WATERWORKS.
No. 16 of 1903.
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(ii) in the case of a tenement which is rated, any quantity of water ascertained by meter as having been used in such tenement in excess of a quarterly allowance which, at forty cents per thousand gallons, would be equal to one-half per cent. of the annual rateable value of the said tenement;
(iii) in the case of hospitals or charitable institutions, any quantity of water ascertained by meter as having been used in excess of twenty gallons or fifteen gallons per head per day respectively:
(b) "Gathering ground" means any surface of land or otherwise which collects the rainfall for the purposes of the waterworks.
(c) "General rates" mean rates determined pursuant to Ordinance the Rating Ordinance, 1901, or by any resolution of the Legislative Council under section 31 of that Ordinance. No. 6 of 1901.
(d) "Meter" means any appliance used to measure, ascertain, or regulate the amount of water taken or used from the waterworks by means of any service, as well as any orifice or gauge or other appliance used in estimating the flow of water in or from any part of the waterworks.
(e) "Owner" means the holder of any tenement direct from the Crown whether under lease, licence, or otherwise, or the immediate landlord of any tenement, or the agent of any such holder or landlord who is absent or under disability, or if there is no such agent the occupier of the tenement.
(f) "Principal main" means any other than a rider-main.
"Public fountain" means any fountain, stand-post, valve, tap, or appliance used or intended to be used for or in connexion with the supply of water to the public from the waterworks, and erected or hereafter to be erected by the Water Authority, and which is the property of the Government.
(h) "Rider-main" means any main within a rider-main district so arranged as to facilitate the control by the Water Authority of the water supply to any tenement or tenements.
(2) "Rider-main district" means any district defined by the Governor in Council as a district within which the water supply is to be controlled by means of rider-mains,