London Government Act 1963

37 Application of enactments relating to sewerage and sewage disposal

(1) The following enactments relating to sewerage, drainage and sewage disposal, that is to say—

(a) the provisions of sections 14 to 42 and 330 of the Public Health Act 1936 and sections 1 (2) and 90 and Part XII of that Act so far as they relate to those provisions;

(b) section 13 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 ; and

(c) sections 12 to 15 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Public Health Act 1961,

shall, subject to the exceptions and modifications specified in Parts I and II of Schedule 9 to this Act, apply to all parts of the sewerage area of the Greater London Council and shall so apply instead of any other enactments in that behalf and, in particular in the case of the inner London boroughs, the City and the Temples, instead of any corresponding provisions contained in Parts II and XIV of the Public Health (London) Act 1936.

(2) The provisions of Part III of the said Schedule 9 shall, except so far as the contrary intention appears, have effect in all parts of the sewerage area of the Greater London Council (being provisions reproducing, with modifications designed amongst other things to enable them to operate in that area or to bring them into conformity with this Act or the enactments mentioned in the foregoing subsection, provisions of Part II of the Public Health (London) Act 1936 and other enactments relating to sewerage, sewage disposal and drainage in the administrative county of London which do not correspond to any enactments mentioned in that subsection but which it is expedient to apply to that area).

(3) The enactments mentioned in subsection (1) of this section shall apply to any part of Greater London outside the sewerage area of the Greater London Council as they apply elsewhere in England and Wales, subject, however, in the case of section 21 of the Public Health Act 1936 to the modifications specified in paragraph 5 of Part II of Schedule 9 to this Act, and accordingly the local authority for the purposes of those enactments in their application to any such part of Greater London shall as respects a London borough be the council of the borough; but the foregoing provision shall not affect the application of any local statutory provision having effect in the district of the West Kent Main Sewerage Board.

(4) Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part I of the said Schedule 9 shall extend outside the sewerage area of the Greater London Council.