What UK Water Industry Act 1991 Section 94 - General Duty to Provide Sewerage System requires
Every sewerage undertaker has a duty to provide, improve and extend a system of public sewers (whether inside or outside its area) and to cleanse and maintain those sewers and any lateral drains belonging to or vested in the undertaker so that the area is and continues to be effectually drained, and to make provision for emptying those sewers and dealing with their contents by means of sewage disposal works or otherwise. The duty must be performed having regard to trade effluent discharge obligations. The duty is enforceable under Section 18 by the Secretary of State or the Authority (Ofwat).
Pillar: Water & Environmental Resources · Authority: Parliament of the United Kingdom · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/94
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- Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56) Section 94 (General duty to provide sewerage system) subsection (1)(a): it shall be the duty of every sewerage undertaker to provide, improve and extend such a system of public sewers (whether inside its area or elsewhere) and so to cleanse and maintain those sewers 'and any lateral drains which belong to or vest in the undertaker' as to ensure that that area is and continues to be effectually drained. (legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/94)
- Water Industry Act 1991 Section 94(1)(b): duty to make provision for the emptying of those sewers and such further provision as is necessary from time to time for effectually dealing, by means of sewage disposal works or otherwise, with the contents of those sewers.
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