{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/64",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Construction.",
  "text": "(1) Part II of this Act except so much of it as relates to building regulations shall be construed as one with Part II of the Public Health Act 1936.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the provisions of the Public Health Act 1936, set out in the following table shall apply in relation to Part IV and Part VI of this Act as if the said Part IV and the said Part VI were contained in that Act.\nTABLE\nSection\nSubject Matter\n275\nPower of local authority to execute certain work on behalf of owners or occupiers.\n283\nForm of notices.\n284\nAuthentication of documents.\n285\nService of notices.\n288\nPenalty for obstructing execution of Act.\n304\nJudges’ and justices’ liability to rates.\n305\nProtection of members and officers of local authorities.\n341\nPower to apply provisions of Act to Crown property.\n343\nInterpretation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37), s. 76(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed by Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22, SIF 100:1), s. 78, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 1(3) repealed (1.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF:130), ss. 3(1), 4(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I (with Sch. 2 paras. 10, 14(1), 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1936 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1936 c. 49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/64/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:09:38.369297+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."
}