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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Civil Defence Act 1939 (c.31)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Civil Defence Act 1939

1939 CHAPTER 31 2_and_3_Geo_6

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Parts I—IV

    1. 1—35... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. Part V

    Public Utility Undertakings

    1. 36. Duty of public utility undertakers to make reports

    2. 37. Power to require measures to be taken

    3. 38.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. 39. Grants in respect of measures to secure due functioning of undertakings

    5. 40—42... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  3. Parts VI, VII

    1. 43—49... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 50—55... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  4. Part VIII

    Miscellaneous

    1. 56—61... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 62. Power of local authorities and public utility undertakers to appropriate lands and buildings for purposes of civil defence

    3. 63—73... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  5. Part IX

    Supplemental

    1. 74, 75... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 76. Rules as to form of reports

    3. 77. Penalty for false statements

    4. 78. Criminal liability of directors, officers, &c

    5. 79. Power of factory inspectors and local authorities to enter premises and penalty for obstruction

    6. 80. Service of documents

    7. 81, 82... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    8. 83. Financial provisions

    9. 84.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    10. 85—89... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    11. 90. Other provisions as to interpretation

    12. 91. Application to Scotland

    13. 92. Provisions as to Northern Ireland

    14. 93. Short title and citation

  6. FIRST SCHEDULE

  7. SECOND SCHEDULE

An Act to make further provision for civil defence and for purposes connected therewith.

[13th July 1939]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act modified (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 37, Sch. 5 para. 3 (with s. 106); S.I. 2001/869, art. 2

C2Power to amend or repeal provisions of Act conferred by Civil Defence Act 1948 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6 c. 5), s. 6(2)(c)(d)

C3Act extended by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16, SIF 9), s. 19(2), Sch. 2 para. 2; Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1)(3) Sch. 7 para. 2(4), Sch. 8 para. 33 and Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), ss. 112(1)(3), Sch. 16 para. 1(2), Sch. 17 para. 33

C4Act amended (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 25 para. 1(4), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58

C5Act amended (E.W.S.) (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(5); S.I. 1996/218, art. 3

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent.

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