{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1925/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1925/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/71",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1925",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1925",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Public Health Acts 1875 to 1907, and the Baths and Washhouses Acts 1846 to 1899, in respect of matters for which provision is commonly made in local Acts and for other purposes relating to the public health.\n[7th August 1925]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended and amended (Greater London) by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), s. 40, Sch. 11 Pt. I paras. 1, 2; extended by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 Pt. II paras. 23, 24; amended by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 180"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to transfer certain functions conferred by Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22, SIF 100:1), s. 7(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1)(3), Sch. 7 para. 2(1)(i), Sch. 8 para. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act amended by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 190(1), Sch. 25 para. 1(2) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193, Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)Act amended (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)(i); S.I. 1996/218, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 7.9.1925, see s. 1(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/71/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:42:30.715118+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."
}