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Section 91. It is the duty of the Conservators to preserve the flow
and purity of the water of the Thames and its tributaries, and to scavenge
the surface of the Thames and its tributaries within three miles of
the Thames down to the western boundary of the county of London.
Section 92, sub-section 4, "prohibits the wilful discharge of any offensive
matter, whether solid or fluid, into the Thames or into any tributary.
This section shall not extend or apply to any vessel within the limits of
the Port of London, and under the jurisdiction of the Port Sanitary
Authority thereof.
Sub-section 5 prohibits any heap or accumulation of manure, ashes or
other offensive matter to remain for more than 48 hours upon any bank
of the Thames or its tributaries.
Section 93 prohibits the discharge of any sewage into the Thames or
its tributaries.
Section 94 provides for Notice being served requiring discontinuance
of pollution.
Section 99 requires the Sanitary Authority and owners and occupiers
to afford information of such pollution.
Section 100 gives power to the Conservators to stop up the outlet of a
sewer.
Under the Port of London Act, 1908, sub-section 2 (k), provides that
" so much of any such enactments as confers powers in relation to
" pollution shall not apply in the case of any tributaries of the Thames
" in the County of Middlesex."
Section 45 orders that the provisions of sections 93, 94, 99 of the
Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, which chiefly concern pollution, shall not
apply in any area comprised in the Borough of Southend-on-Sea or
between that Borough and a straight line drawn from the West Shoebury
Buoy to the most easterly point of Canvey Island.
Section 46 in similar manner exempts the Urban District of Sheerness,
" including the foreshore opposite that district, nor as respects any part
"of the bed of the River Thames within 100 yards from that foreshore."
Section 47 is a saving for the Rural District of Sheppey with regard
to the construction of a sewer outfall in that district, or the use of such
sewer outfall when constructed.
The limits of the Port of London for the purposes of this Act are as
follows :—
" The limits of the Port of London shall commence at an imaginary
" straight line (in this Act referred to as the landward limit of the Port