Amendment Act 1960 (1960 No 96).
  • Schedule 3: amended, on , by clause 2 of the Offensive Trades Order 1959 (SR 1959/79).