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. (4) Any power under this section to make an order shall be construed as including a power, exerciseable in the like manner and subject to the like conditions, to vary or revoke the order. (5) This section shall have effect as from the passing of this Act. 13. Nothing in this Act shall affect any right with respect to water in a river, stream or watercourse, or authorise any infringement of such a right. 14.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say :— ‘* district ’’ means, in relation to a local authority, the area over which that authority have juris- diction ; ‘harbour’ and “ tidal water’’ have the meanings respectively assigned to those expressions by section seven hundred and forty-two of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894; ‘interested body ’” means— (a) where the local authority’s sewer into which the trade effluent is, or is to be, received discharges into any sewer or sewage dis- posal works of a joint sewerage authority or of another sewerage authority, that joint sewerage or other sewerage authority, or (6) where the local authority’s said sewer has an outfall into any harbour or tidal water, or is connected directly or indirectly with any sewer or sewage disposal works having such an outfall, the harbour authority or conservancy authority having jurisdiction in respect of that harbour or tidal water ; and for the purposes of this definition “‘ harbour authority ’’ and “ conservancy authority ”’ have the meanings respectively assigned to those expressions by section seven hundred and forty- two of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894; ‘joint sewerage authority’ means any board, council, committee or other body authorised under or by virtue of any enactment to maintain B 15 A D. 1937 Saving of rights in respect of water. Interpreta- tion. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.