SCHEDULE 2Functions etc. of authorities assigned to the Port Health Authority

Article 9

Public Health Act 193613

Section 1(1) (insofar as it relates to sections 45, 49-52, 83 and 264)

Duty to enforce the Act

Section 45

Buildings with defective closets capable of repair

Section 48

Power to examine and test drains etc.

Section 49

Rooms over closets of certain types etc.

Section 50

Overflowing and leaking cesspools

Section 81

Byelaws for the prevention of certain nuisances

Section 82

Byelaws as to removal through streets of offensive matter or liquid

Sections 83 to 86

Filthy or verminous premises or articles, verminous persons and provision of cleansing stations

Section 140

Power to close, or restrict use of water from, polluted water supply

Sections 260, 264-265

Provisions relating to watercourses, ponds, ditches and culverts

Section 268(4)

Byelaws relating to nuisances arising from tents, vans, sheds, etc.

Part 12

Miscellaneous provisions (including powers of entry)

Public Health Act 196114

Section 36

Power to require vacation of premises during fumigation

Section 73

Derelict petrol tanks

Slaughterhouses Act 197415

Part 1

Slaughterhouses and knackers’ yards

Control of Pollution Act 197416

Part 3

Noise

Part 5

Supplementary provisions (including powers of entry and inspection, obtaining information and default powers)

Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 197617

Section 16

Power of local authorities to obtain particulars of persons interested in land

Section 32

Power of local authorities to execute works outside their areas

Section 41

Evidence of resolutions and minutes of proceedings etc.

Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 198418

Section 45M and all functions conferred under the Health Protection (Part 2A Orders) Regulations 201019

Local authority power to apply to a justice of the peace for an order to protect human health from risk of infection or contamination

Section 46

Duty to arrange for a body to be buried or cremated

Section 48

Removal of body to mortuary or for immediate burial

Building Act 198420

Section 76

Powers to deal with defective premises

Food Safety Act 199021

Food authority enforcement functions relating to food safety

Water Industry Act 199122

Part 3

Water supply

Clean Air Act 199323

Air pollution

Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 199324

Noise pollution (street noise)

The Private Water Supplies Regulations 200925

Private water supplies

The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 200926

Execution and enforcement of import controls. Designation of competent authority.

The Health Protection (Local Authority Powers) Regulations 201027

Health protection powers

The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 201028

Arrangements and enforcement to prevent, control and eradicate transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

The Plastic Kitchenware (Conditions on Imports from China) (England) Regulations 201129

Execution and enforcement of conditions and procedures for the import of polyamide and melamine plastic kitchenware from China and Hong Kong.

The Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (England) Regulations 201330

Enforcement