Remedy
Start free

Section 16: Notices to be given before constructing public sewers, or sewage disposal Works, outside district.

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

This provision is omitted
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

Part II: Sanitation and Buildings

OMITTED FROM CURRENT TEXT.

The text below is the provision as originally enacted. It is historical and may not include amendments made before this status change. View the enacted source.

Where a local authority, in the exercise of their powers under the last preceding section, propose to construct any public sewer or sewage disposal works outside their district, the provisions of that section with respect to notices and appeals shall apply, and the authority shall, in addition to giving any notice required by that section—

publish by advertisement in a local newspaper circulating in the district in which the proposed work is to be executed a notice describing the nature of their proposals and specifying the land in or on which they propose to execute any work, and naming a place where a plan illustrative of their proposals may be inspected at all reasonable hours by any person free of charge; and
serve, not later than the date of the publication of the advertisement, a copy of the notice on the local authority of the district in which the proposed work is to be executed.

If, within twenty-eight days after the publication of the notice referred to in the preceding subsection, notice of objection to their proposals is served on the local authority either by the local authority of the district in which the proposed work is to be executed or by any owner or occupier of land directly affected by the proposals, they shall not proceed with their proposals, unless all objections so made are withdrawn, or the Minister, after a local inquiry, has approved the proposals, either with or without modification.

The foregoing provisions of this section with respect to the publication and service of, and appeals against, such additional notices as are therein referred to shall not apply where the work which a local authority propose to carry out in the district of another local authority consists only of the construction of a public sewer in a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large and they have obtained the consent of that other local authority.

About this text

This legislation text comes from legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These source and reuse terms cover the legislation text, not Remedy's commentary.

Reuse reviewed 21 August 2026 under Open Government Licence v3.0.