{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/64",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “the Minister” means the Secretary of State.\n(2) Any reference in this Act to a parish council shall include a reference to the council of a borough included in a rural district.\n(3) In this Act the expression “local authority”, except where the context otherwise requires, means the council of a borough or urban . . . district, the Common Council, the Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple or the Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple and includes the Council of the Isles of Scilly.\n(4) Any reference in this Act to the medical officer of health, or to a public health inspector, or to the surveyor, shall, in relation to premises in the district of a local authority, mean the medical officer of health, or a public health inspector, or the surveyor, of that local authority.\n(5) Any reference in this Act to any enactment shall be taken as a reference to that enactment as amended by or under any other Act, including this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (W.) S.I. 1965/319, arts. 2(1), 10(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1, (E.) 1970/1681, arts. 2(1), 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), Sch. 11 Pt. I para. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Definition of local authority in s. 2(3) excluded by Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37), s. 76(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "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."
}