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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    1 Gro. 6.] — of Trade Premises) Act, 1937. such offence, be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds and to a further fine not exceeding forty shillings for every day on which the offence continues after conviction therefor. (4) This section shall have effect as from the passing of this Act. 10.—(1) Any officer of a local authority, on any occasion on which, for the purposes of this Act, he exercises in relation to|any premises the powers conferred on him by section two hundred and eighty-seven of the principal Act (which authorises officers of local authorities to enter premises), may obtain and take away a sample of any trade effluent which is passing from those premises into a public sewer of the local authority. (2) The result of any analysis of a sample taken by an officer by virtue of this section shall not be admissible as evidence in any legal proceedings under this Act, unless the following requirements have been complied with, that is to say, the officer shall, forthwith after taking the sample, notify to the occupier of the trade premises the officer's intention to have it analysed and shall there and then divide the sample into three parts, shall cause each part to be placed in a suitable container which shall be sealed up and marked, and shall-— (a) deliver one part to the occupier of the trade premises, (6) retain one part for future comparison, and (c) if he thinks fit to have an analysis made, submit one part to the analyst. 11. Every person who is guilty of an offence under this Act, not being an offence for which a penalty is specially provided by this Act, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and to a further fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every day on which the offence continues after conviction therefor. 12.—(1) The Minister, upon application made to him by any sewerage authority or by the owner or occupier of trade premises within the district of that sewerage authority, may by order make such amendments or adaptations of any local Act relating to the sewerage authority as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose 13 WD. E937. Power to take samples of trade effluents. Penalties. Adaptation of local Acts.