Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968
Part I General Provisions as to Sewerage
Duties and powers of local authorities
1 Duty of local authority to provide for sewerage of their area.
2 Maintenance of public sewers and other works.
3 Construction etc. of public sewers and public sewage treatment works.
3A Authorisation of construction of certain private sewers etc.
4 Power of local authority to close or alter public sewers etc.
5 General Provisions as to Sewerage
6 Functions outwith the area of a local authority.
7 Agreements between highway and local authorities.
8 Agreements as to provision of sewers etc. for new premises.
9 Loan of temporary sanitary conveniences.
10 Emptying of septic tanks.
11 Duty of local authority to keep map showing public sewers etc.
Rights and duties of owners and occupiers
12 Rights of owners and occupiers to connect with and drain into public sewers etc.
13 Rights of owners and occupiers to connect with and drain into sewers etc. of another local authority.
14 Direction by local authority as to manner of construction of works.
15 Owner or occupier to remedy defects in drains and other works.
Vesting of sewers, drains and works
16 Vesting of sewers and other works in local authority.
16A Vesting of certain private sewers.
17 Local authority may take over private sewage treatment works.
Miscellaneous
18 General Provisions as to Sewerage
19 General Provisions as to Sewerage
20 Compensation for loss etc. resulting from exercise of powers under this Part of this Act.
21 Buildings not to interfere with sewers.
22 Protection for statutory undertakers.
23 Restriction on working minerals.
Part II Trade Effluents
Right to discharge into public sewers
24 Right to discharge into public sewers.
Control of new discharges
25 Meaning of new discharge.
26 New discharge only with consent of the authority.
27 Procedure on application for consent to new discharge.
28 Time to dispose of application.
29 Decision on application.
29APriority substances etc.
30 Intimation of decision.
31 Appeal against refusals and conditions.
32 Review of consents, conditions and refusals.
Control of existing discharges
33 Meaning of existing discharge.
34 Right to continue existing discharge.
35 Furnishing of information.
36 Review of continuation of existing discharge.
Agreements in lieu of applications for consent
37 Agreements as respects trade premises.
37ARegister for purposes of Part II.
37BExclusion from register of information affecting national security.
37C Exclusion from register of commercially confidential information
Supplementary
38 Power to extend Part II to other effluents.
PART IIAPrivate sewage treatment works
38AApplication of Part
38BOther rules
38CCommon maintenance
38DNotice and effect
38EReview of notice
38FRecovery of cost
38GLiability of owner
38HControlled Activities Regulations
Part III Miscellaneous and General
39 Local authority to have right to sewage.
40 Miscellaneous and General
41 Breaking open of streets, etc.
42 Execution of works by local authorities for other persons.
43 Power to require occupier to permit works to be executed by owner.
44 Power of local authorities to require information as to ownership etc. of premises.
45 Production of plans and furnishing of information to authorities.
46 Certain matter not to be passed into drains.
46AOffence as to fat, oil or grease
46BDamage caused by fat, oil or grease
47 Miscellaneous and General
48 Powers of entry.
49 Miscellaneous and General
50 Restriction on disclosure of information.
51 Procedure on appeals to Secretary of State.
52 Miscellaneous and General
53 Notices etc. to be in writing.
54 Local enactments.
55 Application of Act to Crown premises.
56 Saving for Coast Protection Act 1949.
57 Expenses.
58 Orders.
59 Interpretation.
60 Amendments and repeals.
61 Short title, extent and commencement.
SCHEDULE 1 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
The Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897
1. . . . . . . . . ....
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 1960
4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SCHEDULE 2 ENACTMENTS REPEALED

Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968

1968 c.47

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

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1

Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 61(2); Act wholly in force at 16.5.1973

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Act amended (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 12, ss. 40, 51(2), Sch. 3 Pt. II para.13 (with s. 46)

C2

Act modified (17.7.1995) by 1994 c. 39, s. 65(2) (with s. 74(4)); S.I. 1995/1898, art. 2(a), Sch.