Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act 1951

35 Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• " authorised officer of a local authority " means an officer authorised by the local authority in writing, either generally or specially, to act in matters of any specified kind or in any specified matter, except that the medical officer of health and sanitary inspector of the local authority shall by virtue of their appointments be deemed to be authorised officers of that local authority for all the purposes of this Act;

• " local authority " means, except as respects the administrative county of London, the council of a borough or urban or rural district, and as respects any area in the administrative county of London, the sanitary authority for that area for the purposes of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936;

• " prescribed " means prescribed by regulations;

• " public analyst " means public analyst for the purposes of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, including a deputy public analyst appointed under subsection (6) of section sixty-six of that Act and acting during any vacancy in the office of public analyst or during the absence or incapacity of the holder of that office ;

• " rag flock " means flock which has been produced wholly or partly by tearing up spun or woven or knitted or felted materials, whether old or new, but does not include flock obtained wholly in the processes of the scouring, milling or finishing of newly woven or newly knitted or newly felted fabrics.