VPRS 15485 Health Register (GRS 1252)

This volume, which is also known as a "registered premises register", provides a record of the registration of all properties and businesses required to be registered under the Health Act of 1919 (no. 3041) and subsequent legislation including the Health Act of 1958 (no. 6270). Under this legislation a range of enterprises including food premises, eating houses, apartment houses, dairies, boarding houses, hairdressers' shops, beauty parlors and enterprises deemed to be "offensive trades" were required to be registered annually by the municipal council. The proprietor was required to apply for registration and pay a registration fee which was stipulated in regulations drawn up under the health acts. The local council could, if it chose to, inspect the premises and order any improvements to be made before it granted registration.Each entry usually gives details of the date of application for registration, name of the proprietor, the specific purpose for which the premises are used, date registration is granted, the address in which the premises are situated, details of the transfer of registration to another proprietor.Proprietors were required to apply for registration each year.These records have been identified as permanent under section 12.3.1 of the Public Record Office's Loocal Government Records General Disposal Schedule (PROS 98/01 Version 2002).