{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-293",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-293.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/293",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "293",
  "heading": "Recovery of expenses, &c.",
  "text": "(1) Any sum which a council are entitled to recover under this Act, and with respect to the recovery of which provision is not made by any other section of this Act, may be recovered . . . as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 293(2) repealed by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 293 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. 293 applied (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 11, ss. 62(1), 68(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 293 extended (1.12.1991) by Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56), ss. 107(5), 109(3), 160(2), 223(2) (with ss. 82(3), 117(5), 186(1), 219(3), 222(1), Sch. 13 paras. 1, 2, Sch. 14 para. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 293 modified by 1995 c. x, s. 12(6C) (as inserted (13.7.2004) by London Local Authorities Act 2004 (c. i), ss. 1(1), 12(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 293 extended by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30, SIF 81:1), s. 29(12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/293",
    "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."
}