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Corporation be approved by the Local Government Board, and such works
and terms and conditions may be substituted with the approval of the Board
for the works authorised by this Act and for the provisions contained in this
section and in the first Schedule to this Act, but before making any such
application to the Local Government Board the Corporation shall give notice
of their intention so to do to the Sanitary Authority of the Port of London,
and shall on demand furnish to that Authority all such information in regard
to such application as they may reasonably require.
(4) The Medical Officer of Health of the Sanitary Authority of the Port
of London and the Medical Officer of Health of the County of Essex, or
either of them, may take samples, in accordance with the regulations
contained in the first Schedule to this Act, of the effluent discharged by the
Corporation from their sewage works, and may examine such samples in the
manner prescribed by those regulations; and if upon such examination the
said Medical Officers, or either of them, shall certify that such effluent does
not comply with the standards of purity prescribed by the said regulations,
or any of such standards, such certificate shall be conclusive unless within
seven days after the receipt of such certificate the Corporation give notice to
the said Sanitary Authority and to the Essex County Council, or to either of
them, as the case may require, disputing the correctness thereof, and in that
case the question shall be determined in accordance with sub-section (5) of
this section.
(5) Any question as to whether the Corporation are complying with
the provisions contained in this section or in the first Schedule to this Act,
and any question as to whether a failure to comply therewith is of a
temporary character, and is due to circumstances beyond the control of
the Corporation, shall be determined on the application of any interested
person, or of the Corporation by the Local Government Board.
(6) If the Corporation fail to comply with the provisions of this section
they shall (unless such failure be of a temporary character, and be due to
circumstances beyond the control of the Corporation) shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to a further penalty not exceeding
five pounds for every day on which such failure shall continue after
conviction, such penalties to be recovered in manner provided by the Summary
Jurisdiction Acts.
(7) The Sanitary Authority of the Port of London or the Essex County
Council may take proceedings for the recovery of penalties under this section.