15Short title, citation, extent and commencement.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act, 1937; and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Public Health Acts, 1936 and 1937.

(2)This Act shall not extend to Scotland, Northern Ireland or the administrative county of London, and shall not extend to any area which, immediately before the passing of this Act, drained directly or indirectly into any sewer or sewage disposal works vested in the London County Council or in the council of a metropolitan borough, so long as that area continues to drain as aforesaid into any sewer or sewage disposal works so vested.

(3)This Act shall, save as otherwise specially provided therein, come into operation on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight.