Special Roads Act 1949

6 Restriction of powers of sewerage authorities

(1) The provisions of sections four and five of this Act (including the enactments applied by the said section five) shall, so far as applicable, apply in relation to the sewers and sewage disposal works of any sewerage authority as they apply in relation to the apparatus of statutory undertakers, and references in those provisions to statutory undertakers and statutory undertakings shall be construed accordingly.

(2) In the enactments specified in subsection (1) and subsection (2) of the said section five as applied for the purposes of this section, references to the appropriate Minister shall be construed, in relation to a sewerage authority, as references to the Minister of Health or the Secretary of State, as the case may be.

(3) Where a public sewer is removed in pursuance of a notice or order given or made under section twenty-five of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, or section twenty-four of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1945, as applied for the purposes of this section, any person being the owner or occupier of any premises the drains of which communicated with that sewer, or the owner of any private sewer which communicated with that sewer, shall be entitled to recover from the special road authority compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by him, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of making his drain or sewer communicate with any other public sewer or with a private sewage disposal plant.