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) The consent of a local authority to the discharge, from any premises into a sewer of the local authority, of articles on those premises shall not be necessary for the purposes of this Act. (5) Any dispute arising under this Act as to the nature or composition of any trade effluent discharged from any trade premises into a sewer of a local authority during such a period as is mentioned in subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section, or as to the quantity of trade effluent so discharged on any one day during such a period, or as to the rate at which trade effluent was so discharged during such a period, shall, unless the parties otherwise agree, be referred to the Minister for determination; and upon any such reference the Minister may make such order in the matter as he thinks just, and the order shall be final : Provided that at any stage of the proceedings on such a reference the Minister may, and, if so directed by the High Court, shall, state in the form of a special case for the opinion of the High Court any question of law arising in those proceedings. 5.—(1) A local authority may, and, if required by the Minister, shall, make byelaws (hereafter in this Act referred to as “trade effluents byelaws’’) with respect to the discharge of any trade effluent, or trade effluent of any particular nature or composition, from trade premises into any public sewer of the local authority, and such byelaws may provide for all or any of the following matters, that is to say :— (a) for determining the period or periods of the day during which the trade effluent may be dis- charged from any trade premises into the sewer ; (b) for requiring the exclusion from the trade effluent of all condensing water ; (c) for requiring that, before the trade effluent enters the sewer, there shall be eliminated from the effluent any such constituent thereof as may be specified in the byelaws, being a constituent as to which the authority making the byelaws is satisfied that it would, either alone or in combination with any matter with which it is a A.D. 1937. ——aes Byelaws of local authorities.