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 GEo. 6.] A.D. 1937. sewer with which it communicates shall not be necessary =< for the purposes of this Act— (a) if, at some time during the period of one year immediately before the date on which the old drain or sewer was so closed, any trade effluent of the same nature or composition:as that of the trade effluent in question was lawfully discharged through the old drain or sewer into the public sewer or the cesspool, as the case may be, with which it communicated; and (b) if and so long as— (i) the quantity of the trade effluent which, on any one day, is discharged through the new drain or sewer into the public sewer with which it communicates does not exceed the maximum quantity of the trade effluent which, on any one day during the said period, was discharged through the old drain or sewer into the public sewer or the cesspool, as the case may be, with which it communi- cated, or (where, immediately before it was so closed, the old drain or sewer communicated with a cesspool) does not exceed such greater quantity, if any, as may be substituted for the said maximum quantity by agreement between the local authority and the owner or occupier of the trade premises or, in default of such agreement, by order of the Minister, and (ii) the rate at which the trade effluent is discharged through the new drain or sewer into the public sewer with which it communi- cates is not higher than the highest rate at which the trade effluent was, during the said period, discharged through the old drain or sewer into the public sewer or the cesspool, as the case may be, with which it communi- cated. (3) None of the restrictions imposed by the preceding sections of this Act shall apply in relation to any discharge of trade effluent to which, by virtue of subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section, the consent of the local authority is not necessary.