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carrying on part-time businesses) and the making of by-laws relating
to the cleanliness of premises, instruments, towels, etc., and of
persons employed.
The Council may by resolution fix the day on which registration
shall be compulsory in this Borough (which must not be less than one
month after public notice is given).
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT,
1953: DISCHARGE OF TRADE EFFLUENTS INTO SEWERS
Part II of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1953,
relating to the discharge of trade effluents etc., into sewers came into
operation on 1st April, 1954.
Section 4 (2) of the Act provides that the "sewer authority" in
relation to the discharge or proposed discharge of any trade effluent
into the London sewerage system shall be the County Council or the
local sewer authority (i.e. the City Corporation or the Metropolitan
Borough Council) in whom is vested the sewer into which the
effluent will first enter; but this provision is subject to the provisions
of section 13, by which the local sewer authority may, with the
agreement of the London County Council, authorise that Council to
perform on its behalf any of its functions under sections 9 to 12
(relating to requests to traders for information, imposition of conditions
with respect to discharge of trade effluents, agreements with
traders and provision of inspection chambers at trade premises).
Such an authorisation may be subject to such conditions as may be
agreed between the two authorities. Although there are many trade
effluents already draining direct to the County Council's main
sewers, by far the largest proportion of the trade effluents in London
drain first to local sewers.
The London County Council were informed that it was not proposed
to ask that they should perform any of this Council's functions
in this respect.