Public Health Act 1936

87 Provision of public conveniences.

(1) A local authority may provide public sanitary conveniences in proper and convenient situations :

Provided that they shall not without the consent of the county council, which may be given upon such terms as the council think fit, provide such conveniences in or under any highway, or on or under any land forming the site of a proposed new highway, if that highway or new highway is, or is intended to be, a highway with respect to which the county council are, or will be, the highway authority.

(2) A county council may themselves provide public sanitary conveniences in any situation in which such conveniences could not be provided by a local authority except with the consent of the county council.

(3) A county council or local authority who provide any public sanitary conveniences, may—

(a) make byelaws as to the conduct of persons using or entering them;

(b) let them for such term, at such rent, and subject to such conditions as they think fit;

(c) charge such fees for the use of any such conveniences, other than urinals, as they think fit.

(4) In this section the expression " sanitary conveniences " includes lavatories.