Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

PART 3
PLANS, EXECUTION AND TESTING OF DRAINAGE

13.   Plans and particulars to be submitted to the Sewerage Authority

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   (1)   Every person who intends to execute works of drainage in connection with a building or its curtilage including works of maintenance shall give to the Sewerage Authority notice of his or her intention in writing together with a description of the proposed works and shall as far as may be necessary to show whether the works comply with this Act, send to the Sewerage Authority at the same time a plan, in duplicate, showing the line of the proposed drains and the size, depth and inclination of each new drain, the position of each manhole, gully trap, ventilating pipe, soil pipe, waste water pipe, rain water pipe, tank, soil fitting and waste fitting and the position and level of the outfall of such drainage and, where this outfall is not a foul water sewer, details of any septic tank, watercourse or soakaway.

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   (2)   No such work shall be executed without the prior approval of the Sewerage Authority provided always that when, in consequence of an existing nuisance, the carrying out of any works of drainage is deemed by a medical officer to be a matter of urgency, such medical officer may issue a certificate authorising the owner or occupier of a building to proceed with the execution of the necessary works and shall, without delay, notify the sewerage authority that he or she has issued such a certificate if in such a case the necessary plans and particulars are submitted to the Sewerage Authority within 21 days of the issue of such a certificate and provided further that the issue of such a certificate does not in any way relieve the person carrying out such works from compliance with the issue of notices regarding testing and with the other requirements of this Act.

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   (3)   Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this section commits an offence against this Act.