Any notice, order or other document which is required or authorised by or under this Act to be given to or served on any person may, in any case for which no other provision is made by or under this Act, be given or served either—
(a) by delivering it to that person—
(b) in the case of a coroner or the proper officer of a local authority, by leaving it or sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to him, at either his residence or his office, and, in the case of any other officer of a local authority, by leaving it or sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to him, at his office, or
(c) in the case of any other person, by leaving it, or sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to him, at his usual or last known residence, or
(d) in the case of an incorporated company or body, by delivering it to their secretary or clerk at their registered or principal office, or by sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to him at that office, or
(e) in the case of a document to be given to or served on a person as being the owner of any premises by virtue of the fact that he receives the rackrent of the premises as agent for another, or would so receive it if the premises were let at a rackrent, by leaving it, or sending it in a prepaid letteraddressed to him, at his place of business, or
(f) in the case of a document to be given to or served on the owner or the occupier of any premises, if it is not practicable after reasonable inquiry to ascertain the name and address of the person to or on whom it should be given or served, or if the premises are unoccupied by addressing it to the person concerned by the description of “ owner” or “ occupier” of the premises (naming them) to which it relates, and delivering it to some person on the premises or, if there is no person on the premises to whom it can be delivered, by affixing it, or a copy of it, to some conspicuous part of the premises.
(1) The appropriate Minister may by regulations make provision enabling notices, orders and other documents specified in the regulations to be given or served by an electronic communication.
(2) Such provision must however secure that the notices, orders and other documents specified in the regulations may only be so given or served if—
(a) the person to whom they are to be given or on whom they are to be served has consented in writing to the receipt of notices, orders and other documents by an electronic communication, and
(b) the communication is sent to the number or address specified by that person when giving consent.
(3) The power to make regulations under this section is exercisable by statutory instrument.
(4) An instrument containing any such regulations is subject to annulment—
(a) in the case of regulations made by the Secretary of State, in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament;
(b) in the case of regulations made by the Welsh Ministers, in pursuance of a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.
(5) Sections 58 to 60 are to be read subject to any provision made in regulations under this section.
(6) In this section—
“electronic communication” has the same meaning as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000,
“notices, orders and other documents” means notices, orders and other documents authorised or required by or under this Act to be given or served, and
“the appropriate Minister” means—
the Secretary of State, in relation to England;
the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, any proper officer of a relevant health protection authority shall, on producing, if so required, some duly authenticated document showing his authority have a right to enter any premises at all reasonable hours—
(a) for the purposes of ascertaining whether there is, or has been, any contravention of a relevant provision of this Act, or of an order made by a justice of the peace under Part 2A of this Act, which it is the function of the relevant health protection authority to enforce,
(b) for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not circumstances exist which would authorise or require the relevant health protection authority to take any action, or execute any work, under such a provision or in relation to such an order,
(c) for the purpose of taking any action, or executing any work, authorised or required by such a provision or in relation to such an order, or by any order made under such a provision, to be taken, or executed, by the relevant health protection authority, or
(d) generally, for the purpose of the performance by the relevant health protection authority of their functions under such a provision or in relation to such an order.
(2) Admission to any premises ... shall not be demanded as of right unless twenty–four hours’ notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier.
(2A) Subsection (1) does not authorise entry to any part of premises which is used as a private dwelling (but this does not affect the power of a justice of the peace under subsection (3) to issue a warrant authorising entry to a private dwelling or to any part of premises used as a private dwelling).
(3) If it is shown to the satisfaction of a justice of the peace on sworn information in writing—
(a) that admission to any premises has been refused, or that refusal is apprehended, or that the premises are unoccupied or the occupier is temporarily absent, or that the case is one of urgency, or that an application for admission would defeat the object of the entry, and
(b) that there is reasonable ground for entry into the premises for any such purpose as is mentioned in subsection (1) above.
the justice may by warrant under his hand authorise the relevant health protection authority by any proper officer to enter the premises, if need be by force.
(4) Such a warrant shall not be issued unless the justice is satisfied either that notice of the intention to apply for a warrant has been given to the occupier, or that the premises are unoccupied, or that the case is one of urgency, or that the giving of such notice would defeat the object of the entry.
(1) A proper officer (“the officer”) entering any premises by virtue of section 61 above, or of a warrant issued under that section, may take with him such other persons and such equipment and materials as may be necessary, and on leaving any unoccupied premises which he has entered by virtue of such a warrant he shall leave them as effectively secured against trespassers as he found them.
