# Public Health Act 1961, Section 81: Summary recovery of damages for negligence.


Damages recoverable by a county council, local authority or parish council or parish meeting . . . for damage caused by negligence to any lamp, lamp-post, notice board, fence, rail, post, shelter or other apparatus or equipment provided by them in a street or public place shall, if the amount thereof does not exceed twenty pounds, be recoverable summarily as a civil debt.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/64/section/81 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1961/section-81
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