Government legislation
What Government legislation means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Reference: OCR
Parliament passed the 1667 Rebuilding of London Act, which local authorities had to implement, and the 1751 Gin Act increased taxes on gin and restricted its sale to licensed premises.
National laws such as the Public Health Acts, which in 1848 allowed but did not force towns to set up local Boards of Health, and in 1875 made sanitary provision compulsory.
Legislative action by the government to control environmental pollution, such as the 1956 Clean Air Act which established smokeless zones.
Topics that use Government legislation
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