An Act to amend the law relating to the public health.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An Act to amend the law relating to the public health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Public Health. such Provisions “ Sewer Authority ” were substituted for “ Local Board of Health ” or “ Local Board,” and the District in such Provisions mentioned were the District of the Sewer Authority and not the District of the Local Board; that is to say, the Sections numbered from Seventy-five to Eighty, both inclusive, of The Public Health Act, 1848, Sections Eifty-one, Eifty-two, and Eifty- tliree of The Local Government Act, 1858, and Section Twenty of The Local Government Act, 1858, Amendment Act, 1861. The Sewer Authority may, if it think it expedient so to do, provide a Supply of Water for the Use of the Inhabitants of the District by (1.) Digging Wells; (2.) Making and maintaining Reservoirs ; (3.) Doing any other necessary Acts; and they may themselves furnish the same, or contract with any other Persons or Companies to furnish the same : Provided always, that no Land be purchased or taken under tliis Clause except by Agreement or in manner provided by The Local Government Act, 1858. 12. Any Expenses incurred by a Sewer Authority in or about Expenses of the Supply of Water to its District, and in carrying into effect the Provisions herein-before in that Behalf mentioned, shall be supplying deemed to be Expenses incurred by that Authority in carrying Water, into effect The Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, and be payable accordingly. 13. All Property in Wells, Eountains, and Pumps, and Powers Wells, &c in relation thereto, vested in the Nuisance Authority by the Seventh Section of the Act passed in the Session of the Twenty- third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-seven, shall vest in the Sewer Authority, where the Sewer Authority supplies Water to its District. belonging to any Place vested in Sewer Authority, &c. 23 & 24 Viet, c. 77. s. I. PART II. Amendment of the Nuisances Removal Acts. 14. The Expression “ Nuisances Removal Acts ” shall mean the Definition of Acts passed in the Years following of the Reign of Her present ‘^^Jlol®^ce3 Majesty, that is to say, the one in the Session of the Eighteenth and Acts.” Nineteenth Years, Chapter One hundred and twenty-one, and the other in the Session of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years, Chapter Seventy-seven, as amended by this Part of this Act; and this Part of this Act shall be construed as One with the said Acts, 9 T and