Content Page: Model Building By Laws

  • Sewage Lifts

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    (1) Where a sanitary fitting is below the level of a public sewer, or is at a level which is not sufficient to secure a self-cleansing velocity of flow to such sewer, or where, in the opinion of the local authority, there is a risk of back-flow in the event of such sewer becoming surcharged,…

  • Drainage For Stables, etc.

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    The sewerage from stables, cowsheds, dairies, market-places, abattoirs, area for washing vehicles and other places of a like nature shall be connected to a public sewer or, if such is not available, to private treatment and disposal plants or to conserving-tanks, and, in addition, the following requirements shall be complied with— a) provision shall be…

  • Connexion Of Private Drains To Public Drains Prohibited

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    No person shall cause or permit any private drain to communicate with any public drain, and no person shall cause or permit any spring-water, sub-soil-water, surface-water or storm-water to flow into any public drain except with the permission of, and subject to conditions laid down by, the local authority.

  • Rain-Water Gutters And Down-Pipes

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    (1) The roof of every building shall have proper rain-water gutters and down-pipes constructed in either: a) galvanized sheet steel not less than 0,55 millimetre in thickness; or b) aluminium or aluminium alloy not less than 0,7 millimetre in thickness; or c) copper not less than 0,7 millimetre in thickness; or d) asbestos-cement not less…

  • Size Of Private Drains

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    No private drain shall have a diameter of less than 100 millimetres, but the local authority may require the construction of large private drains where it considers it necessary so to do.

  • Connexions With Down-Pipes Prohibited

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    No rain-water down-pipe shall be used as a waste-pipe, soil-pipe or vent-pipe, nor shall any waste-pipe, soil-pipe or vent-pipe be used as a rain-water down-pipe.

  • Built-In Pipes For Rain-Water

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    All rain-water down-pipes, if built in so as to be inaccessible, shall be of cast iron which has been effectively proofed against corrosion, or of screwed, galvanized mild steel, U.P.V.C. or other approved pressure-piping capable of withstanding a hydraulic head equal to twice the height of the pipe.

  • Storm-Water Not To Flow Into Sewers And Septic Tanks

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    (1) No person shall cause or permit any spring-water, subsoil-water, surface-water or storm-water, or any drain, to discharge or flow into any sewer except with the prior written permission, or by direction shall be subject to the conditions, inter alia, that any such spring-water, subsoil-water, surface-water, storm-water or drain shall discharge into a trapped gully…

  • Sewage Not To Flow Into Drains Or Storm-Water Channels

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    (1) No person shall cause or permit any sewage or trade effluent, or any private sewer, to discharge into or communicate with any private or public drain or open storm-water channel. (2) No person shall cause or permit to be discharged into any private drain, public drain or open storm-water channel any liquid, substance or…

  • Discharge From Swimming -Baths

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    (1) No water shall be discharged directly or in-directly from a swimming-bath into a sewer unless written permission to do so shall first have been obtained from the local authority. (2) Any such written permission shall be subject to such conditions as the local authority shall determine, including, in particular, a condition that the permission…