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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cleansing-of-persons-act-1897/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/60-61/31",
  "legislation_title": "Cleansing of Persons Act 1897",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cleansing-of-persons-act-1897",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application to Scotland.",
  "text": "In the application of this Act to Scotland, “local authority” means and includes any local authority under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897, and any Acts amending that Act; but the local authority shall not erect buildings for the purposes of section one hereof, except with the sanction of the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Scottish Board of Health Act 1919 (c. 20), s. 4(1)(a), Sch. 1 para. 1, Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 1(1)(4)(a) and Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1(1)(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1897 c. 38."
    }
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  },
  "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."
}