Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968
Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (1968 c. 47)
- Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (1968 c. 47)
- Part I General Provisions as to Sewerage
- Duties and powers of local authorities
- 1 Duty of local authority to provide for sewerage of their area.
- 2 Maintenance of public sewers and other works.
- 3 Construction etc. of public sewers and public sewage treatment works.
- 3A Authorisation of construction of certain private sewers etc.
- 4 Power of local authority to close or alter public sewers etc.
- 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 6 Functions outwith the area of a local authority.
- 7 Agreements between highway and local authorities.
- 8 Agreements as to provision of sewers etc. for new premises.
- 9 Loan of temporary sanitary conveniences.
- 10 Emptying of septic tanks.
- 11 Duty of local authority to keep map showing public sewers etc.
- Rights and duties of owners and occupiers
- 12 Rights of owners and occupiers to connect with and drain into public sewers etc.
- 13 Rights of owners and occupiers to connect with and drain into sewers etc. of another local authority.
- 14 Direction by local authority as to manner of construction of works.
- 15 Owner or occupier to remedy defects in drains and other works.
- Vesting of sewers, drains and works
- 16 Vesting of sewers and other works in local authority.
- 16A Vesting of certain private sewers.
- 17 Local authority may take over private sewage treatment works.
- Miscellaneous
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- 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 20 Compensation for loss etc. resulting from exercise of powers under this Part of this Act.
- 21 Buildings not to interfere with sewers.
- 22 Protection for statutory undertakers.
- 23 Restriction on working minerals.
- Part II Trade Effluents
- Right to discharge into public sewers
- 24 Right to discharge into public sewers.
- Control of new discharges
- 25 Meaning of new discharge.
- 26 New discharge only with consent of the authority.
- 27 Procedure on application for consent to new discharge.
- 28 Time to dispose of application.
- 29 Decision on application.
- 29A Priority substances etc.
- 30 Intimation of decision.
- 31 Appeal against refusals and conditions.
- 32 Review of consents, conditions and refusals.
- Control of existing discharges
- 33 Meaning of existing discharge.
- 34 Right to continue existing discharge.
- 35 Furnishing of information.
- 36 Review of continuation of existing discharge.
- Agreements in lieu of applications for consent
- 37 Agreements as respects trade premises.
- 37A Register for purposes of Part II.
- 37B Exclusion from register of information affecting national security.
- 37C Exclusion from register of commercially confidential information
- Supplementary
- 38 Power to extend Part II to other effluents.
- PART IIA Private sewage treatment works
- 38A Application of Part
- 38B Other rules
- 38C Common maintenance
- 38D Notice and effect
- 38E Review of notice
- 38F Recovery of cost
- 38G Liability of owner
- 38H 2018 Regulations
- Part III Miscellaneous and General
- 39 Local authority to have right to sewage.
- 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 41 Breaking open of streets, etc.
- 42 Execution of works by local authorities for other persons.
- 43 Power to require occupier to permit works to be executed by owner.
- 44 Power of local authorities to require information as to ownership etc. of premises.
- 45 Production of plans and furnishing of information to authorities.
- 46 Certain matter not to be passed into drains.
- 46A Offence as to fat, oil or grease
- 46B Damage caused by fat, oil or grease
- 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 48 Powers of entry.
- 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 50 Restriction on disclosure of information.
- 51 Procedure on appeals to Secretary of State.
- 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 53 Notices etc. to be in writing.
- 54 Local enactments.
- 55 Application of Act to Crown premises.
- 56 Saving for Coast Protection Act 1949.
- 57 Expenses.
- 58 Orders.
- 59 Interpretation.
- 60 Amendments and repeals.
- 61 Short title, extent and commencement.
- SCHEDULE 1 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
- The Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897
- The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947
- The Radioactive Substances Act 1960
- SCHEDULE 2 ENACTMENTS REPEALED
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