Section 31 Application of Public Health Act 1936, &c.C1

the smoke control area may be the whole of the districts of those authorities or any part thereof;

the references in section eleven of this Act and the first Schedule to this Act, and the first reference in subsection (1) of section twelve of this Act, to the local authority shall be construed as references to the local authorities acting jointly;

the reference in paragraph 2 of the said First Schedule to a place in the district of the local authority shall be construed as a reference to a place in each of the districts of the local authorities; but

save as aforesaid the references in this Act to the local authority shall, in relation to a building or dwelling, or to a boiler or industrial plant, in the smoke control area, be construed as references to that one of the local authorities within whose district the building, dwelling, boiler or plant is situated.

any reference in this Act to a local authority or its district includes, in relation to those functions, rights or liabilities, a reference to the port health authority or board or its district;

for the purposes of this Act, no part of the district of any such port health authority or board is to be treated, in relation to any matter falling within the competence of the authority or board, as forming part of the district of any other authority.

for the reference to Parts I and XII of the M3Public Health Act 1936, there shall be substituted a reference to the following provisions, that is to say, sections eighteen, one hundred and sixty-one, one hundred and sixty-four and one hundred and seventy-two of the M4Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897, sections F4two, twenty to twenty-two, one hundred and sixty-one, one hundred and sixty-eight to one hundred and seventy-one, and F5section 197121 to 123, 131, 312 to 315 and 330 of the M5Housing (Scotland) Act 19661987 and section fourteen of the M6Housing (Repairs and Rents) (Scotland) Act 1954section 336 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; and for the words “Part I of the Third Schedule” there shall be substituted the words “Part III of the Third Schedule”;

for references to the M7Public Health Act 1936, and to sections one hundred and one to one hundred and six of that Act there shall be substituted respectively references to the M8Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897, and to sections sixteen to twenty-seven of that Act in so far as they relate to the nuisances specified in paragraphs (9) and (10) of the said section sixteen; and

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