(1)An order constituting a port health district—
(a)shall confer on the port health authority jurisdiction over all waters within the area to which the order relates, and also over the whole of the district of any such riparian authority as may be specified in the order, or such part of any such district as may be so specified; and
(b)may assign to the port health authority any of the functions, rights and liabilities of a local authority under any enactment contained in this Act, or any unrepealed enactment contained in the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1932.
(2)Section two hundred and ninety-three of the Local Government Act, 1933, which enables any of the provisions of that Act to be applied to a joint board of which the constituent members are local authorities, shall apply also in relation to any port health authority, notwithstanding that that authority may be a single local authority, or may be a joint board of which all the constituent members are not local authorities :
Provided that, where the port health authority are the council of a borough, the provisions of the said Act relating to the audit of accounts by district auditors shall not be so applied, unless all the accounts of the council are subject to such audit.
(3)The provisions of sections one hundred and eight to one hundred and ten of the Local Government Act, 1933, as adapted and set out in the First Schedule to this Act, shall have effect with respect to the medical officer of health and sanitary inspector of a port health district.