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 Gxo. 6.] of Trade Premises) Act, 1937. consent either unconditionally or subject to such con- ditions as the local authority think fit to impose with respect to— (a) the sewer or sewers into which any trade effluent may be discharged in pursuance of the trade effluent notice, (6) the nature or composition of the trade effluent which may be so discharged, (c) the maximum quantity of any trade effluent which may be so discharged on any one day, either generally or into a particular sewer, (d) the highest rate at which any trade effluent may ‘be discharged in pursuance of the trade effluent notice, either generally or into a particular sewer, and (e) any other matter with respect to which byelaws may be made under this Act; but any such condition as aforesaid shall be of no effect if and so far as it is inconsistent with any byelaws. so made which are for the time being in force. (4) A local authority, on receiving a trade effluent notice duly served on them, shall forthwith send a copy of the notice to any interested body, and the local autho- rity shall not have power to take any further action under the preceding provisions of this section in relation to the notice, without the approval of the body or bodies (if any) to whom the local authority are required by this subsection to send a copy of the notice. (5) If, in the case of any trade premises— (a) any trade effluent is discharged in contraven- tion of this section, or without such consent (if any) as is necessary for the purposes of this Act, or (6b) any direction or condition given or imposed under this section is contravened, the occupier of the premises shall be guilty of an offence. 3.—(1) Any person aggrieved by a direction of a local authority given under the last preceding section in relation to a trade effluent notice, or by the refusal of a local authority to give a consent for which application has been duly made to them by means of such a notice, or by the failure of a local authority to give such a 3 A.D. 1937. Appeals to the Minister.