{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Provision of public conveniences in England .",
  "text": "( 1 ) A county council in England, a local authority in England or a parish ... council may, subject to subsection (2) of this section, provide sanitary conveniences in proper and convenient situations.\n(2) Any such council or authority shall not provide any such convenience in or under a highway or proposed highway for which they are not the highway authority without the consent of the highway authority.\n(3) Any such council or authority who provide any public sanitary conveniences, may—\n(a) make byelaws as to the conduct of persons using or entering them;\n(b) let them for such term, at such rent, and subject to such conditions as they think fit;\n(c) charge such fees for the use of any such conveniences ... as they think fit.\n(4) In this section the expression “sanitary conveniences” includes lavatories.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 87(1)(2) substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 para. 9(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 87(1) substituted (31.5.2018) by Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 (anaw 2), s. 126(2), Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(a); S.I. 2018/605, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 87(1) omitted (31.5.2018) by virtue of Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 (anaw 2), s. 126(2), Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(b); S.I. 2018/605, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 para. 9(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 87(3)(c) omitted (6.4.2008) by virtue of The Sex Discrimination (Amendment of Legislation) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/963), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 87 heading inserted (31.5.2018) by Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 (anaw 2), s. 126(2), Sch. 4 para. 1(3); S.I. 2018/605, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Minister of Transport under s. 87(1) in relation to Wales now exercisable by Secretary of State: S.I. 1965/319, art. 3, Sch. 2 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 87 modified by S.I. 1973/686, art. 3(1), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/87",
    "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."
}