(1A) The officer may for the purpose for which entry is authorised—
(a) search the premises,
(b) carry out measurements and tests of the premises or of anything found on them,
(c) take and retain samples of the premises or of anything found on them,
(d) inspect and take copies or extracts of any documents or records found on the premises,
(e) require information stored in an electronic form and accessible from the premises to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible or from which it can readily be produced in a visible and legible form, and
(f) seize and detain or remove anything which the officer reasonably believes to be evidence of any contravention relevant to the purpose for which entry is authorised.
(2) Every warrant issued under that section shall continue in force until the purpose for which the entry is necessary has been satisfied.
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(4) Nothing in section 61 or this section limits the provisions of Parts 2A and 4, and of regulations made under Part 2A, with respect to entry into or upon, and inspection of, any premises.
(1) A person commits an offence if the person wilfully obstructs any person acting in the execution of a provision of Part 3 or 4 or this Part, or of any regulations, order or warrant made or issued under such a provision.
(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction—
(a) in the case of an offence of wilfully obstructing a person in the execution of a provision of Part 4 or of any regulations made under a provision of that Part, to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale, and
(b) in any other case, to a fine.
(1) If an offence created by or under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved—
(a) to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer, or
(b) to be attributable to any neglect on the part of an officer,
the officer (as well as the body corporate) is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(2) “Officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body, or a person purporting to act in any such capacity.
(3) If the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with the member's functions of management as if the member were a director of the body corporate.
(1) Proceedings for an offence alleged to have been committed by an unincorporated association are to be brought in the name of the association (and not in that of any of the members).
(2) Rules of court relating to the service of documents have effect as if the unincorporated association were a body corporate.
(3) In proceedings for an offence brought against an unincorporated association, Schedule 3 to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 applies as it applies to a body corporate.
(4) A fine imposed on an unincorporated association on its conviction for an offence is to be paid out of the funds of the association.
(5) If an offence committed by an unincorporated association is proved—
(a) to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer of the association or a member of its governing body, or
(b) to be attributable to any neglect on the part of such an officer or member,
the officer or member (as well as the association) is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(6) In this section, “ offence ” means an offence created by or under this Act.
(1) Proceedings in respect of an offence created by a provision of, or regulations under, this Act may not be taken by any person other than—
(a) a relevant health protection authority,
(b) a body whose function it is to enforce the provision or regulation in question, or
(c) a person who made (or whose predecessors made) the regulation in question.
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(1) Notwithstanding anything in section 127(1) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, a magistrates' court may try an information (or written charge) relating to an offence created by or under this Act if the information is laid (or the charge is issued)—
(a) before the end of the period of 3 years beginning with the date of the commission of the offence, and
(b) before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the date on which evidence which the prosecutor thinks is sufficient to justify the proceedings comes to the prosecutor's knowledge.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b)—
(a) a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which such evidence came to the prosecutor's knowledge is conclusive evidence of that fact, and
(b) a certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed is to be treated as so signed unless the contrary is proved.
Where by or under this Act provision is made for the imposition of a daily penalty in respect of a continuing offence, the court by which a person is convicted of the original offence may fix a reasonable period from the date of conviction for compliance by the defendant with any directions given by the court ; and, where the court has fixed such a period, the daily penalty shall not be recoverable in respect of any day before that period expires.
67 Applications to, and appeals from magistrates’ courts.
(1) Where this Act or a provision contained in regulations made under this Act provides for any matter to be determined by, or for an application in respect of a matter to be made to, a magistrates’ court, the procedure shall be by way of complaint for an order.
(2) Where a person aggrieved by any order, determination or other decision of a magistrates’ court under a relevant provision of this Act is not by any other enactment authorised to appeal to the Crown Court, he may appeal to the Crown Court.
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68 Judges and justices not to be disqualified by liability to rates.
A judge of any court or a justice of the peace shall not be disqualified from acting in cases arising under this Act by reason only of his being, as one of several ratepayers, or as one of any other class of persons, liable in common with the others to contribute to, or be benefited by, any rate or fund out of which any expenses of a local authority are to be defrayed.
(1) Nothing done by a relevant health protection authority or by one of its officers, and no contract entered into by such an authority, is to subject the authority or officer to any action, liability, claim or demand whatsoever if the thing is done, or the contract is entered into, bona fide for the purposes of executing a relevant provision of this Act.
