{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-84.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/84",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Cleansing or destruction of filthy or verminous articles.",
  "text": "Where it appears to a local authority upon a certificate of the proper officer of the authority that any article in any premises—\n(a) is in so filthy a condition as to render its cleansing, purification or destruction necessary in order to prevent injury, or danger of injury, to the health of any person in the premises; or\n(b) is verminous, or by reason of its having been used by, or having been in contact with, any verminous person is likely to be verminous,\nthe local authority shall cause that article to be cleansed, purified, disinfected or destroyed, as the case may require, at their expense and, if necessary for that purpose, to be removed from the premises.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 Pt. I para. 4(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 83-86 modified (7.8.1991) by S.I. 1991/1773, art. 8, Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 83-86 modified (10.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2913, art. 8, Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 83-86 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": "Ss. 83-86 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": "Ss. 83-86 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": "C6",
      "text": "Ss. 83-86 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": "C7",
      "text": "Ss. 83-86 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. 83-86 modified (E.) (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": "Ss. 83-86 functions transferred and modified (E.) (14.6.2016) by The River Tees Port Health Authority Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/644), arts. 1(1), 9, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Ss. 83-86 functions transferred and modified (E.) (31.3.2017) by The Weymouth Port Health Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/558), arts. 1(1), 9, Sch. 2 (with art. 9(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Ss. 83-86: 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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "Power to apply conferred by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 68(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/84",
    "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."
}