Section 132
Power to undertake sewerage and drainage works
of Local Authorities Ordinance, 1996
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(1)
Unless otherwise directed by the Minister, a local authority may erect, construct, equip and carry on sewerage or drainage works within or without the local authority area:
Provided that the local authority shall not—
(a)
commence to erect or construct or maintain sewerage works without the prior consent of the Permanent Secretary; and
(b)
proceed with the implementation of any drainage works without prior consultation with the Director of Irrigation and Drainage.
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(2)
For the purpose of carrying out any sewerage or drainage works the local authority may—
(a)
cause such sewers, drains and pipes to be made, laid, altered, deepened, covered over, and maintained as may be necessary for effectively disposing of the sewage or drainage of the local authority area, or any portion thereof, and from time to time cause to be made and maintained all such reservoirs, sluices, engines, ventilating shafts and other works as may be necessary for cleansing and ventilating such sewers, drains and pipes;
(b)
carry such sewers, drains or pipes through, across or under any public road, street, square or open space, or any place laid out as or intended for a public road, street, square or open space, whether within or without the local authority area, without paying compensation, and, after giving reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier of its intention to do so, perform the same acts in respect of private land within or, subject to section 135(1), without the local authority area upon making compensation for any damage done, the amount whereof shall be determined, in default of agreement, by arbitration;
(c)
from time to time alter, enlarge, divert, discontinue, close or destroy any sewers, drains or pipes under the control of the local authority;
(d)
construct any works within or, subject to section 135
(1)
, without the local authority area for the purpose of receiving, storing, disinfecting, purifying, distributing or otherwise disposing of any sewage or drainage;
(e)
in any case where, owing to the contour of the ground or for other reasons, it is difficult to connect, for sewerage purposes, any property within the local authority direct with a public sewer maintained by the local authority, the local authority may, subject to paragraph (b), make connections with and utilize any private drain on private ground so as to connect such property with any public sewer:
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Provided that, upon such connection being made, the drain with which connection is so made shall, from the point of such connection to the point of junction with the public sewer, be considered and used as a combined or joint drain, and the cost of construction, repair and maintenance of such combined or joint drain shall, as far as the same shall not fall to be borne by the local authority, be paid and borne by the owners of properties respectively served thereby, in such proportion as the local authority shall from time to time determine.