(2) Any expense incurred by any such authority or officer acting bona fide as mentioned in subsection (1) is to be borne and repaid out of the fund applicable by the authority to its functions of executing the provision in question.
(3) Reference in this section to an officer of a relevant health protection authority also includes a member of that authority and any person acting under the direction of that authority.
(1) Subsection (2) applies if the appropriate Minister is satisfied that a relevant health protection authority has failed to discharge its functions under a relevant provision of this Act in any case where it ought to have discharged them.
(2) The appropriate Minister may make an order—
(a) declaring the authority to be in default, and
(b) directing the authority to discharge such of its functions, and in such manner and within such time or times, as may be specified in the order.
(3) If the authority fails to comply with a requirement of the order within the specified time, the appropriate Minister may—
(a) enforce the order by mandatory order or otherwise, or
(b) make an order transferring such of the functions of the authority to the Minister or such other public authority as may be specified in the order.
(4) If functions are transferred by virtue of subsection (3)(b) to the Minister, the Minister may direct another public authority to discharge them on the Minister's behalf.
(5) An order under subsection (3)(b) may include provision about the funding of the functions, including provision requiring the relevant health protection authority to bear any costs associated with the discharge of those functions by or on behalf of the Minister or other public authority.
(6) The appropriate Minister may vary or revoke an order made by the Minister under subsection (3)(b), but without prejudice to anything previously done under it.
(7) If such an order is revoked, the appropriate Minister may, either by the revoking order or by a subsequent order, make provision with respect to the transfer, vesting and discharge of any property or liabilities acquired or incurred by or on behalf of the Minister or other public authority in discharging any functions to which the revoking order related.
All powers and duties conferred or imposed by or under this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other powers and duties conferred or imposed by Act, law or custom ; and, subject to any repeal effected by, or other express provision of, this Act, all such other powers and duties may be exercised, and shall be performed, in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed.
(1) This section applies to any house, building or other premises being property belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or of the Duchy of Lancaster, or belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall, or belonging to a government department, or held in trust for Her Majesty for purposes of a government department.
(2) In relation to any such property, the appropriate authority may agree with—
(a) the council of the county, or
(b) the local authority of the district,
in which the property is situated that any relevant provision of this Act specified in the agreement shall apply to the property ; and, while the agreement is in force, that provision shall apply to that property accordingly, subject to the terms of the agreement.
(3) Any such agreement may contain such consequential and incidental provisions (including, with the approval of the Treasury, provisions of a financial character) as appear to the appropriate authority to be necessary or equitable.
(4) In this section, “the appropriate authority” means—
(a) in the case of property belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown, the Crown Estate Commissioners or other government department having the management of the property ;
(b) in the case of property belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chancellor of the Duchy ;
(c) in the case of property belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall, such person as the Duke of Cornwall, or the possessor for the time being of the Duchy of Cornwall, appoints ; and
(d) in the case of property belonging to a government department or held in trust for Her Majesty for purposes of a government department, that department ;
and, if any question arises as to what authority is the appropriate authority in relation to any property, that question shall be referred to the treasury, whose decision shall be final.
(5) In this section “premises” does not include any vessel—
(a) belonging to Her Majesty, or
(b) under the command or charge of an officer holding Her Majesty's commission.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“authorised officer”, in relation to a local authority, means—
(a) an officer of the authority authorised by them in writing, either generally or specially, to act in matters of a specified kind or in a specified matter, or
(b) by virtue of his appointment and for the purpose of matters within his province, a proper officer of the authority, appointed for purposes corresponding to any of those of the former medical officers of health, surveyors and sanitary inspectors;
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“district” means—
(a) in relation to a local authority in Greater London, a London borough, the City of London, the Inner Temple or the Middle Temple,
(b) in relation to a local authority in England for an area for which there is no district council, that area,
(c) in relation to a local authority in Wales, a county or county borough,
(d) in relation to the Council of the Isles of Scilly, those Isles;
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“functions” includes powers and duties;
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“local authority” has the meaning given by section 1(1) above;
“London port health authority” and “London port health district” have the meanings given by section 7 above;
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“officer” includes servant;
“owner” means the person for the time being receiving the rackrent of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the rackrent if those premises were let at a rackrent;
“port” has the meaning given by section 2(1) above;
“Port of London” has the meaning given by section 6 above;
“premises” includes any place and, in particular, includes—
(a) any vehicle, train, vessel or aircraft,
(b) any tent or movable structure, and
(c) any offshore installation (as defined in section 12(1) of the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971);
“proper officer” means, in relation to a purpose and to an authority, an officer appointer for that purpose by that authority;
“public authority” has the meaning given in section 6(3) of the Human Rights Act 1998;
“rackrent” in relation to any property means a rent which is not less than two–thirds of the rent at which the property might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free from all usual tenant’s rates and taxes, and deducting from it the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance and other expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the property in a state to command such a rent;
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“relevant health protection authority” means—
(a) a local authority, port health authority or joint board with functions under a relevant provision of this Act, and
(b) if regulations under Part 2A confer functions on a public authority of any other description and state that the authority is to be regarded as a relevant health protection authority with respect to those functions, that authority;
“relevant provision of this Act” means a provision of this Act (including a provision in regulations made under this Act) other than section 46;
“riparian authority” has the meaning given by section 2(2) above;
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“vessel” has the same meaning as “ship” in the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 except that it includes a hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft Act 1968, and “master” shall be construed accordingly.
