the Ordinance
for regulating
the supply of Water in this Colony, exempting the Crown from the provisions of the Ordinance might endanger the whole
working of the Ordinance.
2.
I am to invite your attention to the difference in the Bill between Domestic and Non-domestic supply, and to point out
Enclosure 3.
Copy of a Minute by Hon: O. Chadwick.
Act. Col.
Jecty.
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The Commanding Engineer appears to have overlooked the Definition Clause. Non-domestic Supply.
The Ordinance has been fully modified so that it is scarcely possible to trace all the objections raised.
I have pointed out that the Military Establishments come under the provisions dealing with the latter.
I have, however, seen any Water-works Act in England in which exemption was made in favour of the Crown.
Clauses 12 and 13 remain, in my opinion, crucial. The Govt must be authorised to insist that there is no appliance attached to a service which will damage