{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/towns-improvement-clauses-act-1847/section-30",
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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/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Penalty for making unauthorized drains.",
  "text": "Every person not being employed for that purpose by the commissioners, who shall make any drain into any of the sewers or drains so vested in the commissioners shall forfeit . . . a sum not exceeding £25level 1 on the standard scale and the commissioners may cause such branch drain to be re-made as they think fit, and all the expence incurred thereby shall be paid by the person making such branch drain, and shall be recoverable by the commissioners as damages.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1949 (c. 101), Sch. 7 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "“level 1 on the standard scale” substituted (E.W.) for “£25” by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 31(5)(6)(9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/section/30",
    "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."
}