Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Part II.

SANITARY PROVISIONS.

Sewerage and Drainage.

Regulations as to Sewers and Drains.

Sewers vested in sanitary authority.

15. All existing and future sewers within the district of a sanitary authority, together with all buildings, works, materials, and things belonging thereto,

Except

(1.) Sewers made by any person for his own profit, or by any company for the profit of the shareholders; and

(2.) Sewers made and used for the purpose of draining preserving or improving land under any local or private Act of Parliament, or for the purpose of irrigating land; and

(3.) Sewers under the authority of any commissioners of sewers appointed by the Crown,

shall vest in and be under the control of such sanitary authority:

Provided, that sewers within the district of a sanitary authority which have been or which may hereafter be constructed by or transferred to some other sanitary authority, or by or to a sewage board or other authority empowered under any Act of Parliament to construct sewers, shall (subject to any agreement to the contrary) vest in and be under the control of the authority who constructed the same or to whom the same have been transferred.