1974 Ed.]
Waterworks
CHAPTER 102
WATERWORKS
To repeal and replace the Waterworks Ordinance 1938.
CAP. 102
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Originally 44 of 1974.
[1st January, 1975.]
L.N. 271/74.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Waterworks Ordinance.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires
Interpretation.
"agent" means a person who is approved under section 7 as an
agent of a communal service;
"charge" means any charge for water, any fee, the cost of repairs or other works carried out by the Water Authority under section 17, and any other charge, including a surcharge, which is payable under this Ordinance;
"communal service" means that part of a fire service or inside service which is used in common by more than one consumer in the same premises;
"connexion to the main" means the pipe between the main and the control valve which is nearest to the main and which regulates the flow of a supply from the main into a fire service or inside service, such control valve and all fittings between such control valve and the main;
"consumer" means a person who is approved under section 7 as a
consumer of a fire service or inside service; "consumption" means the supply obtained;
"deposit" means a deposit under section 19;
7. Director of Water Supply
"domestic purpose" means a purpose connected solely with the
occupation of a dwelling-house and does not include a purpose connected with a garden, lawn, playground or swimming pool appurtenant to a dwelling-house;
"fire service" means the pipes and fittings in premises, and any pipes and fittings between the premises and a connexion to the main, which are used or are intended to be used for a supply solely for the purposes of fire fighting;
"fitting" means-
(a) any apparatus, cistern, cock, equipment, machinery,
material, tank, tap and valve; and
(b) any appliance or device other than a meter,
which is installed or used in a fire service or inside service;
L.N.76/82.