In relation to the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, any reference in a provision of this Part of this Act to an officer or authorised officer of a local authority is a reference to an officer authorised by the Sub–Treasurer or the Under Treasurer, as the case may be, to act for the purposes of that provision.
Subject to section 77 above—
(a) the Acts specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, and
(b) the Acts specified in Schedule 3 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.
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(3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.
Section 77.
Port health districts and port health authorities
1 Any area and any body which immediately before the commencement of this Act was a port health district or a port health authority by virtue of section 5 of the Public Health Act 1936 (which related to former port sanitary districts and port sanitary authorities) shall continue to be known as and styled a port health district or a port health district or a port health authority, as the case may be ; and any reference in any Act or other document to port sanitary districts or port sanitary authorities shall be construed accordingly.
2 (1) No repeal contained in this Act shall affect the validity of any order made under section 2(2) of the Public Health Act 1936, or under section 41 of the London Government Act 1963, the validity of which was preserved by section 42(4) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (port health districts and port health authorities).
(2) Without prejudice to any power to vary any such order exercisable by virtue of the application to this Act of any provisions of the Interpretation Act 1978, any power to amend or vary any such order exercisable by virtue of section 42(4) of the said Act of 1982 shall continue to be exercisable notwithstanding any repeal contained in this Act.
Notifiable diseases
3 (1) Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of section 147 of the Public Health Act 1936 (which empowered local authorities to extend the category of notifiable diseases) any order made under that section which was in force immediately before the coming into operation of the repeal—
(a) shall continue to have effect notwithstanding the repeal of that section, and
(b) may be varied or revoked by an order made and approved in the like manner as the original order, except that it shall not be varied otherwise than by excluding a disease from it.
(2) Where such an order continues to have effect by virtue of sub–paragraph (1) above, any reference in the order which (being originally a reference to Part V of the Public Health Act 1936) was, by virtue of section 52(2) of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968, to be construed as a reference to section 48 of that Act shall be construed as a reference to section 11 of this Act.
Unlawful expenditure
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Amendment and repeal of Acts etc.
5 Any power that is exercisable by virtue of—
(a) section 317 of the Public Health Act 1936,
(b) section 82 of the Public Health Act 1961,
(c) section 84 of the London Government Act 1963, or
(d) section 48 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982,
in relation to a provision of one of those Acts that is repealed and re–enacted by this Act shall be exercisable in relation to that provision as so re–enacted to the extent to which it would have been exercisable immediately before such repeal.
6 Sections 252 and 254 of the Local Government Act 1972 (which enable Acts passed before 1st April 1974 and certain instruments to be amended or repealed) shall have effect in relation to this Act as if it had been passed before that date.
Section 78.
Public Health Act 1936
1 In section 6(1) of the Public Health Act 1936, after “ repealed,” there shall be inserted “ or of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 except section 46,”.
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3 In section 326(1) of that Act, after “ 1875,” there shall be inserted “ or any order under section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984,”.
4 In section 327(1) of that Act, after “ this Act” there shall be inserted “ or section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984”.
5 In section 343(1) of that Act, in the definition of “ joint board”, for the words “ and includes such a board acting as” there shall be substituted “ other than”.
Local Authority Social Services Act 1970
6 In Schedule 1 to the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970, there shall be inserted at the end—
Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 ( c.22)
Section 46(2) and (5) | Burial or cremation of person dying in accommodation provided under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948, and recovery of expenses from his estate.
