{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pests-act-1954/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pests-act-1954/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/68",
  "legislation_title": "Pests Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pests-act-1954",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Charges for inspection of ships.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a port health authority or, in Scotland, a local authority within the meaning of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1945, or a port local authority within the meaning of section one hundred and seventy-two of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, may impose such charges as appear to the authority to be appropriate for any inspection of a vessel made by an officer of the authority for the purposes of any Order in Council under section 23 of the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) by Local Government Act 1974 (c. 7, SIF 81:1), s. 42, Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.) by Local Government Act 1974 (c. 7, SIF 81:1), s. 35, Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1945 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1897 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6 extended by Hovercraft Act 1968 (c. 59), Sch. para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; the version following extends to Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/68/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:41.700502+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."
}