{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-294",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-294.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/294",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "294",
  "heading": "Limitation of liability of certain owners.",
  "text": "Where a council claim to recover any expenses under this Act from a person as being the owner of the premises in respect of which the expenses were incurred and that person proves that he—\n(a) is receiving the rent of those premises merely as agent or trustee for some other person; and\n(b) has not, and since the date of the service on him of a demand for payment has not had, in his hands on behalf of that other person sufficient money to discharge the whole demand of the authority,\nhis liability shall be limited to the total amount of the money which he has or has had in his hands as aforesaid, but a council who are, or would be, debarred by the foregoing provisions from recovering the whole of any such expenses from an agent or trustee may recover the whole or any unpaid balance thereof from the person on whose behalf the agent or trustee receives the rent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 294 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to apply s. 294 conferred by Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8, SIF 123:1), ss. 178(3)(c)(5), 209(3)(c)(5), 219(3)(c)(5) and by Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (c.9, SIF 123:1), ss. 42(3)(c)(5), 74(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 294 applied (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)S. 294 applied (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 11, ss. 62(1), 68(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 294 applied (with modifications) (17.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/1492, reg. 14(1).S. 294 applied (with modificatiions)(27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 12, ss. 30(3), 51(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 294 applied (with modifications) (1.3.2010) by The Infrastructure Planning (Miscellaneous Prescribed Provisions) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/105), regs. 1(1), 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 294 applied (with modifications) by SI 2010/675 Sch. 23 Pt. 4 para. 4(3)(b) (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": "C7",
      "text": "S. 294 applied (with modifications) (30.4.2012) by The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Wales) Regulations 2012 (No. 793), regs. 1, 15(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 294 applied (with modifications) (6.4.2015) by The Infrastructure Planning (Interested Parties and Miscellaneous Prescribed Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/462), regs. 1, 8(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 294 applied (with modifications) (1.1.2017) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154), reg. 1(1), Sch. 23 para. 8(3)(b) (with regs. 1(3), 77-79, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "S. 294 applied with modifications by S.I. 1987/349, reg. 11 and S.I. 1990/1519, reg. 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/294",
    "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."
}