National Health Service Act 1977
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Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980
8 There shall be inserted at the end of section 159(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980—
, and
(e) sections 39 to 42 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, and so much of Part VI of that Act as relates to those sections.
Section 78.
Chapter | Short title | Extent of repeal
1936 c. 49. | The Public Health Act 1936. | Section 2 to 5.
In section 9, in subsection (1), the words “ port health district, or a” , in subsection (2), the words “ the port health authority or” , and in subsection (3), the words “ port health district,”.
In section 10, the words “ port health authority or”.
Section 143(1) to (7) and (10).
Sections 147 to 170.
Section 179.
Sections 242 to 245.
Section 249(2).
Section 251.
Sections 253 to 256.
Section 258.
In section 267(4), the word “ V”.
In section 268, in subsection (1), the word “ V” , and in subsection (4) the words from “ for preventing” to “ thereof”.
in section 322(2), the words “ , port health authority”.
In section 324, in subsections (1) and (2), the words “ , port health authority”.
in section 325, the words “ , port health authority”.
In section 343(1), the definition of “ notifiable disease”.
1948 c. 29. | The National Assistance Act 1948. | Section 50.
1955 c. 16. | The Food and Drugs Act 1955. | Section 88(1).
1961 c. 64. | The Public Health Act 1961. | Section 1(2).
Sections 38 to 42.
1963 c. 33. | The London Government Act 1963. | Section 41.
In section 46(4), the words from “ and section 50” to “ dead),” and the words “ and 50(2)”.
In Schedule 11, in Part I, in paragraph 11, the words “ , section 41 of this Act”, and paragraphs 22 and 25 ; in Part II, paragraph 8.
1966 c. 42. | Local Government Act 1966. | In Schedule 5, paragraph 2.
1967 c. 80 | The Criminal Justice Act 1967. | In Part I of Schedule 3, the entries relating to sections 144(2), 148, 149, 152(4), 154(2), 159(3), 160(4) and 170(3) of the Public Health Act 1936 and the entry relating to section 39(2) of the Public Health Act 1961.
1968 c. 46. | The Health Services and Public Health Act 1968. | Sections 47 to 50.
Sections 52 to 58.
Section 70.
1970 c. 42. | Local Authority Social Services Act 1970. | In Schedule 1, the item relating to section 50(3) and (4) of the National Assistance Act 1948.
1972 c. 70 | The Local Government Act 1972. | Section 180(3)(i).
In Schedule 14, paragraphs 13 to 16, 38, 39, 46 and 47.
In Schedule 23, paragraph 2(12).
In Schedule 29, in paragraph 44(1), the words “ and 50(2)”.
1973 c. 38. | The Social Security Act 1973. | In Schedule 27, paragraph 7.
1974 c. 3. | The Slaughterhouses Act 1974. | In section 28, paragraph (a).
1974 c. 40. | The Control of Pollution Act 1974. | In Schedule 3, paragraphs 6 and 19.
1975 c. 18. | The Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975. | In Schedule 2, paragraph 5.
1975 c. 78. | The Airports Authority Act 1975. | Section 15(4).
1976 c. 57. | The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976. | In section 27(4), the words “ and port health authorities”.
1979 c. 2. | Customs and Excise Management Act 1979. | In Schedule 4, in paragraph 12, the item relating to the Public Health Act 1936.
1980 c. 53. | Health Services Act 1980. | In Schedule 1, paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 19(2) and (5).
1982 c. 16. | The Civil Aviation Act 1982. | Section 36(5) to (7) and (9).
1982 c. 30 | The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982. | Section 42.
In Schedule 6, paragraphs 1 to 3 and paragraph 6.
1983 c. 41. | The Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983. | In Schedule 9, paragraph 1.
Table of Derivations
Note: The following abbreviations are used in this Table:—
1875 = Public Health Act 1875 (c. 55).
1936 = Public Health Act 1936 (c. 49).
1946 c. 36 = Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (c. 36).
1946 c. 81 = National Health Service Act 1946 (c. 81).
1948 = National Assistance Act 1948 (c. 29).
S.I. 1949 = Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) (Substitution) Order 1949 (S.I. 1949/2393).
1955 c. 16 = Food and Drugs Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16).
1956 c. 52 = Clean Air Act 1956 (c. 52).
1956 c. 73 = Crown Estate Act 1956 (c. 73).
1961 = Public Health Act 1961 (c. 64).
1961 c. 55 = Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55).
1963 = London Government Act 1963 (c. 33)
1965 c. xxxix = City of London (Various Powers) Act 1965 (c. xxxix).
