Clause 6

replace subsection (1) with —“(1) Every sewerage system at any premises (but not any public sewerage system) must be altered, repaired and kept in proper order at the cost and expense of the owner of the premises.(1A) Without affecting subsection (1), where the sewerage system under that subsection or any part thereof —

is connected to any other premises; and

serves the sewerage needs of the other premises,then the owner of the other premises must also at that owner’s own cost and expense alter, repair and keep in proper order the system or part thereof (as the case may be) at the premises under subsection (1).”;

in subsection (2), replace “the owner of any premises mentioned in subsection (1)” with “any of the owners of any premises mentioned in subsections (1) and (1A)”;

in subsection (2), replace paragraph (a) with —“(a)to have the sewerage system or part thereof inspected and tested in such manner and at such intervals as the Board may require, to ensure that the sewerage system or part thereof is kept in proper order;”;

in subsection (2)(b), replace “in good order the sewerage system” with “in proper order the sewerage system or part thereof”;

in subsection (3), replace “good order and condition” with “proper order”;

in subsection (3), after “premises”, insert “pursuant to section 43(2)”; and

replace subsections (4) and (5) with —“(4) The Board may, as it thinks just —

recover the costs and expenses reasonably and necessarily incurred in carrying out the works under subsection (3) from any owner of the premises mentioned in subsections (1) and (1A); or

apportion such costs and expenses among all or any of the owners of the premises mentioned in subsections (1) and (1A) and recover the sums apportioned from those owners.(5) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (1A) shall be guilty of an offence.(6) Nothing in this section prevents any owner of the premises mentioned in subsection (1) and any owner of any other premises in subsection (1A) from agreeing on an apportionment between them of any costs of altering, repairing or keeping in proper order the sewerage system or part thereof mentioned in subsection (1A); but the Board is not, for the purposes of subsection (4)(b), bound by any such agreement.”.