{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14-15/63",
  "legislation_title": "Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act 1951 (repealed 6.1.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Right to have samples tested.",
  "text": "(1) If an authorised officer of a local authority considers that a sample should be tested, he shall submit it to be tested by a prescribed analyst or, where there is no prescribed analyst, by the public analyst for the area in which the sample was procured.\n(2) A person may submit a sample of filling materials to which this Act applies to a prescribed analyst or, where there is no prescribed analyst, to the public analyst for the area where the person resides or carries on business.\n(3) The analyst shall test as soon as practicable any sample sent to him in pursuance of this section, and give to the person by whom it was submitted a certificate in the prescribed form specifying the result of the test.\n(4) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State when making regulations prescribing analysts for the purposes of this Act to secure that, except where a public analyst is prescribed, any person so prescribed has first given his consent and has a right to withdraw his consent after reasonable notice.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1989/979, art. 3(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 15(5) repealed by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 194, Sch. 34 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 15 excluded by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14-15/63/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:00.014042+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}