{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1875/section-251",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1875/section-251.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/55",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1875",
  "path": "section/251",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "251",
  "heading": "Summary proceedings for offences, penalties, &c.",
  "text": "All offences under this Act, and all penalties forfeitures costs and expenses under this Act directed to be recovered in a summary manner, or the recovery of which is not otherwise provided for, may be prosecuted and recovered in manner directed by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts before a court of summary jurisdiction. . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 251 repealed by Public Health Act 1936 (c. 49), s. 346, Sch. 3 Pt. I except so far as material for the purposes of any unrepealed enactment in this Act or any Act directed to be construed therewith"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 251 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X Group1."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 251 applied by S.I. 1986/567, art. 4 Table"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/55/section/251",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:19.800434+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."
}