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Contents (1954 - 67)

Sewers and Drains Act 1954

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Long Title

Part I - Preliminary

1. Short title

2. Interpretation

Part II - Provision of Sewerage and Drainage

3. Duty of local authority

4. Existing schemes

5. Existing districts

6. New municipal schemes

7. Schemes by statutory undertakers

8. Standard purposes and descriptions

9. Enforcement of local authorities' duty under section three

Part III - General Powers and Duties

10. Communication of sewers with sewers of another sewerage authority

11. Adoption by local authority of sewers and sewage disposal works

12. Power of local authority to agree to adopt sewers or sewage disposal works at future date

12A. Power to contract

13. Duty of local authority to keep map on which to be marked sewers, &c.

14. Local authority not to create any nuisance

15. Common sewers

Part IV - Construction

16. Powers of construction

17. Notices to be given before construction outside district

18. Breaking open streets

19. Power to enter land and take materials

20. Protection of certain railway and harbour works

21. Further protection of railway and harbour works

22. Protection of land drainage works

23. Power to require gas and water pipes to be moved

24. Works below high-water mark

25. Compensation to individuals if damage results from exercise of power under Act

26. Sewers and drains vested in local authority

27. Power of local authority to execute certain works on behalf of the owner or occupier

28. Power of owner not in possession

29. Right of local authority to recover costs of construction of a system

30. Power of local authority to do stormwater or urban land drainage at land owners' expense

31. Construction under section thirty in advance of requirements

32. Powers of local authorities to combine for the purposes of Act

33. Powers of local authorities to execute works outside their districts

34. Power of railway, harbour and other sewerage authorities to alter sewers vested in a local authority

35. Power to apply provisions of Act to Crown property

Part V - Control and Maintenance of Sewers and Drains

36. Control, cleansing, and maintenance

37. Power to alter or close common sewers

38. Abandonment of sewers

Part VI - Protection of Sewers and Drains

39. Buildings not to be erected without consent over sewers or drains shown on deposited map

40. Matters not to be put into sewers

41. Offences

Part VII - Private Lands

42. Right to drain lands within district into common sewers

43. Facilities to drain into common sewers

44. Right of local authority to undertake the making of communications with common sewers

45. Local authority may require proposed drain to be so constructed as to form part of general system

46. Recovery of local authority's expenses under section forty-five

47. Power of local authority to alter private drainage system

48. Notice to be given of intention to repair, &c., underground drains in cities and towns

49. Use of common sewers by persons outside district

Part VIII - Drainage of Buildings

50. Drainage of new buildings

51. Provision for existing buildings

51A. Compulsory connection to sewers

52. Common sewers to be extended to meet private drains

53. Protection of highways

54. Drainage of buildings in combination

55. Repealed

56. Repealed

57. Care of closets

Part IX - Septic Tank Districts

58. Interpretation

59. Creation of districts

60. Houses within district to have sanitary works

61. Owner to do approved works or request local authority to do them

62. Repealed

63. Owner deemed to have requested water authority to supply water

64. Works improperly carried out

65. Alterations

Part X - Industrial Drainage

66. Interpretation

67. Provision for industrial effluents by local authorities

67A. Protection of public and sewers

Part XI - Works at the Owner's Expense

68. Ascertainment of sums due to local authorities

69. Owner's liability for expenses recoverable by local authority

70. Power to recover establishment expenses

71. Repayment by instalments

72. Power of municipality to borrow money by the issue of instalment debentures

73. Debentures to be repaid within 20 years

74. Application of repayments

75. Power of local authority to borrow to meet deficiency

76. Power to make a separate rate

Part XII - Miscellaneous

77. Mines

78. Power to enter premises

79. Penalty for obstructing execution of Act

80. Notices, &c.

81. Authentication of documents

82. Service of notices, &c.

83. Provisions as to appeals against, and the enforcement of, notices requiring execution of works

84. Procedures on reviews

85. Regulations

86. By-laws

87. Model by-laws

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Sewers and Drains Act 1954

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