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Authority and be called the Water account and such moneys shall be disposed of to defray all or any of the expenses of or in connection with or for the maintenance and repair of the waterworks or for the future extension thereof or in or towards the payment of all or any sums of money expended and remaining unpaid or to be expended in respect thereof or in the payment of any existing or future loan or any portion thereof or the interest accruing thereon or for the formation of a Reserve fund for the purpose of meeting the cost of extensions of the waterworks, or if so resolved by the Legislative Council to purposes connected with sanitation.
All sums so disposed of shall be debited to the Water account, and a Balance sheet of the Water account shall be laid before the Legislative Council and published annually in the Gazette.
17. It shall be lawful for the Water Authority or any person duly authorised in writing by such Authority at any time between the hours of 6 A.M. and 6 P.M. or in case of urgency at any other time, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, to enter into and upon any tenement into or upon which any service has been laid or into or upon which water from the waterworks is supplied or flows,
(1) To inspect any service and to ascertain whether there is any waste, leakage, obstruction or damage to any service or meter therein and anything in connection therewith contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance or any Regulations or bye-laws made hereunder,
(2.) To regulate, repair, alter or make additions to any service or meter,
(3.) To read or take the register of any meter for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of water taken or used,
Provided always that the power to enter, regulate, repair or take additions under sub-section 2 shall not be exercised unless upon two hours previous notice being given to the occupier, unless he dispenses therewith.
18. It shall be lawful for the Water Authority to diminish, withhold or suspend, stop, turn off or divert the supply of water through or by means of any service or public fountain either wholly, or in part, or whenever such Water Authority may think fit and without prejudice to any water rate, meter rent or other sums due or to become due under this Ordinance or any Regulations hereunder,→
(1.) Whenever the available supply of water from the waterworks shall in the opinion of the Water Authority be insufficient, or
(2.) Whenever it may be expedient or necessary for the purpose of extending altering or repairing the waterworks or for the purpose of the connection of services, or
(3.) Whenever any public fountain is damaged or the waters thereof are polluted or wasted, and the person, by whose act neglect or default such damage, pollution or waste has occurred, cannot be found, or
(4.) If the construction or laying of any service by the owner of any tenement is not made, altered or re-adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance or any Regulations made hereunder, or
(5.) If default be made in the payment of any moneys due under this Ordinance or any Regulations or bye-laws made hereunder from the occupier or owner of any tenement, or so long as such default continues, or at the request of the owner of the tenement, or
(6.) In cases of fire, or (7.) If any act or thing be done or omitted contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, or any Regulations made hereunder, in relation to any damage, waste, pollution or abuse of the waterworks or any service, meter or public fountain.
19. All moneys other than penalties or fines payable or recoverable under this Ordinance or any Regulations made hereunder shall be recoverable at the suit of the Colonial Treasurer in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court together with interest thereon at a rate not exceeding eight per centum per annum, and any judgment given or order made shall be enforced in the same manner in which any judgment or order may be enforced in any other suit in the Supreme Court.
20. In any such suit a certificate under the hand of the Water Authority that any sum of money is due shall in the absence of evidence to the contrary be conclusive evidence of such debt and of the non-payment thereof.
21. As soon as practicable after the passing of this Ordinance the Governor shall cause the limits or areas of all gathering grounds of the then existing waterworks to be marked out and defined by boundary stones or in some conspicuous and permanent manner, and thereafter no land not then already leased by the Crown shall be granted, demised, or sold within such limits or areas for any purpose whatsoever. A map showing clearly such limits and areas shall be made, and kept for public reference in the Office of the Water Authority and a Notification of the completion of such map shall be made in the Gazette.
22. Whenever the Governor in Council decides that a gathering ground is required for the purpose of extending or augmenting the water supply of this Colony, the Water Authority shall cause the limits or area thereof to be marked out, defined and mapped as in the last preceding section and thereafter no land not then already leased by the Crown shall be granted, demised or otherwise disposed of within such limits or area for any purpose whatever except upon the express condition that such land may be resumed by the Crown at any time upon three years' notice of such intention having been first given to the owner thereof without any compensation whatever for such resumption.
23. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time, to make, alter, and repeal Regulations, for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of all or any of the following matters; that is to Say!
(1.) The price of water for non-domestic supply, such price not to exceed 25 cents per 1,000 gallons.
(2.) The method and manner in which water may be taken from the public fountains.
(3.) The amount of rent to be paid for meters.
(4.) The price to be paid for all services constructed or laid by the Water Authority.
(5.) The time mode and place for the payment of all moneys due or to become due under this Ordinance.
(6.) The suspension of the water supply.
(7.) The construction, laying, fitting, alteration or adjustment of services and the nature, quality, size and pattern thereof and of meters used therewith.
(8.) The prevention of waste of water.
(9.) The duties of the officers and servants of the Water Authority, their proper behaviour and conduct and the means of summarily enforcing the same, if necessary, by penalties not exceeding in any case $25 for neglect of duty.
(10.) The forms of all notices required to be given or sent under this Ordinance and the issuing and service thereof.
(11.) In respect of all such other matters not hereinbefore specifically mentioned as may conduce to the better and more effective carrying out of this Ordinance.
No such Regulations nor any alterations or repeal thereof shall have any force or effect until they have been published in the Gazette.
Offences and Penalties.
24. Whoever shall wilfully or negligently injure the waterworks, public fountains, services or meters, or shall unlawfully draw off, divert or take water from the same or from any streams or waters by which the waterworks are supplied, and whoever shall pollute any such water, or shall allow any foul liquid gas or other noxious or injurious matter to enter into the waterworks or any services connected therewith, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars and a further penalty not exceeding five dollars for each day whilst the offence continues.
25. Any person who shall wilfully or negligently misuse or waste or cause or allow to be misused or wasted any water passing into through or upon or near any tenement from the waterworks, shall be liable to a
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