Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939

“Local authorities”.

3.—Each of the following persons and bodies shall be a local authority for the purposes of this Act, that is to say:—

(a) the council of a county, county borough, borough or urban district, and

(b) a board of health, and

(c) a port sanitary authority,

and the expression “local authority” when used in this Act without qualification shall be construed accordingly.