1966 c. 42 = Local Government Act 1966 (c. 42).
1967 c. 9 = General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9).
1967 c. 80 = Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80).
1968 = Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (c. 46).
1969 c. 19 = Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19).
1971 c. 23 = Courts Act 1971 (c. 23).
1972 = Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)
1973 c. 32 = National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32).
1973 c. 38 = Social Security Act 1973 (c. 38).
1974 c. 3 = Slaughterhouses Act 1974 (c. 3).
1974 c. 40 = Control of Pollution Act 1974 (c. 40).
1975 c. 18 = Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18).
1975 c. 37 = Nursing Homes Act 1975 (c. 37).
1975 c. 78 = Airports Authority Act 1975 (c. 78).
1976 c. 44 = Drought Act 1976 (c. 44)
1976 c. 57 = Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57).
1977 c. 45 = Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45)
1977 c. 49 = National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49).
1978 c. 30 = Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30).
1979 c. 2 = Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2).
1980 c. 53 = Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53).
1982 = Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30).
1982 c. 16 = Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16).
1982 c. 32 = Local Government Finance Act 1982 (c. 32).
1982 c. 48 = Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48).
1983 c. 41 = Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41).
Provision | Derivation
1(1), (2) | 1936 s. 1 ; 1961 s. 2(3) ; 1968 s. 57 ; 1972 s. 180, Sch. 14 para. 1.
(3) | 1936 s. 4(1).
(4) | 1936 ss. 1(1), 7(1), 1972 Sch. 14 para 1.
2(1) | 1936 s. 2(1); 1979 c. 2 Sch. 4 para. 12.
(2) | 1936 s. 2(1); 1963 s. 41(4); 1982 s. 42(3)(d).
(3), (4) | 1936 s. 2(2); 1946 c. 36 s. 1(2); 1963 s. 41(3)(b); 1982 s. 42(1).
(5) | 1936 s. 2(3).
(6), (7) | 1936 s. 2(4); S.I. 1949.
(8), (9) | 1936 s. 2(5)
3(1) | 1936 s. 3(1); 1982 s. 42(2), Sch. 6 para 1.
(2) | 1955 c. 16 s. 88(1); 1974 c. 3 s.28(a); 1976 c. 57 s. 27(4).
(3) | 1936 s. 3(2); 1972 s. 272(2).
4(1) | 1936 s. 9(1).
(2), (3) | 1936 s. 9(2); S.I. 1949.
(4) | 1936 s. 316; S.I. 1949; 1972 s. 272(1).
(5) | 1936 s. 9(3).
5(1) | 1936 s. 10.
(2), (3) | 1936 s. 309(1), (2); 1972 Sch. 14 para. 22.
(4) | 1936 s. 309(3); 1967 c. 9 s. 116(6).
6 | 1963 s. 89(1); 1965 c. xxxix s. 31.
7(1) | 1963 s. 41(1); 1982 s. 42(3)(a).
(2) | 1963 s. 41(1)(a); 1982 s. 42(3)(b).
(3) | 1963 s. 41(1)(b).
(4) | 1963 ss. 40(4), 41(1)(b); 1974 c. 40 Sch. 3 para. 19; 1975 c. 37 Sch. 1 para. 7, Sch. 3; 1976 c. 44 s. 5(8).
(5) | 1963 s. 41(1)(c); 1982 s. 42(3)(c).
(6) | 1963 s. 90.
8(1) | 1963 s. 41(3)(c).
(2) | 1963 s. 41(2), (3)(a).
9(1) | 1936 s. 267(1); 1946 c. 36 s. 1(2).
(2) | 1936 s. 267(4); 1956 c. 52 Sch. 4; 1982 Sch. 6 para. 4.
(3) | 1936 s. 267(3); 1982 Sch. 6 para. 4.
(4) | 1936 s. 267(5).
10 | 1936 s. 343(1); 1968 ss. 47, 57.
11(1) | 1968 s. 48(1); 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a).
(2) | 1968 s. 49.
(3) | 1968 s. 48(2); 1973 c. 32 Sch 4 para. 122; 1980 c. 53 Sch. 1 para. 19(2); 1982 Sch. 6 para. 6; 1983 c. 41 Sch. 10.
(4) | 1968 S. 48(4); 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
(5) | 1968 s. 48(5); 1978 c. 30 s. 17(2)(a).
12 | 1968 s. 50; 1983 c. 41 s. 26(1).
