Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act 1937

7 Agreements between local authorities and traders or other local authorities

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any trade effluents byelaws for the time being in force, a local authority may enter into and carry into effect an agreement with the owner or occupier of any trade premises within their district for the reception and disposal by the local authority of any trade effluent produced on those premises, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provision, the agreement may provide for the construction by the local authority of such works as may be required for the said reception or disposal, and for the repayment by the owner or occupier, as the case may be, of the whole or part of the expenses incurred by the local authority in carrying out their obligations under the agreement:

Provided that any agreement entered into under this subsection by a local authority shall not take effect unless and until the agreement has been approved by any interested body or the Minister has dispensed with the necessity for such approval.

(2) A local authority may enter into and carry into effect an agreement with the owner or occupier of any trade premises within their district, whereby the local authority, upon such terms as may be specified in the agreement, undertake to remove and dispose of substances produced in the course of treating any trade effluent on or in connection with those premises.

(3) A copy of every agreement entered into by a local authority in pursuance of this section, certified by the clerk of the local authority, shall be kept by the local authority at their offices so as to be available at all reasonable times for inspection and copying by any person, upon payment of a fee of sixpence for each inspection.

(4) Nothing in this Act or in any trade effluents byelaws shall affect any agreement with respect to any trade effluent duly made between a local authority and the owner or occupier of any trade premises before the commencement of this Act or the coming into operation of the byelaws, as the case may be.

(5) If, on the application of any party to an agreement made before the passing of this Act between sewerage authorities, whereby it is agreed that a sewer of one sewerage authority may communicate with a sewer, or discharge into any sewage disposal works, of another such authority, the Minister is satisfied that, owing to circumstances arising or likely to arise by reason of the operation of this Act, the agreement ought to be cancelled or varied, he may by order direct that, subject to such conditions (if any) as he may in default of agreement between the parties determine, the agreement shall cease to have effect, or that the agreement shall be varied in such manner as may be specified in the order.

(6) This section shall have effect as from the passing of this Act.