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Compulsory Disclosure of Scrap Metal

22nd May 1942, Page 21
22nd May 1942
Page 21
Page 21, 22nd May 1942 — Compulsory Disclosure of Scrap Metal
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EVERY occupier of premises in certain areas of the country must furnish to the Ministry of Works and Buildings a return of any accumulation of 3 tons or more of metal suitable for scrap, on those premises. Prescribed forms are obtainable from the Director of Demolition and Recovery (Scrap Metal Order), Ministry of Works and Buildings, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London, S.W.1.

The first must be made within 30 days of May 14 or of any subsequent day on which such a weight of metal suitable for the purpose is brought on *to the premises.

The metal is deemed suitable if it forms part of any building, machinery, plant or article disused, obsolete or redundant. Aluminium, magnesi urn and their alloys are exempt. " Premises" means any building or land assessed under Schedule A or subject to valuation for rating. Returnsare not necessary where:— (a) the Board of Trade certifies that disuse is in consequence of an approved concentration scheme; (b) that the metal forms part of a stand-by plant held by public utility undertakings essential under their statutory obligations; (c) it is part of a machine tool specified in the first schedule to the Control of Machine Tools (No. 9) Order 1941, or a cutting tool specified in the first. schedule to the Cutting Tools (No. 1) Order 1942, or any Order replacing or amending them; (d) where returns are already made under. the Industry (Records and Information) Orders 1941 and 1942.

The areas immediately concerned_ are:—the London Civil Defence Region, and the Counties or County Boroughs of Essex, Dorset, Bristol, Nottingham, Monmouth, Leeds, East, West and Mid-Lothian. Returns from other areas will be required in due course.

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Locations: Bristol, Nottingham, Leeds, London

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