{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-acts-amendment-act-1907/section-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-acts-amendment-act-1907/section-77.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/53",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-acts-amendment-act-1907",
  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Power to appoint officers.",
  "text": "The local authority may appoint officers for securing the observance of this Part of this Act, and of the regulations and byelaws made thereunder, and may procure such officers to be sworn in as constables for that purpose, but any such officer shall not act as a constable unless in uniform or provided with a warrant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 77 extended by Public Health Act 1961 (c. 64), s. 52; and excluded by Countryside Act 1968 (c. 41), s. 7(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/53/section/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:48.648661+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."
}