{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1875/section-258",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1875/section-258.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/38-39/55",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1875",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1875",
  "path": "section/258",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "258",
  "heading": "Justices may act though members of local authority or liable to contribute.",
  "text": "No justice of the peace shall be deemed incapable of acting in cases arising under this Act . . . by reason of his being as one of several ratepayers, or as one of any other class of persons liable in common with the others to contribute to, or to be benefited by any rate or fund, out of which any expenses incurred by such authority are under this Act to be defrayed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 258 repealed by Public Health Act 1936 (c. 49), s. 346, Sch. 3 Pt.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      "text": "Words repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (c. 101), Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/38-39/55/section/258",
    "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."
}