Clean Air Act 1956

PART II Public Health (London) Act, 1936

1 The local authorities for the purposes of the provisions of this Act shall, subject to the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, relating to the port health authority, be the sanitary authorities and not the county council;

Provided that—

(a) both the county council and the sanitary authorities shall be local authorities for the purposes of section twenty-five of this Act;

(b) if, in any special case, a sanitary authority so requests, the county council may enforce any of the provisions of this Act in lieu of the sanitary authority ;

(c) the duty of enforcing the provisions of this Act in relation to any such premises, not being premises within the Port of London, as are occupied by a sanitary authority, shall be performed by the county council;

and, for the purposes of performing their duties under this proviso, the county council may act as if they were the local authority and the county were their district.

2 Section three (which confers jurisdiction on sanitary authorities over ships within their districts) and the definition of " building " in subsection (1) of section three hundred and four shall not apply.

3 The sanitary authority, the county council and the port health authority may, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act enforceable by them respectively, of exercising any of their powers under this Act and of ascertaining whether there is or has been on, or in connection with, any premises any contravention of those provisions or whether any of their powers under this Act ought to be exercised, enter upon any premises by day or at any time during the night when business is being carried on thereon:

Provided that—

(a) in the case of a private dwelling, this paragraph shall have effect only in relation to work under subsection (2) of section twelve of this Act; and

(b) except in the case of a factory within the meaning of the Factories Act, 1937, or of any other premises in which persons are employed otherwise than in domestic service, admission to any premises shall not be demanded as of right unless twenty-four hours' notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier.

4 Paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedule shall apply in relation to vessels as it applies in relation to premises.