Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act, 1937 : 1 Edw. 8. & 1. Geo. 6. Ch. 40.

  • Great Britain
Date:
1937]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act, 1937 : 1 Edw. 8. & 1. Geo. 6. Ch. 40. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | of Trade Premises) Act, 1937. 1 Guo. 6.] A.D. 1937. likely to come into contact while passing through -_— any sewers,— (i) injure or obstruct those sewers, or make specially difficult or expensive the treatment or disposal of the sewage from those sewers, or (ii) (where the trade effluent is ‘to be, or is, discharged into a sewer having an outfall into any harbour or tidal water or into a sewer which connects directly or indirectly with a sewer or sewage disposal works having such an outfall) cause or tend to cause injury or obstruction to the navigation on, or the use of, the said harbour or tidal water ; (d) for determining the maximum quantity of the trade effluent which may, without the consent of the local authority, be discharged from any trade premises into the sewer on any one day, and the highest rate at which the trade effluent may, without such consent, be discharged from any trade premises into the sewer; (e) for regulating the temperature of the trade effluent at the time when it is discharged into the sewer, and for securing so far as reasonably practicable that the trade effluent, when so discharged, shall be neutral, that is to say, neither acid nor alkaline; (f) for requiring the several occupiers of trade premises from which the trade effluent is dis- charged into the sewer to pay to the local authority such charge for the reception of the trade effluent into the sewer, and for the disposal thereof, as may be specified in the byelaws, regard being had to the composition and volume of the trade effluent so discharged, and to any additional expense incurred or likely to be incurred by a sewerage authority in connection with the reception or disposal of the trade effluent ; (g) for the provision and maintenance of such an inspection chamber or manhole as will enable a person readily to take at any time samples of what is passing into the sewer from the premises ; 8