
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Deregulation (Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998.
(2) This Order does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
2 
For section 94(8) of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907 (which disapplies the requirement to obtain a licence from the local authority in relation to pleasure boats and vessels on British Waterways Board canals) there shall be substituted—“
(8) No licence under this section shall be required in respect of pleasure boats and pleasure vessels on any inland waterway owned or managed by the British Waterways Board.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Robert Jones
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
25th March 1997