13(1) | 1936 s. 143(1).
(2) | 1936 s. 143(1); 1968 s. 56.
(3) | 1936 s. 143(2); 1982 c. 16 s. 36(7).
(4) | 1936 s. 143(3); 1973 c. 32 Sch. 4 para. 3, Sch. 5; 1980 c. 53 Sch. 1 para. 1; 1983 c. 41 Sch 9 para 1, Sch. 10.
(5) | 1936 s. 143(4); 1983 c. 41 Sch. 10.
(6) | 1936 ss. 143(7), 319; 1946 c. 36 ss. 1(2), 5(2).
(7) | 1936 s. 143(6); 1972 Sch. 29 para. 3(b).
14 | 1975 c. 78 s. 15(5); 1982 c. 16 s. 36(5), (6).
15 | 1936 ss. 143(5), 296; 1982 c. 48 ss. 39(2), 46.
16(1) | 1968 s. 52(1).
(2) | 1936 s. 147(1) proviso.
(3) | 1936 s. 147(2).
(4)–(6) | 1936 s. 147(3).
(7) | 1936 s. 147(4).
17 | 1936 ss. 148, 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt. I; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
18 | 1936 s. 296; 1961 s. 39; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt. I; 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a); 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
19 | 1936 ss. 149, 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt. I; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
20 | 1961 s. 41; 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a).
21 | 1936 ss. 150, 296; 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(>a); 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
22 | 1936 ss. 151, 296; 1969 c. 19 s. 10(1); 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a); 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
23 | 1936 s. 296; 1961 s. 40; 1972 Sch. 30; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
24 | 1936 ss. 152, 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 2 Pt. I; 1972 Sch. 14 para. 13; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
25 | 1936 ss. 155, 296; 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
26(1), (2) | 1936 ss. 156, 296; 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
(3) | 1963 Sch. 11 Pt. II para. 8.
27 | 1936 s. 166.
28(1)–(4) | 1936 ss. 153, 296; 1972 Sch. 14 para. 14; 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
(5) | 1946 s. 1(2).
29 | 1936 ss. 157, 296; 1972 Sch. 14 para. 13; 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
30 | 1936 ss. 158, 296; 1972 Sch. 14 para. 13; 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
31(1) | 1936 s. 167(1); 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a).
(2) | 1936 ss. 167, 293(1).
(3)–(5) | 1936 s. 167(3)–(5).
32 | 1936 s. 168; 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a).
33(1), (2) | 1936 s. 159(1), (2).
(3) | 1936 ss. 159(3), 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt. I; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
34(1), (2) | 1936 s. 160(1), (2).
(3) | 1936 s. 160(3); 1972 Sch. 14 para. 14; 1982 Sch 6 para. 3.
(4) | 1936 ss. 160(4), 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt I; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
(5) | 1936 s. 160(5).
35(1), (2) | 1961 s. 38; 1968 s. 53; 1972 Sch. 13 para. 38.
(3) | 1968 s. 55.
36 | 1968 ss. 54, 55; 1972 Sch. 14 para. 47.
37 | 1936 s. 169; 1946 c. 81 Sch. 10 Pt I; 1973 c. 32 Sch 4 para. 4, Sch. 5; 1977 c. 49 Sch. 14 para. 13(1); 1980 c. 53 Sch. 1 para. 2; 1982 Sch. 6 para. 2.
38(1), (2) | 1936 s. 170(1), (2) 1946 c. 81 Sch. 10 Pt. I.
(3) | 1936 ss 170(3), 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt. I; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
(4) | 1936 s. 170(4).
39(1) | 1936 s. 242; 1972 Sch. 14 para. 14.
(2) | 1936 ss. 246(a), 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt. I; 1969 c. 19 s. 10(1); 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
(3) | 1968 s. 70; 1973 c. 32 Sch. 4 para. 127; 1980 c. 53 Sch. 1 para. 19(5).
40 | 1936 s. 243; 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a).
41 | 1936 s. 244; 1946 c. 81 Sch. 10 Pt I; 1972 Sch. 14 para. 14; 1973 c. 32 Sch. 4 para. 6; 1977 c. 49 Sch. 14 para. 13; 1980 c. 53 Sch. 1 para. 3.
42(1) | 1936 s. 245; 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a).
(2) | 1936 ss. 246(a), 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt I; 1969 c. 19 s. 10(1); 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
43(1), (2) | 1936 s. 163(1), (2); 1972 Sch. 14 para. 13.
