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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-act-1970/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-act-1970/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/44",
  "legislation_title": "Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chronically-sick-and-disabled-persons-act-1970",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Provision of sanitary conveniences at certain premises open to the public.",
  "text": "(1) Any person upon whom a notice is served with respect to any premises under section 89 of the Public Health Act 1936section 20 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (which empowers local authorities by notice to make requirements as to the provision and maintenance of sanitary conveniences for the use of persons frequenting certain premises . . . ) shall in complying with that notice make provision, in so far as it is in the circumstances both practicable and reasonable, for the needs of persons frequenting those premises who are disabled.\n(2) The owner of a building, who has been ordered under section 11(4) of the Building (Scotland) Act 1959 to make the building conform toon whom a building regulations compliance notice has been served under section 25(3) of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 8) requiring the owner to secure that the building complies with a provision of building standards regulations made under section 3section 1 of that Act requiring the provision of suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences therein, shall in complying with that ordernotice make provision, in so far as it is in the circumstances both practicable and reasonable, for the needs of persons frequenting that building who are disabled",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words commencing “section 20” substituted (E.W.) for words commencing “section 89” by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57, SIF 81:1), s. 20(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57, SIF 81:1), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(2) substituted (S.) (1.5.2005) by Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 8), s. 59(1), Sch. 6 para. 5(a) (with s. 53); S.S.I. 2004/404, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 6(2) repealed (S.) (1.5.2005) by Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 8), s. 59(1), Sch. 6 para. 5(b) (with s. 53); S.S.I. 2004/404, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(2) substituted (S.) (1.5.2005) by Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 8), s. 59(1), Sch. 6 para. 5(c) (with s. 53); S.S.I. 2004/404, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 6(2) substituted (S.) (1.5.2005) by Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 8), s. 59(1), Sch. 6 para. 5(d) (with s. 53); S.S.I. 2004/404, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1936 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1959 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6 extended (E.W.) by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 180"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1981/23",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "ukpga/1981/23",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981"
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      "affecting": "ukpga/1981/23",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/44/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:57.278779+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."
}