{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-283",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-283.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/283",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "283",
  "heading": "Notices to be in writing; forms of notices, &c.",
  "text": "(1) All notices, orders, consents, demands and other documents authorised or required by or under this Act to be given, made or issued by a council, and all notices and applications authorised or required by or under this Act to be given or made to, or to any officer of, a council shall be in writing.\n(2) The Minister may by regulations prescribe the form of any notice, advertisement, certificate or other document to be used for any of the purposes of this Act and, if forms are so prescribed, those forms or forms to the like effect may be used in all cases to which those forms are applicable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 283 extended by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30, SIF 81:1), s. 33(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "s. 283 amended by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 69, Sch. 8 para. 1(2)(b) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 13(2)(3), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)S. 283 applied (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 11, ss. 62(1), 68(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 283(1) extended by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57), s. 78S. 283(1) applied (with modifications) (20.9.2000) by 2000 c. vii, ss. 1(1), 19(9)-(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 283(1) applied (with modifications) (13.7.2004) by London Local Authorities Act 2004 (c. i), ss. 1(1), 9, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 283(1) applied (with modifications) (19.9.2007) by London Local Authorities Act 2007 (c. ii), s. 1(3), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 283(1) modified (21.9.2008) by London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2008 (c. iii), ss. 1(2), 11(4), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 283(1) applied (with modifications) (2.7.2009) by Broads Authority Act 2009 (c. i), s. 39(5), Sch. 5 (with ss. 2(3), 16(3), 41(4), 42, Sch. 6 Pts. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 283 extended by Thermal Insulation (Industrial Buildings) Act 1957 (c. 40), s. 8(1) which 1957 Act was repealed (E.W.) by S.I. 1985/1936, reg. 3(2), Sch. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/283",
    "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."
}