{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-141",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-141.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/141",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "141",
  "heading": "Power to deal with insanitary cisterns, &c.",
  "text": "Any well, tank, cistern, or water-butt used for the supply of water for domestic purposes which is so placed, constructed or kept as to render the water therein liable to contamination prejudicial to health, shall be a statutory nuisance for the purposes of Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 162(1), Sch. 15 para. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 140-141 modified (7.8.1991) by S.I. 1991/1773, art. 8, Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 140-141 modified (10.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2913, art. 8, Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 141 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Cornwall Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1215), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch. (with art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 141 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Southampton Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1218), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 141 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Portsmouth Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1217), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 141 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Bristol Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1214), arts. 1, 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 141 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Cowes Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1216), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Ss. 140, 141 modified (24.3.2011) by The Hull and Goole Port Health Authority Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/939), arts. 1(1), 9, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 141 modified by SI 2010/675 Sch. 23 Pt. 8 para. 3 Table 9 (as substituted (1.10.2011) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2043), reg. 1(b), Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "S. 141 modified (1.1.2017) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154), reg. 1(1), Sch. 23 paras. 1(3), 2 Table 9 (with regs. 1(3), 77-79, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "S. 141 functions transferred and modified (E.) (31.3.2017) by The Weymouth Port Health Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/558), arts. 1(1), 9, Sch. 2 (with art. 9(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "S. 141: functions etc. assigned to the Port Health Authority (7.11.2024) by The London Port Health Authority Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1161), arts. 1(1), 4(2), Sch. (with arts. 4(3), 5(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C13",
      "text": "S. 141 amended by Radioactive Substances Act 1960 (c. 34), s. 9, Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 3S. 141 amended (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 12, ss. 40, 51(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/141",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:55.147062+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."
}