Metropolis Management Act 1855

LXXXII Power for Vestries and District Boards to authorize Inspection of Drains, Privies, and Cesspools.

It shall be lawful for any such Vestry or Board, or for their Surveyor or Inspector, or such other Person as they appoint, to inspect any Drain, Watercloset, Privy, Cesspool, or Water Supply Apparatus, or Sinks, Traps, Syphons, Pipes, or other Works or Apparatus connected therewith, within the Parish or District of such Vestry or Board, and for that Purpose, at all reasonable Times in the Daytime, after Twenty-four Hours Notice in Writing has been given to the Occupier of the Premises to which such Drain, Watercloset, Privy, Cesspool, or Water Supply Apparatus, or other connected Works or Apparatus as aforesaid, is attached, or left upon the Premises, or in case of Emergency without Notice, to enter, by themselves or their Surveyor or Inspector and Workmen, upon any Premises, and cause the Ground to be opened in any Place they think fit, doing as little Damage as may be.