Sanitary law : a digest of the sanitary acts of England and Scotland / by H. Aubrey Husband.
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sanitary law : a digest of the sanitary acts of England and Scotland / by H. Aubrey Husband. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![Sec. have for water rates. They may also sujijily water gratuitously. Sec. 10 of the P.H.W.A. 1878, it would seem gives ten rateiiayers, or it may be hve, the power of prohibiting a L. A. from carrying out such arrange- ments. Expenses of providing water supply for a contributory place, are, by the P.H. 1875, sec. 229, made special expenses, which—sec. 230—are to be paid to the L.A. by the ovei’seers of the contributoiy ])lace, and such expenses may be recovered by means of water rates if the ratepayers so desire. The object of parliament being to enable persons rated to the relief of the ]ioor to insist on payment for water supplied being made by those who use it, as otherwise portions of a district might be wdthout a water supply but yet contribute to general rates, out of which the expenses of water sup[>lied to other jiortions of the district were defrayed. The watei' rates must not be such as to leave a profit in the hands of the L.A., and so enable them to diminish general rates at the expense of the consumers of water. This principle was enforced in the case of the Mayor of Worcester v. Droitwich 57 Assessment Committee. To enable any L.A. to supj)ly water, the following Acts are incoi'[)orated with the P.H. 1875 :—The Waterworks Clauses Act, 18G3, and the provisions as under of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, the effect of this incor])oration being to give a L.A. supplying water the benefit of such provisions of the general acts relating to the water com})anies as are applicable to these circumstances. The incorpoi-ated clauses are— {a) With respect (where the L.A. have not the control of the streets) to the breaking up of streets for the purpose of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21973684_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
