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Paragraph 3.7 Wastewater drainageF1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Every wastewater drainage system serving a building must be designed and constructed in such a way as to ensure the removal of wastewater from the building without threatening the health and safety of the people in and around the building, and–

(a)

that facilities for the separation and removal of oil, fat, grease and volatile substances from the system are provided;

(b)

that discharge is to a public sewer or public wastewater treatment plant, where it is reasonably practicable to do so; and

(c)

where discharge to a public sewer or public wastewater treatment plant is not reasonably practicable that discharge is to a private wastewater treatment plant or septic tank.

Limitation

Standard 3.7(a) does not apply to a dwelling.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Schs. 1-6 substituted (1.5.2007) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/534), regs. 1, 2(c), sch. (with regs. 3, 4)