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After discussion, the following motion was withdrawn by permission
of the Conference:—
"That the definition of drain in the Metropolis Management Acts
should be made to include any drain which has not been approved as
a sewer by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, or by the
Metropolitan Board of Works, or by the London County Council."
Together with Mr. Councillor A. H. Darby, Chairman of the Public
Health and Housing Committee, and the Borough Surveyor, I attended
on the 6th December, 1907, at the Town Hall, St. Pancras, an adjourned
Conference of the City and Metropolitan Borough Councils in regard to a
Draft Bill to amend the Metropolis Management Acts with respect to
"sewers" or "drains," the draft clause, which was unanimously agreed
upon, being as follows:—
"In and for the purposes of the Metropolis Mangement Acts,
1855 to 1899, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or any Act
or Acts amending the same, the word 'drain' shall be deemed to
include any sewer or drain, whether constructed before or after the
passing of this Act, with which two or more houses or premises are
at the date of the passing of this Act or may at any time thereafter,
be connected or which is used, or capable of being or intended to be
used, for the conveyance of the drainage of such houses or buildings
directly or indirectly to any sewer which has been approved as such
by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, the Metropolitan
Board of Works, or the London County Council, but shall not
include any sewer so approved as aforesaid."
Proposed Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill.
The General Purposes Committee considered a Bill entitled the
Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill, dealing with the question of
liability for maintenance of combined drainage, approved by a Conference
of representatives of the City and Metropolitan Borough Councils,
proposed to be introduced in the next Session of Parliament.
Clause I. of the Bill defines the word "drain" (a drain being
maintainable by the owners thereof) as follows:—
"In and for the purpose of the Metroplis Management Acts,
1855 to 1899, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or any Act
or Acts amending the same, the word 'drain' shall be deemed to
include any sewer or drain, whether constructed before or after the