Public Health Act 1936

89 Power to require sanitary conveniences to be provided at inns, refreshment houses, and &c.

(1) A local authority may by notice require the owner or occupier of any inn, public-house, beerhouse, refreshment-house or place of public entertainment to provide and maintain in a suitable position such number of sanitary conveniences for the use of persons frequenting the premises as may be reasonable.

(2) If any person fails to comply with a notice served upon him under this section, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds and to a further fine not exceeding forty shillings for each day on which the offence continues after conviction therefor:

Provided that in any proceedings under this subsection it shall be open to the defendant to question the reasonableness of the authority's requirements, or of their decision to address their notice to him and not to the occupier or, as the case may be, the owner of the premises.