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Public Health Act 1961

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64Power to extend Act of 1937 to other effluents

(1)The Minister may by order provide that the Act of 1937 and this Part of this Act shall apply in relation to liquid or other matter of any description specified in the order which is discharged from any premises into public sewers as they apply in relation to trade effluents, but subject to such modifications, if any, as may be specified in the order, and in particular subject to any modification of the definition of trade premises in the Act of 1937 which may be so specified.

(2)The Minister may include in an order under this section such provisions as appear to him expedient for modifying any enactment relating to sewage as that enactment applies in relation to the discharge into sewers of any liquid or other matter to which any provisions of the Act of 1937 are applied by an order under this section.

(3)The Minister may include in an order under this section such transitional, supplemental and incidental provisions as appear to him to be expedient.

(4)An order made under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order.

(5)An order under this section shall be made by statutory instrument and the Minister shall not make an order under this section unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

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