{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-76.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/64",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961",
  "path": "section/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Byelaws as to seaside pleasure boats.",
  "text": "(1) For the prevention of danger, obstruction or annoyance to persons bathing in the sea or using the seashore, a local authority may make byelaws—\n(a) regulating the speed of pleasure boats;\n(b) regulating the use of pleasure boats so as to prevent their navigation in a dangerous manner or without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other persons;\n(c) requiring the use of effectual silencers on pleasure boats propelled by internal combustion engines.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall be the confirming authority as respects byelaws made by a local authority in England under this section.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Any byelaw made under this section shall be of no effect if and in so far as it is inconsistent with any byelaw made by any dock undertakers or by any person authorised by any enactment or statutory order to construct or operate a pier.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 76(2) inserted (31.3.2015) by Local Government Byelaws (Wales) Act 2012 (anaw 2), s. 22(2), Sch. 2 para. 6(3); S.I. 2015/1025, art. 2(r) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 76(3) repealed with saving by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57), s. 17(5), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 76 extended by S.I. 1972/971 art. 4, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/64/section/76",
    "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."
}