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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-23",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/34",
  "legislation_title": "Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/23",
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  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Drainage districts to be formed, subject to approval of inspector.",
  "text": "The commissioners shall from time to time, subject to the approval of the inspector, divide the whole town or district within the limits of the special Act, if and as occasion shall require, into separate drainage districts, having regard in such division to the nature of the ground, to the main lines of sewers by which such separate drainage districts are or shall be drained, and to the equal benefit, as far as may be, of all the lands and buildings to be comprised in any such drainage district, and shall cause their surveyor to define and describe the several drainage districts on a plan of the town or district within the limits of the special Act, to be made as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:02.753043+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."
}