Rivers Pollution Prevention (Border Councils) Act 1898
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1898 c. 34 |
Rivers Pollution Prevention (Border Councils) Act, 1898.
(61 & 62 Vict.) CHAPTER 34.
An Act to enable the County Councils on either side of the Border to act together for the Prevention of the Pollution of Rivers.
[2nd August 1898]
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, as follows:
1 Provision for enforcement of 39 & 40 Vict. c. 75. in border counties.
1. Where a river or any tributary thereof is situate partly in England and partly in Scotland, the Local Government Board for England and the Secretary for Scotland, by Provisional Order made on the application of the council of any of the counties concerned, may together constitute a joint committee or other body representing all or any of the counties through or by which such river or any specified portion or tributary thereof passes, and may confer on such committee or body all of the powers of a sanitary authority under the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876, or such of them as may be specified in the order; and the order may contain such provisions respecting the constitution and proceedings of the said committee or body as may seem proper, and may provide for the payment of the expenses of such committee or body by the counties represented by it, and for the audit of the accounts of such committee or body and their officers.
2 Application of 38 & 39 Vict c. 55. s. 297.
2. Section two hundred and ninety-seven of the Public Health Act, 1875 (which relates to the making, of Provisional Orders by the Local Government Board), shall apply for the purposes of this Act as if the same was herein re-enacted, and in terms made applicable thereto, but with the substitution for the words ‘Local Government Board’ of the words ‘Local Government Board for England and Secretary for Scotland.’
3 Interpretation of ‘county.’
3. In this Act the term ‘county’ means, as regards England, an administrative county, and includes a county borough, and means, as regards Scotland, a county or burgh as defined by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889.
4 Short title.
4. This Act may be cited as theRivers Pollution Prevention (Border Councils) Act, 1898.
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