Public Health Act 1936

141 Power to deal with insanitary cisterns, &c. E+W

Any well, tank, cistern, or water-butt used for the supply of water for domestic purposes which is so placed, constructed or kept as to render the water therein liable to contamination prejudicial to health, shall be a statutory nuisance for the purposes of [F1Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990].

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2Ss. 140-141 modified (7.8.1991) by S.I. 1991/1773, art. 8, Sch.2.

C3Ss. 140-141 modified (10.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2913, art. 8, Sch.2.

C10S. 141 modified by SI 2010/675 Sch. 23 Pt. 8 para. 3 Table 9 (as substituted (1.10.2011) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2043), reg. 1(b), Sch. 1)

C12S. 141 functions transferred and modified (E.) (31.3.2017) by The Weymouth Port Health Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/558), arts. 1(1), 9, Sch. 2 (with art. 9(3))