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Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, or under the order of any Vestry or District Board, and
shall also include any drain which has not been approved as a sewer either by the Metropolitan
Commissioners of Sewers or by the Metropolitan Board of Works or the London County Council.
2. Any Local Authority may recover any expenses incurred by them in cleansing, repairing
or replacing any drain for draining any group or block of houses from the Owner or Ownersof any
premises for the drainage of which such drain 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 from the present or any future Owner of the premises
either by action in the High Court or before a court of summary jurisdiction.
3. This Act shall not apply to any expenses incurred by a local authority before the passing
thereof, but shall apply to expenses incurred after the passing thereof in the case of any drain for
draining any group or block of houses whether constructed before or after the passing of this Act.
4. The expression "Local Authority" as used in this Act means any Vestry or District
board of orks under the Metropolis Management Acts, 1855 to 1890, and the Acts amending the
same, or in the Parish of Woolwich the Woolwich Local Board of Health.
5. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1896, and shall
be construed as one with the Metropolis Management Acts, 1855 to 1890, and the Acts amending
the same.
The Bill had not readied its second rending at the close of the year.