City of London Sewers Act 1851
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1851 c. xci |
ANNO DECIMO QUARTO & DECIMO QUINTO
VICTORLE REGIN^E
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Cap.
xci.
An Act to continue " The City of London Sewers
Act, 1848," and to alter and amend the Pro-
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visions of the said Act.
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HEREAS it is expedient to continue " The City of London
Sewers Act, 1848/' and to alter and amend some of the
Provisions
thereof:
May it therefore please Your Majesty
that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
"The City of London Sewers Act, 1848," as declared that the said
I. That so much of the Two hundred and sixty-fourth Section of So much of
Sect. 264- of
11
&
12 Vict
Act shall continue in force for Two Years next after the First Day of
c.
163.
as re-
lates
to
Con-
tinuance of
Act repealed
January then next, and thence to«the End of the then next Session
of Parliament, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
II.
That the Directions contained in the Sixty-first Section of Traps to be
" The City of London Sewers Act, 1848," with respect to the pro- iJ}^0?
viding and affixing a fit and proper Trap to the Mouth of the Drains Drains.
therein mentioned, shall extend to the providing and affixing a
fit
and
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proper
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The City of London Sewers Ac% 1851.
proper Trap to the Inlet of such Drains to the Satisfaction of the
Commissioners,
III.
That the Sixty-ninth Section of " The City of London Sewers
Sect. 69 of
11 & 12
Vict.
Act, 1848," which enacts that Dirt shall not be swept into the Sewers,
c. 163. re- 9 r
pealed.
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shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
Penalty on
Scavengers
and others
sweeping
Dirt, &c. into
Sewers.
Penalty on
Persons
permitting
Houses, &c«
to become
Nuisances
a Second
Time.
IV. That no Scavenger or other Person shall sweep, rake, or place
any Soil, Rubbish, or Filth, or any other Thing, into or in any Sewer
or Drain, or over any Grate communicating with any Sewer or Drain,
or into any Dock or Inlet communicating with the Mouth of any
Sewer or Drain, or into which any Sewer or Drain may discharge its
Contents, or into the River Thames contiguous thereto; and every
Scavenger or other Person who shall so offend shall for every such
Offence forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Five Pounds.
V. And whereas by the Seventy-seventh Section of the said recited
Act the Commissioners are authorized, in certain Cases therein men-
tioned, to make an Order for the cleansing, whitewashing, or purifying
of certain Dwelling Houses or other Buildings, and for the Removal or
Abatement of certain Nuisances: Be it enacted, That if the Commis-
sioners, in pursuance of the Provisions contained in the said Act, and
in exercise of the Power thereby given to them, shall at any Time
find it necessary to make, and shall make for the Second Time, or at
any Time subsequently, an Order for the cleansing, whitewashing, or
purifying of any Dwelling House or other Building which shall pre-
viously or by any former Order have been directed to be cleansed,
whitewashed, or purified, or for the Removal or Abatement of any
Nuisance proceeding from or existing, or committed or permitted to
exist in, upon, or under any House, Building, or Land mentioned in
any former Order, and in, upon, under, or from which any Nuisance
may have been by such former Order directed to be abated or re-
moved, the Owner or Occupier of such House or Building, if he shall
have been the Owner or Occupier of such House or Building at the
Time when by any former Order any Nuisance may have been directed
to be abated or removed therefrom, or the Person committing, causing,
or permitting such Nuisance, if he shall be the same Person who com-
mitted, caused, or permitted any former Nuisance in such House or
Building, shall forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds,
and such Penalty shall be wholly ^respective and independent of any
Matter or Thing which he may by such Order be directed or required
to do or perform, and shall be paid over and above any Costs or
Expenses (if any such shall have been incurred) to which he may be
subject or liable' in pursuance of the Provisions contained in the said
recited Act.
VI.
And
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