Section 41: Sub-soil water and drains
consolidated text (as at 2004, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
41. Sub-soil water and drains
(1) (a) Where the Authority considers that sub-soil water is likely to enter the waste water system, it may cause sub-soil drains to be constructed
on any property.
(b) Before entering any property and carrying on the works for the
purpose of paragraph (a), the Authority shall serve on the owner or occupier
of the property a notice of its intention to carry out those works not less
than 10 days before the start of the works.
(2) Sub-soil water shall be carried off by separate pipes or channels and
discharged at such place as the Authority may direct.
(3) Where a person, on whom a notice under subsection (1) has been
served, fails to comply with that notice, the Authority may, after it has given
to that person not less than 48 hours’ notice, enter the premises and carry
out the works.
(4) The costs of the works carried out under subsection (3) shall be
borne by the person on whom notice was served.