{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-260",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-260.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/260",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "260",
  "heading": "Power of parish council, or local authority, to deal with ponds, ditches, &c.",
  "text": "(1) A parish council may—\n(a) deal with any pond, pool, ditch, gutter or place containing, or used for the collection of, any drainage, filth, stagnant water, or matter likely to be prejudical to health, by draining, cleansing or covering it, or otherwise preventing it from being prejudicial to health, but so as not to interfere with any private right, or with any public drainage, sewerage or sewage disposal works;\n(b) execute any works, including works of maintenance or improvement, incidental to or consequential on any exercise of the foregoing power;\n(c) contribute towards the expenses incurred by any other person in doing anything mentioned in this subsection.\n(2) Without prejudice to their right to take action in respect of any statutory nuisance, a local authority may exercise any powers which a parish council may exercise under this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 260 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": "C2",
      "text": "S. 260: functions transferred and modified (14.6.2016) by The River Tees Port Health Authority Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/644), arts. 1(1), 9, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 260: 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": "C4",
      "text": "S. 260 restricted by S.I. 1965/654, art. 3(10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/260",
    "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."
}