Public Health Act 1936

13 Power of Minister to invest particular rural authority with urban powers.

(1) The Minister, on an application made to him in accordance with the provisions of this section, may by order—

(a) declare any provisions of this Act which are in force in boroughs and urban districts to be in force in any particular rural district, or in any particular contributory place in a rural district; and

(b) invest the council of the rural district, as respects the district or, as the case may be, as respects that particular contributory place, with all or any of the functions of an urban authority under this Act, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order as to the time, area or manner during, at or in which those functions are to be discharged.

(2) An application for the purposes of this section may be made by—

(a) the council of the rural district;

(b) the council of the county in which the district is situate;

(c) the parish council of any parish situate in the district; or

(d) any number of local government electors for the district or for any contributory place therein, not being less than one hundred or one-third of the total number of those electors, whichever is the less:

Provided that, where the application is made by the council of a parish or by local government electors for a contributory place, the order of the Minister shall not confer upon the rural district council any new power, except in relation to, or to a part of, that parish or, as the case may be, that contributory place.