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It is obligatory upon the 'County Council to make Bye-lawn, and Bye-laws
have been made, under tlie following Sections of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 : —
"16.—(2.) The County Council shall make Bye-laws —
"(a) For prescribing the times for the removal or carriage by
road or water of any fcecal or offensive or noxious matter or liquid
in or through London, and providing that the carriage or vessel
used therefor shall be properly constructed and covered so as to
prevent the escape of any such matter or liquid, and as to prevent
any nuisance arising therefrom ; and
"(b) As to the closing and filling up of cesspools and privies,
and as to the removal and disposal of refuse, and as to the duties of
the occupier of any premises in connection with house refuse, so as
to facilitate the removal of it by the scavengers of the Sanitary
Authority.
"(3.) It shall be the duty of every Sanitary Authority to
observe and enforce any Bye-laws made under this Section."
"39.—(1.) The County Council shall make Bye laws with respect to
water-closets, earth-closets, privies, ash-pits, cesspools and receptacles
for dung, and the proper accessories thereof in connection with
buildings, whether constructed before or after the passing of this
Act.
"(3.) It shall be the duty of every Sanitary Authority to observe
and enforce the Bye-laws under this Section; and any directions
given by the Sanitary Authority under this Act shall be in
accordance with the said Bye-laws, and so far as they are not so in
accordance shall be void."
All Bye-laws are subject to the following Section of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
"114.—All Bye-laws made by the County Council or by any Sanitary
Authority under this Act shall be made subject and according to the provisions
with respect to Bye-laws contained in sections one hundred and eightytwo
to one hundred and eighty-six of the Public Health Act, 1875, and set
forth in the First Schedule to this Act, and those sections shall apply in like
manner as if the County Council or Sanitary Authority were a Local
Authority.
"Provided that the County Council, in making any Bye-laws which will
have to be observed and enforced by any Sanitary Authority, shall consider
any representations made to the Council by that Authority, and not less than
two months before applying to the Local Government Board for the confirmation
of any such Bye-laws shall send a copy of the proposed Bye-laws to
every such Authority."