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The following is a copy of the draft Bill prepared by the London County Council
a
BILL
to
Amend the Metropolis Management Acts with respect to Sewers.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the authority of the same, as follows:
1. For the purpose of this Act "a private sewer" means a sewer so constructed as to be
capable of receiving drainage from more than one house, but which has not been constructed by
the Local Authority and has not been sanctioned and approved, as provided by sections 47 and 48
of the Metropolis Management Act, 1832, and the expression "Local Authority " means any
Vestry or District Board acting under the Metropolis Management Acts, and includes the
Woolwich Local Board.
2. Subject to the provisions of this Act, every provision of the Metropolis Management
Acts relating to a drain shall be deemed to extend to a private sewer.
3. Any Local Authority may recover any expenses incurred by them in cleansing,
maintaining, repairing, or replacing any private sewer from the owner or owners of any premises
for the drainage of which such sewer is or may be used in such proportions, if there be more than
one such owner, as may be settled by the Surveyor of the Local Authority, or in case of dispute by
the London County Council.
Any such expenses may be recovered summarily in the same manner as the expenses of
making and paving new streets are authorised to be recovered under the .Metropolis Management
Acts.
For the purpose of examining any private sewer or of doing any work neeessary for the
cleansing, maintenance, repair, or replacing of any such sewer, a Local Authority or their
Surveyor or Inspector or such other person as they appoint shall have the like powers as are
contained in section 82 of the Metropolis Management Act of 1855 in regard to drains.