Section 141: Power to deal with insanitary cisterns, &c.

Public Health Act 1936 · 1936 c. 49View on legislation.gov.uk

Public Health Act 1936
- Section 140: Power to close, or restrict use of water from, polluted source of supply.
- Section 142: Interpretation of Part IV.

*Part IV: *

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 Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

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