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Section 132: Byelaws for preventing waste, misuse or contamination of water, and &c.

Public Health Act 1936 · 1936 c. 49View on legislation.gov.uk

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Part IV: Water Supply.

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A local authority who supply water under this Act may make byelaws for preventing the waste, undue consumption, misuse or contamination of water supplied by them.

Byelaws under this section may include provisions prescribing the size, nature, materials, strength and workmanship, and the mode of arrangement, connection, disconnection, alteration and repair, of the water fittings to be used, and forbidding any arrangements and the use of any water fittings which permit, or are likely to permit, waste, undue consumption, misuse, erroneous measurement or contamination of water.

If a person contravenes, or fails to comply with, the provisions of any byelaw made under this section, the authority may, without prejudice to their right to take proceedings for a fine, cause any water fittings belonging to or used by that person which are not in accordance with the requirements of the byelaws to be repaired, replaced or altered, and shall have the like powers for recovering the expenses properly incurred by them in so doing as they have for recovering water rates.

The provisions of Part II of this Act with respect to the power of a local authority with the consent of the Minister to relax the requirements of building byelaws shall apply in relation to byelaws made under this section as they apply in relation to building byelaws.

A local authority who propose to apply to the Minister for confirmation of any byelaws made under this section shall, in addition to complying with the requirements of section two hundred and fifty of the Local Government Act, 1933—

publish in the London Gazette at least one month before the application is made notice of their intention to apply for confirmation; and
if they supply water outside their district, send at least one month before the application is made a copy of the byelaws to the local authority of every district in which any premises to which the byelaws will apply are situate.

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