{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-acts-amendment-act-1907/section-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-acts-amendment-act-1907/section-81.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/81",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Extending definition of public place and street for certain purposes.",
  "text": "Any place of public resort or recreation ground belonging to, or under the control of, the local authority, and any unfenced ground adjoining or abutting upon any street in a district shall for the purpose of the Vagrancy Act 1824 and of any Act for the time being in force altering or amending the same, be deemed to be an open and public place, and shall be deemed to be a street for the purposes of section twenty-nine of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, and also for the purposes of so much of section twenty-eight of that Act as relates to the following offences:—\nEvery person who suffers to be at large any unmuzzled ferocious dog, or urges any dog or other animal to attack, worry, or put in fear any person or animal:\nEvery person who rides or drives furiously any horse or carriage, or drives furiously any cattle:\n. . .\nEvery person who wilfully and indecently exposes his person:\nEvery person who publicly offers for sale or distribution, or exhibits to public view, any profane, indecent, or obscene book, paper, print, drawing, painting, or representation, or sings any profane or obscene song or ballad, or uses any profane or obscene language:\nEvery person who wantonly discharges any firearm or discharges any missile or makes any bonfire:\nEvery person who throws or lays any dirt, litter, ashes, or night soil, or any carrion, fish, offal, or rubbish, on any street.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 81 omitted (E.W.) (29.6.2026) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 81(4), 208(1) (with s. 81(8)); S.I. 2026/690, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Street Offences Act 1959 (c. 57), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed (E.W.) by Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 (c. 42, SIF 39:5), s. 1, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1847 c. 89."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 81 excluded (Greater London) by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 26"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/53/section/81",
    "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."
}