208 Water Supplies (out Islands)

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #4

[CH.208. 2387CHAPTER 208.

WATER SUPPLIES (OUT ISLANDS).

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2. APPLICATION OF ACT.

3. INTERPRETATION.

4. MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING SYSTEM, AND FUTURE EXTENSION.

5. POWER TO EXCAVATE AND LAY PIPES.

6. POWER TO OPEN UP STREETS, ETC.

7. POWER TO ENTER UPON LAND OR PREMISES AND MAKE EXCAVATIONS.

8. GENERAL POWER TO ENTER UPON LAND OR PREMISES.

9. APPEAL TO MINISTER.

   Plumbing Fixtures.

10. No UNAUTHORISED PERSON TO CONSTRUCT, ETC.

11. AUTHORITY TO ALTER OR REPAIR.

12. LIABILITY OF AUTHORISED PERSON.

13. WITHDRAWAL AND CANCELLATION OF AUTHORITY.

    Water-Supply System.

14. SUPPLY OF WATER.

15. POWER TO REQUIRE OWNER TO CONNECT BUILDING WITH WATER-SUPPLY SYSTEM.

16. POWER TO CUT OFF WATER-SUPPLY.

17. POWER TO ENTER PREMISES 18. DAMAGE TO PROPERTY OF MINISTER.

    Miscellaneous.

19. WILFUL DAMAGE.

20. EXEMPTION OF MINISTER'S PROPERTY FROM DISTRESS.

21. GENERAL PENALTY.

22. RULES.

23. EXPENSES.

    SCHEDULE.

    PLACES TO WHICH WATER SHALL BE SUPPLIED.

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    [CH.208.

    CHAPTER 208.

    WATER SUPPLIES (OUT ISLANDS).

    AN ACT TO REGULATE AND CONTROL PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES IN THE OUT ISLANDS.

    [28th May 1953.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Water Supplies (Out Islands) Act.

2. -(1) This Act shall apply to any place mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

   (2) It shall be lawful for the Governor by Order to add to or delete from the list of places in the Schedule to this Act.

3. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'district' means and includes any area in an Out Island district or part of an Out Island district to which the water-supply system extends or shall from time to time be extended;

   'Minister' means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the administration of this Act;

   'new premises' means any premises (as hereinafter defined) erected after the commencement of this Act or any premises which have been taken down to an extent exceeding one-half of their cubic measure and re-erected after the commencement of this Act;

   'owner' includes the owner of any premises, and the receiver, attorney, agent, manager, guardian or committee of any such owner, and the master or agent of a ship or vessel used in navigation;

   'person' includes joint tenants and tenants in common;

   'premises' includes any dwelling-house, hotel, 26 of 1953.

   53 of 1959.

   15 of 1963.

   G.N. 7 (2) of 1964.

   Short title.

   Application of Act.

   Schedule.

   Interpretation.

   G.N. 7 (2) of 1964.

   15 of 1963, s. 2.

   shop, office, or other place of business, together with its appurtenances;

   'rules' means rules made under ithis Act;

   'sanitary-fixture' includes any bath, bidet, drinking fountain, lavatory, sink, laundry-tray, water-closet, urinal, cistern, flushing-tank, floor-drain, trap, vent, piping or other appliance used for;the collection and conveyance of sewage or fluid house refuse to the house-sewer, or the venting thereof;

   'service pipe or main' means any pipe line of the water-supply system controlled by the Minister and intended for the distribution of water in a district;

   'street' includes any square, court, alley, highway, lane, road, thoroughfare, public passage or place;

   'water-supply system' includes iany reservoir,,dam, tank, well, tunnel, conduit, pipe, fount'ain, sluice, valve, pump or engine, and any building, structure or appliance used or constructed for the supply, storage, conveyance, measurement or regulation of water, whichlis used or constructed for the supply of water.

4. The Minister shall maintain the existing watersupply system within any district, and may from time to time extend the same into, through, across, under or over any street or Crown Land, or (subject to the provisions hereinafter contained) any land whatsoever situate within that district.

5. A person authorised by...