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Maintenance definition

What does Maintenance mean? Maintenance describes financial support paid by one person to a current or former spouse or civil partner, or for the benefit of a child, during separation, divorce/dissolution and afterwards. It is a descriptive term used across family law, with statutory regimes and case law guiding its assessment and enforcement. England & Wales and Northern Ireland: spousal/civil partner maintenance is commonly termed periodical payments, including interim “maintenance pending suit”; child maintenance/child support is primarily via the Child Maintenance Service (with court jurisdiction in limited cases, including Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 and for a “child of the family”). Scotland: support during a...

Domestic septic tanks and small sewage treatment: permitting, exemptions, general binding rules, sludge management and conveyancing issues under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016 (England and Wales)

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The need for environmental protection

Septic tanks and small sewage treatment plants handle domestic sewage where properties are not linked to the mains network. In England, waste water should be directed to the public foul sewer whenever doing so is reasonable. When judging reasonableness, the Environment Agency (EA) considers relative cost, physical obstacles and environmental gains. It will typically deem connection reasonable where any boundary of the premises lies within 30 metres of a public foul sewer for a single domestic property, or within a distance calculated as 30 metres multiplied by the number of houses for multi-property developments. For premises that are not entirely domestic, the EA also applies a volume-based distance assessment. In Wales, private domestic sewage treatment within a sewered area is only allowed if connection to the public sewer is not feasible. Normally, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) treats connection as feasible where the boundary of a single property is within 30 metres of a public sewer and, for larger schemes, within 30 metres times the number of properties. Domestic sewage includes waste waters arising from...

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