Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948

Combined drains.

11.—(1) A combined drain shall, for the purposes of the Acts, be deemed to be a drain and not to be a sewer.

(2) Every combined drain which was, immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act, vested in a sanitary authority by virtue of section 15 of the Act of 1878 shall, on such commencement, cease to be so vested.

(3) Nothing in subsection (2) of this section shall be construed as entitling any person to terminate, prevent, or interfere with the drainage by means of a combined drain of any land or premises drained immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act by that drain.