8(1)Where in an inner London borough—
(a)a house or other building, whenever erected, is not drained, to the satisfaction of the borough council, by means of a sufficient drain communicating with, and emptying itself into, a sewer, and
(b)a sewer is or will be available for the drainage of the house or building,
the council may, by notice served on the owner of the house or building, impose such requirements as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below.
(2)The requirements that may be imposed by notice under sub-paragraph (1) above are requirements—
(a)to construct a covered drain from the house or building into the said sewer and such connections to the drain as are adequate for the purposes of draining the house or building, including any areas, water-closets, privies and offices belonging to the house or building, and of conveying the sewage from it into the sewer,
(b)to construct the drain and the connections of such materials and size, at such level and with such fall as are adequate for the said purposes,
(c)to provide proper paved or impermeable sloping surfaces for carrying surface water into the drain or any connections to it,
(d)to provide proper sinks, and proper inlets and outlets, syphoned or otherwise trapped, for preventing the emission of effluvia from the drain or any connection to it,
(e)to provide a proper water supply and water-supplying pipes, cisterns and apparatus for scouring the drain and any connections to it, and for causing the drain and any connections to it to convey away the soil,
(f)to provide proper sand traps, expanding inlets and other apparatus for preventing the entry of improper substances into the drain or any connections to it, and
(g)to provide all such other proper works and arrangements as appear to the council or their officers necessary to secure the safe and proper working of the drain and to prevent it from obstructing or otherwise injuring, or impeding the action of, the sewer into which it leads.
(3)Where—
(a)a house or other building in an inner London borough, whenever erected, is without sufficient drainage, and
(b)there is no proper sewer within 200 feet of any part of the house or building,
the borough council may, with a view to making temporary provision for the drainage of the house or building and for the abatement of any nuisance existing in it or caused by it, serve on the owner of the house or building a written notice requiring him—
(i)to construct, elsewhere than under a house and not nearer to any house than the council may direct, a covered watertight cesspool or tank or other suitable receptacle, and
(ii)to construct and lay a covered drain leading from the first mentioned house or building into that cesspool, tank or other receptacle.
(4)Where a borough council have required any works to be executed under the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, the council may, from time to time during the execution of the works, cause them to be inspected, and may by further notice served on the owner of the house or building require such reasonable alterations of them, additions to them or abandonment of parts of them as the council or their officers, with the fuller knowledge afforded by the opening of the ground, consider necessary to secure that the works will be thoroughly effective for their purpose.
(5)Where—
(a)it appears to the council of an inner London borough that a group or block of contiguous houses, or of adjacent detached or semi-detached houses, can more economically or advantageously be drained and improved in combination than separately, and
(b)a sewer of sufficient size is situated, or is about to be constructed, within 100 feet of a part of the group or block,
the council may by order (which they may by order vary or revoke) require that the group or block be drained by a combined operation complying with such of the requirements mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above as may be specified in the order.
(6)In sub-paragraph (5) above, “house ” includes a school and also a factory or other building in which persons are employed and, in relation to a house as so defined, includes its curtilage.
(7)Any person aggrieved by an order made by a borough council under sub-paragraph (5) above may appeal to a magistrates' court.
(8)Sub-paragraphs (5) to (7) above apply to the City of London as if references in them to an inner London borough and its council were references to the City of London and its Common Council.
(9)Sections 99 and 102 of this Act apply in relation to a notice given under sub-paragraph (1) or (3) above.