The Sanitary Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict., c. 90) and the Sewage Utilization Acts of 1865 and 1867 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 75, and 30 & 31 Vict. c. 113) : with an introduction to and summary of the Sanitary Act, together with notes and indexes to each of the Acts / by J.B. Hutchins.

  • Hutchins, J. B. (James B.)
Date:
[1867]
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Credit: The Sanitary Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict., c. 90) and the Sewage Utilization Acts of 1865 and 1867 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 75, and 30 & 31 Vict. c. 113) : with an introduction to and summary of the Sanitary Act, together with notes and indexes to each of the Acts / by J.B. Hutchins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THE SEWAGE UTILIZATION ACT, 1865. ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO ET VICESIMO NONO VIGTOELE REGINJE. CAP. LXXY. An Act for facilitating the more useful Application of Sewage in Great Britain and Ireland. [29th June 1865.] Wheeeas it is expedient to remove difficulties under which Local Boards and other bodies having the care of sewers labour in disposing of the sewage of their districts so as not to be a nuisance, and to give fecility to such authorities to make arrangements for the application of such sewage to land for agricultural purposes: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same : 1. This Act, for all purposes, may be cited as The shortxuie. Sewage Utilization Act, ]865. 2. This Act shall not extend to any part of the Metropolis Application as defined by the Act of the Session eighteenth and nineteenth years of the present reign, chapter one hundred and twenty, for better Local Management of the Metropolis, [and shall not, with the exception of Clause fifteen, extend to any Parish as defined in the Schedule to this Act in a part of which Parish the Public Eealth Act, 1848, and the Local Government Act, 1858, or one of such Acts, is in force at the time of the passing of this Act.'\ * 3. The expression Sewer Authority t shall, in the Definition of several places in the Schedule annexed hereto in that behalf Sy^ mentioned, mean the persons or bodies of persons referred to in the first column of the Schedule annexed hereto; and the term District, in relation to a Sewer Authority, shall, ♦ Section 6 of 30 and 31 Vict., c. 113, repeals the part in italics and within brackets, and Section 7 enacts that in any parish in a portion of -which the Local Govemraont Act, 1858, is in force, the remaining portion is to become a special drainage district, imless petitioned against within three months of the passing of the Act of 1867. t See footnote * to Schedule. E