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for water supplied by meter, because it was intended to
introduce a new charge for excess consumption which would have exceeded that maximum. As explained above, the
For
proposed regulations will not now be made, at least for the present. In the second place it gives the Governor in Council a wide power to make regulations for the purposes of controlling supplies from the public fountains, and the persons who resort to the public fountains. example, in a time of shortage such as the present, it might be desirable to assign particular public fountains to particular blocks of buildings and to exclude persons from
It might also be desirable to introduce
rationing. It might also be desirable to
outside areas.
some system of
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give powers to police officers and others who might be
stationed at public fountains.
Such a scheme was in fact
worked out, and regulations to enable
it to be carried out
were made under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922,
on the 18th July, as the matter then seemed to be very
urgent.
9.
Section 6 to 12, both inclusive, of this Ordinance
amend the various penalties under the principal Ordinance.
Some of the penalties in the principal Ordinance appeared to be too small. For example, the maximum penalty for wilful waste of water was only $25. In the second place,
the maximum penalties seemed to be unnecessarily The amending sections of this Ordinance make penalty in every case $250, which is now the standard
maximum for summary offences. daily penalty is provided in the principal Ordinance this
varied.
the maximum
In the two cases where a
Ordinance makes the maximum $25 a day.
10.
Section 13 of this Ordinance gives power to make the
proposed temporary abolition of the "free allowance" apply to the current quarter, and it makes it clear that what is