(3) | 1936 ss. 163(3), 296; 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
44 | 1936 ss. 164, 296; 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
45 | 1936 ss. 165, 296; 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
46(1) | 1948 s. 50(1), (2); 1963 . 46(4), Sch. 18 Pt. II; 1972 Sch. 29 para. 44(1), (3).
(2) | 1948 s. 50(3); 1972 Sch. 23 para. 2(12).
(3), (4) | 1948 s. 50(6).
(5) | 1948 s. 50(4); 1973 c. 38 Sch. 27 para. 7; 1975 c. 18 Sch. 2 para. 5.
(6) | 1948 s. 56(1).
(7) | 1948 s. 54.
(8) | 1948 ss. 63(2), 66.
47(1) | 1936 s. 161.
(2) | 1946 c. 36 s. 1(2).
48 | 1936 s. 162; 1972 Sch. 14 para 15.
49(1) | 1936 s. 251(1); 1966 c. 42 Sch. 6 Pt II.
(2) | 1936 ss. 251(2), 319; 1946 c. 36 ss. 1(2), 5(2).
(3) | 1936 ss. 253, 296; 1966 c. 42 Sch. 5 para. 2; 1969 c. 19 s. 10(1); 1977 c. 45 s. 31(5), (6), (9); 1982 c. 48 s. 46.
50 | 1936 s. 255; 1966 c. 42 Sch. 5 para. 2, Sch. 6 Pt. I.
51(1) | 1936 s. 254.
(2) | 1936 s. 249(2); 1966 c. 42 Sch. 6 Pt. I.
52 | 1936 s. 256; 1966 c. 42 Sch. 6 Pt I.
53 | 1936 s. 258.
54 | 1936 s. 179; 1972 Sch. 14 para. 16.
55(1) | 1936 s. 154(1).
(2) | 1961 s. 42.
(3) | 1936 ss. 154(2), 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt. I; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
56 | 1936 s. 268(1), (4), (5).
57(1)–(3) | 1936 s. 278(1)–(3).
(4) | 1936 s. 303.
58 | 1936 s. 283; 1946 c. 36 s. 1(2); 1963 Sch. 11 Pt 11 Pt. I para. 24(b).
59 | 1936 s. 284; 1963 Sch. 11 Pt. I para. 24(b); 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a).
60 | 1936 s. 285; 1963 Sch. 11 Pt.I para. 24(b); 1972 Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a).
61 | 1936 s. 287(1), (2); 1963 Sch. 11 Pt. I para. 24(b).
62 | 1936 ss. 287(3)–(6), 296; 1982 c. 48 ss. 38, 46.
63 | 1936 ss. 288, 296; 1967 c. 80 Sch. 3 Pt. I; 1982 c. 48 ss. 35, 38, 46.
64(1) | 1936 s. 298.
(2) | 1982 s. 12.
65 | 1936 s. 297.
66 | 1936 s. 299.
67(1) | 1936 s. 300(1).
(2), (3) | 1936 s. 301; 1971 c. 23 Sch. 9 Pt I.
68 | 1936 s. 304.
69 | 1875 s. 265; 1936 s. 305; 1982 c. 32 Sch. 5 para. 1.
70 | 1936 s. 318.
71(1), (2) | 1936 s. 322(2), (3); 1963 Sch. 11 Pt I para. 24(b); 1976 c. 57 s. 27(5), Sch. 2.
(3), (4) | 1936 s. 324.
(5), (6) | 1936 s. 325.
72 | 1936 s. 328.
73 | 1936 s. 341; 1956 c. 73 s. 1(1), (7); 1961 c. 55 s. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(1).
74 | 1936 ss. 1(2), 235, 343(1); 1961 s. 1(2); 1968 ss. 57, 62(1); 1972 ss. 180, 270(3), Sch. 14 para. 1, Sch. 29 para. 4(1)(a); 1973 c. 32 Sch. 4 para. 123.
75 | 1963 Sch. 11 Pt. I para. 24(b).
76 | 1936 s. 143(10); 1982 c. 16 s. 36(9).
77
78
79 | 1936 s. 347(2); 1948 s. 67(2); 1961 s. 3; 1963 s. 94, Sch. 18 Pt. II; 1968 ss. 58, 79(3).
Sch. 1
para. 1 | 1936 s. 5.
2 | 1982 s. 42(4).
3 | 1968 s. 52.
4 | 1982 c. 32 s. 34(2).
5
6
Sch. 2
Sch. 3