Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968

PART IGeneral Provisions as to Sewerage

Duties and powers of local authorities

1Duty of local authority to provide for sewerage of their area

2Maintenance of public sewers and other works

3Construction etc. of public sewers and public sewage treatment works

4Power of local authority to close or alter public sewers etc.

5Agreements between local authorities

6Functions outwith the area of a local authority

7Agreements between highway and local authorities

8Agreements as to provision of sewers etc. for new premises

9Loan of temporary sanitary conveniences

10Emptying of septic tanks

11Duty of local authority to keep map showing public sewers etc.

Rights and duties of owners and occupiers

12Rights of owners and occupiers to connect with and drain into public sewers etc.

13Rights of owners and occupiers to connect with and drain into sewers etc. of another local authority

14Direction by local authority as to manner of construction of works

15Owner or occupier to remedy defects in drains and other works

Vesting of sewers, drains and works

16Vesting of sewers and other works in local authority

17Local authority may take over private sewage treatment works

18Expenses of local authorities and dissolution of drainage districts

19Compulsory acquisition of land

20Compensation for loss etc. resulting from exercise of powers under this Part of this Act

21Buildings not to interfere with sewers

22Protection for statutory undertakers

23Restriction on working of minerals

PART IITrade Effluents

Right to discharge into public sewers

24Right to discharge into public sewers

Control of new discharges

25Meaning of new discharge

26New discharge only with consent of the authority

27Procedure on application for consent to new discharge

28Time to dispose of application

29Decision on application

30Intimation of decision

31Appeal against refusals and conditions

32Review of consents, conditions and refusals

Control of existing discharges

33Meaning of existing discharge

34Right to continue existing discharge

35Furnishing of information

36Review of continuation of existing discharge

Agreements in lieu of applications for consent

37Agreements as respects trade premises

38Power to extend Part II to other effluents

PART IIIMiscellaneous and General

39Local authority to have right to sewage

40Powers of local authorities as to research and publicity

41Breaking open of streets, etc.

42Execution of works by local authorities for other persons

43Power to require occupier to permit works to be executed by owner

44Power of local authorities to require information as to ownership etc. of premises

45Production of plans and furnishing of information to authorities

46Certain matter not to be passed into drains

47Recovery of expenses by local authority

48Powers of entry

49Admissibility of samples as evidence

50Restriction on disclosure of information

51Procedure on appeals to Secretary of State

52Exemption from stamp duties

53Notices etc. to be in writing

54Local enactments

55Application of Act to Crown premises

56Saving for Coast Protection Act 1949

59Interpretation

60Amendments and repeals

61Short title, extent and commencement

SCHEDULE 1Consequential Amendments

The Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897

1There shall be inserted at the end of section 28...

2There shall be inserted at the beginning of section 116...

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

3In Schedule 6, item 11, for the words "Section 139...

The Radioactive Substances Act I960

4There shall be inserted at the end of Part II...

SCHEDULE 2Enactments Repealed

Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968

1968 Chapter 47

An Act to make new provision as respects sewerage in Scotland, and for connected purposes.

[26th July 1968]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—