{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-284",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-284.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/284",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "284",
  "heading": "Authentication of documents.",
  "text": "(1) Any notice, order, consent, demand or other document which a council are authorised or required by or under this Act to give, make or issue may be signed on behalf of the council—\n(a) by the clerk of the council;\n(b) by the surveyor, the medical officer of health, the sanitary inspector or the chief financial officer, of the council as respects documents relating to matters within their respective provinces;\n(c) by any officer of the council authorised by them in writing to sign documents of the particular kind or, as the case may be, the particular document.\n(2) Any document purporting to bear the signature of an officer expressed to hold an office by virtue of which he is under this section empowered to sign such a document, or expressed to be duly authorised by the council to sign such a document or the particular document, shall for the purposes of this Act, and of any byelaws building regulations and orders made thereunder, be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have been duly given, made or issued by authority of the council\nIn this subsection the expression “signature” includes a facsimile of a signature by whatever process reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Public Health Act 1961 (c. 64), Sch. 1 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "References to a specified officer of a local authority to be construed as reference to a proper officer of a local authority: Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 Pt. I para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 284 restored for specified purposes by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 69, Sch. 8 para. 1(3) (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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 284 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. 4S. 284 applied (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 11, ss. 62(1), 68(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/284",
    "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."
}