Port health authority

FOIA Schedule I includes:

16 - A port health authority constituted by an order under section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.

Section 2 provides, in part:

(2) In this Act, subject to section 8(2) below, “riparian authority”, in relation to a port of a port, means—

(a) any local authority whose district, or any part of whose district, forms part of, or abuts on, that port or part of a port, and

(b) any conservators, commissioners or other persons having authority in, over or within that port or part of a port.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may be order made by statutory instrument constitute a port health district ...

(4) An order under this section constituting a port health district may either—

(a) constitute one riparian authority the port health authority for the district, or

(b) constitute a joint board, consisting of representatives of two or more riparian authorities, to be the port health authority for the district.

(5) A joint board so constituted a port health authority shall be a body corporate by such name as may be determined by the order constituting the port health district:

So port health authorities constituted by section 2 come in three kinds: local authorities (which are subject to FOIA by other means), conservators/commissioners (which often aren't), and joint boards, which are newly-created bodies corporate.

Orders under this section:

• SI 1991/1773, amended by SI 1996/409, establishing Swansea Bay Port Health Authority as a joint board
• SI 1991/2913, amended by SI 1997/143, making Pembrokeshire County Council a PHA
• SI 2010/1214, making Bristol City Council a PHA
• SI 2010/1215, making Cornwall Council a PHA
• SI 2010/1216, making the Isle of Wight Council a PHA
• SI 2010/1217, making Portsmouth City Council a PHA
• SI 2010/1218, making Southampton City Council a PHA
• SI 2010/2676, establishing Tyne Port Health Authority as a joint board

The Common Council of the City of London is a port health authority by virtue of section 7 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984. In that capacity it's covered by paragraph 9 of FOIA Schedule I.

WhatDoTheyKnow tag: pha

Notes

The 1984 Act preserved a bunch of older PHAs. Presumably their establishment orders are to be treated as having been made under the 1984 Act.

SI 1974/215 and SI 1974/219 adjusted a bunch of orders to account for the 1974 local government reorganisation. The following joint boards survived:

• Barnstaple Port Health Authority
• River Blyth Port Health Authority
• Exeter Port Health Authority
• Falmouth and Truro Port Health Authority (eventually replaced by Cornwall Council above)
• Fowey Port Health Authority (eventually replaced by Cornwall Council above)
• Harwich Port Health Authority
• Hull and Goole Port Health Authority
• Manchester Port Health Authority
• New Shoreham Port Health Authority
• River Tees Port Health Authority
• Tyne Port Health Authority
• Weymouth Port Health Authority
• Workington Port Health Authority

• Beaumaris Port Health Authority (abolished by SI 1992/1558)
• Chester Port Health Authority (abolished by SI 1993/786)
• Milford Port Health Authority (eventually replaced by Pembrokeshire County Council above)
• Swansea Port Health Authority (replaced above)

The following became PHAs by those Orders:

• Gloucester City Council
• Liverpool City Council
• Plymouth City Council
• Poole Borough Council
• Preston City Council
• Southampton City Council (re-enacted above)

• Arfon District Council (successor?)
• Monmouth District Council (successor?)