{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973/section-136",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973/section-136.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/65",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973",
  "path": "section/136",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "136",
  "heading": "Deposit of poisonous waste.",
  "text": "(1) The local authority for the purposes of the Deposit of Poisonous Waste Act 1972 shall be an islands council or a district council; and accordingly in section 5(1)(b) of that Act for the words “county councils and town” there shall be substituted the words “ islands councils and district ”.\n(2) In section 3(5), 4(3) and 5(3) of that Act for any reference to a river purification board there shall be substituted a reference to a river purification authority.\n(3) In section 7 of that Act after the definition of “refuse tip” there shall be inserted the following definition “ “river purification authority” has the same meaning as in section 17 of the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951, but shall not include an islands council. ”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 136 repealed (prosp.) by Control of Pollution Act 1974 (c. 40), s. 109(2), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1974/40",
      "affecting_title": "Control of Pollution Act 1974"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/65/section/136",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:26.996319+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."
}