Public Sewer

Public sewer. By the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 20, sewers, which by virtue of the section continue to be or become vested in a local authority, shall be known as public sewers, provided that a sewer constructed by a local authority after the 1st October, 1937, for draining their own property shall not be deemed public sewers for the purposes of the Act until so declared. Public sewers include combined drains which would have vested in a local authority as sewers but for some Act or statutory scheme for the construction of combined drains or order made thereunder; all sewers and sewage disposal works constructed by the local authority at their expense or acquired by them; and for other instances, see the s. See DRAIN.