§ Mr. BuchanI beg to move Amendment No. 73, in page 31, line 41, after 'industry', insert 'carried on at trade premises'.
§ Mr. BuchanThis and the following Amendment are drafting Amendments which require a little comment. Their effect is to relate the definition of "trade effluent'' more clearly to the premises at which the trade or industry is carried on, and to make it clear that, in relation to 1502 any premises, "trade effluent" means effluent produced in the course of a trade or industry carried on at those premises. I believe this defines rather more clearly what is to be regarded as trade effluent in any particular circumstances. This problem was discussed in Committee.
It seems to me that the great problem is that contaminated water is still surface water and there is an obligation on the local authority to receive it into its sewers, with the caveat of proceedings under Clause 47 if it is such as to be likely to injure the sewerage system. In my view, that is the answer we want. The Amendments we are discussing, I should have thought, would make it very difficult to argue that contaminated surface water is trade effluent; and to that extent they assist towards a sensible approach to the problem of contaminated surface water.
§ Amendment agreed to.
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Further Amendment made: No. 74, in page 31, line 42, at end insert:
'and, in relation to any trade premises, means any such liquid as aforesaid which is so produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at those premises'.—[Mr. Ross.]
§ Mr. RossI beg to move Amendment No. 75, in page 31, line 45, after 'experiment', to insert:
'and the carrying on of a hospital or a nursing home'.
§ Mr. RossThis and the following two Amendments are primarily drafting Amendments designed to clarify the application of the Bill to a hospital or nursing home. The redrafted definition gives better effect to the original intention that effluent from hospitals and nursing homes should be treated in the same way as effluent from trade premises.
§ Mr. YoungerThere was a further important point which I wish to raise with the right hon. Gentleman. That is, the question of zoological gardens which may not be specifically described as either agriculture or horticulture, or under any other heading. Some concern has been expressed whether there might not be a case for the specific inclusion of zoological gardens in case they are not covered by other definitions.
§ Mr. BuchanI diligently inquired into this problem of zoological gardens and, the position seems to be perfectly all right.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendments made: No. 76, in page 32, line 2, at end insert 'or as a hospital or a nursing home'.
§ No. 77, in line 4 leave out from 'industry' to end of line 5.—[Mr. Ross.]
§ Motion made, That the Bill be now read the Third time.—[Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.]
§ Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 55 (Third Reading), and agreed to.
§ Bill accordingly read the Third time, and passed.