{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Care of sanitary conveniences used in common.",
  "text": "Where a sanitary convenience is used in common by the members of two or more families, the following provisions shall have effect:—\n(a) if any person injures or improperly fouls the convenience, or anything used in connection therewith, or wilfully or by negligence causes an obstruction in the drain therefrom, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale;\n(b) if the convenience, or the approach thereto, is, for want of proper cleansing or attention, in such a condition as to be insanitary, such of the persons having the use thereof in common as are in default, or, in the absence of satisfactory proof as to which of them is in default, each of them, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale, and to a further fine not exceeding £2 for each day on which the offence continues after conviction therefor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 51-52 modified (7.8.1991) by S.I. 1991/1773, art. 8, Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 51-52 modified (10.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2913, art. 8, Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 52 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Bristol Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1214), arts. 1, 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 52 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Cowes Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1216), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 52 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Southampton Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1218), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 52 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Portsmouth Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1217), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 52 modified (E.) (6.4.2010) by The Cornwall Port Health Authority Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1215), arts. 1(1), 4, Sch. (with art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Ss. 51 52 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": "C9",
      "text": "S. 52: 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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/52",
    "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."
}