{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/64",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Closing of parks and pleasure-grounds.",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (1) of section forty-four of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890 (which empowers a local authority to close their parks and pleasure-grounds or to allow their use for a show or other special purposes), shall be amended as follows.\n(2) That subsection shall be in force throughout the district of every local authority, . . .\n(3) So much of the said subsection as restricts the power of closing parks or pleasure-grounds shall have effect as if for the reference to four consecutive days there were substituted a reference to six consecutive days (excluding Sunday) and in computing any such period of six consecutive days a Saturday and the following Monday shall be regarded as consecutive days.\n(4) The proviso to the said subsection (which prohibits the closing of a park or pleasure ground on a Sunday or public holiday) shall cease to apply to a public holiday, but on any bank holiday, or on Christmas Day or Good Friday, or on a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning, a local authority shall not have power under the subsection to close any park or pleasure-ground, or any part thereof, if the area so closed, together with any other area so closed, exceeds one-quarter of the total area of all the parks or pleasure-grounds provided by the local authority.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 53(5) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1890 c. 59."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 53 amended by S.I. 1966/1305, art. 5(1) and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 para. 42"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/64/section/53",
    "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."
}