{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-scotland-act-1968/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-scotland-act-1968/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/47",
  "legislation_title": "Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-scotland-act-1968",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Power of local authority to close or alter public sewers etc.",
  "text": "Scottish Water may, if it thinks fit, close, alter, replace or remove any sewer , SUD system , sewage treatment works or other works vested in it by virtue of this Act or of the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), but, before any person who is lawfully using the sewer , system or works for any purpose is deprived by Scottish Water of that use, it shall provide a sewer , SUD system or works equally effective for that use and shall at its expense carry out any work necessary to connect his drain or private sewer , system with the sewer or works so provided.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 2 (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 9(a) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 inserted (30.11.2007) by Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 3), s. 38(1), Sch. 3 para. 6(a); S.S.I. 2007/512, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 4 substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 9(b) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 75(5)(b); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 9(c) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 4 inserted (30.11.2007) by Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 3), s. 38(1), Sch. 3 para. 6(b); S.S.I. 2007/512, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 4 (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 4 substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 9(d) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in s. 4 substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 9(e) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 applied with modifications (1.4.1992) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 45(10); S.I. 1992/266, art. 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/47/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:46.387476+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}