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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (c.47)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968

1968 CHAPTER 47

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    General Provisions as to Sewerage

    1. Duties and powers of local authorities

      1. 1. Duty of local authority to provide for sewerage of their area

      2. 2. Maintenance of public sewers and other works

      3. 3. Construction etc. of public sewers and public sewage treatment works

      4. 3A. Authorisation of construction of certain private sewers etc

      5. 4. Power of local authority to close or alter public sewers etc

      6. 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      7. 6. Functions outwith the area of a local authority

      8. 7. Agreements between highway and local authorities

      9. 8. Agreements as to provision of sewers etc. for new premises

      10. 9. Loan of temporary sanitary conveniences

      11. 10. Emptying of septic tanks

      12. 11. Duty of local authority to keep map showing public sewers etc

    2. Rights and duties of owners and occupiers

      1. 12. Rights of owners and occupiers to connect with and drain into public sewers etc

      2. 13. Rights of owners and occupiers to connect with and drain into sewers etc. of another local authority

      3. 14. Direction by local authority as to manner of construction of works

      4. 15. Owner or occupier to remedy defects in drains and other works

    3. Vesting of sewers, drains and works

      1. 16. Vesting of sewers and other works in local authority

      2. 16A. Vesting of certain private sewers

      3. 17. Local authority may take over private sewage treatment works

    4. Miscellaneous

      1. 18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 19.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 20. Compensation for loss etc. resulting from exercise of powers under this Part of this Act

      4. 21. Buildings not to interfere with sewers

      5. 22. Protection for statutory undertakers

      6. 23. Restriction on working minerals

  2. Part II

    Trade Effluents

    1. Right to discharge into public sewers

      1. 24. Right to discharge into public sewers

    2. Control of new discharges

      1. 25. Meaning of new discharge

      2. 26. New discharge only with consent of the authority

      3. 27. Procedure on application for consent to new discharge

      4. 28. Time to dispose of application

      5. 29. Decision on application

      6. 30. Intimation of decision

      7. 31. Appeal against refusals and conditions

      8. 32. Review of consents, conditions and refusals

    3. Control of existing discharges

      1. 33. Meaning of existing discharge

      2. 34. Right to continue existing discharge

      3. 35. Furnishing of information

      4. 36. Review of continuation of existing discharge

    4. Agreements in lieu of applications for consent

      1. 37. Agreements as respects trade premises

      2. 37A.Register for purposes of Part II.

      3. 37B.Exclusion from register of information affecting national security.

      4. 37C. Exclusion from register of commercially confidential information

    5. Supplementary

      1. 38. Power to extend Part II to other effluents

  3. Part III

    Miscellaneous and General

    1. 39. Local authority to have right to sewage

    2. 40.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 41. Breaking open of streets, etc

    4. 42. Execution of works by local authorities for other persons

    5. 43. Power to require occupier to permit works to be executed by owner

    6. 44. Power of local authorities to require information as to ownership etc. of premises

    7. 45. Production of plans and furnishing of information to authorities

    8. 46. Certain matter not to be passed into drains

    9. 47.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    10. 48. Powers of entry

    11. 49.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    12. 50. Restriction on disclosure of information

    13. 51. Procedure on appeals to Secretary of State

    14. 52.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    15. 53. Notices etc. to be in writing

    16. 54. Local enactments

    17. 55. Application of Act to Crown premises

    18. 56. Saving for Coast Protection Act 1949

    19. 57. Expenses

    20. 58. Orders

    21. 59. Interpretation

    22. 60. Amendments and repeals

    23. 61. Short title, extent and commencement

  4. SCHEDULE 1

    CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

  5. SCHEDULE 2

    ENACTMENTS REPEALED

An Act to make new provision as respects sewerage in Scotland, and for connected purposes.

[26th July 1968]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act amended (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 12, ss. 40, 51(2), Sch. 3 Pt. II para.13 (with s. 46)

C2Act modified (17.7.1995) by 1994 c. 39, s. 65(2) (with s. 74(4)); S.I. 1995/1898, art. 2(a), Sch.

Commencement Information

I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 61(2); Act wholly in force at 16.5.1973

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