{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/alkali-c-works-regulation-act-1906/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/alkali-c-works-regulation-act-1906/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/6/14",
  "legislation_title": "Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/alkali-c-works-regulation-act-1906",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Complaint by sanitary authority in cases of nuisance.",
  "text": "(1) Where complaint is made to the central authority by any sanitary authority, on information given by any of their officers, or any ten inhabitants of their district, that any work to which this Act applies is carried on (either within or without the district) in contravention of this Act, . . . , and that a nuisance is occasioned thereby to any of the inhabitants of their district, the central authority shall make such inquiry into the matters complained of, and after the inquiry may direct such proceedings to be taken by the appropriate Agency, as they think fit and just.\n(2) The sanitary authority complaining shall, if so required by the central authority, pay the expense of any such inquiry.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Control of Pollution Act 1974 (c. 40), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 1(5) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/6/14/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:23:08.557733+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."
}