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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    Short title, citation, extent and commence- ment. [Cu. 40.] Public Health (Drainage [1 Epw. 8. & of Trade Premises) Act, 1937. 1 GEo. 6.] sewers or sewage disposal works for the use of two or more local authorities; “trade effluent ’’ means any liquid, either with or without particles of matter in suspension therein, which is wholly or in part produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at trade premises, and, in relation to any trade premises, means any such liquid as aforesaid which is so produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at those premises, but does not include domestic sewage ; “trade premises’? means any premises used or intended to be used for carrying on any trade or industry. (2) This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and, without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provision, section ninety of the principal Act (which relates to the interpretation of expressions used in Part II of that Act) shall apply for the purposes of this Act as that section applies for the purposes of Part II of the principal Act. 15.--(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act, 1937; and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Public Health Acts, 1936 and 1937. (2) This Act shall not extend to Scotland, Northern Ireland or the administrative county of London, and shall not extend to any area which, immediately before the passing of this Act, drained directly or indirectly into any sewer or sewage disposal works vested in the London County Council or in the council of a metro- politan borough, so long as that area continues to drain as aforesaid into any sewer or sewage disposal works so vested. (3) This Act shall, save as otherwise specially provided therein, come into operation on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight.