In the case of a new inside service a connexion to the water- works will not be given until payment of the deposit as required on Form E has been made.
Deposits against payment of the amount due or to become due for meter rent and chargeable water will be held until the inside service has been disconnected from the waterworks by the water authority at the request of the consumer and all amounts due for meter rent and chargeable water have been paid by the consumer.
4. FEES.
The amounts of all fees payable under the regulations shall be fixed from time to time and set forth in Appendix I. Notice to pay shall be given on Form D.
5.PRICE OF WATER.
The price of water for domestic, trade, construction and shipping supplies shall be fixed from time to time and set forth in Appendix I. Notice to pay shall be given on Form B.
6. FREE ALLOWANCES OF WATER.
Free allowances of water may be granted to approved hospitals and charitable institutions, or to other approved premises, and such allowances shall be as set out from time to time in Appendix III. A quarterly return for the previous quarter of the average number of inmates including staff and servants for each hospital or charitable institution which has been granted a free allowance of water shall be submitted to the water authority on Form N, at his request. The water authority shall state on Form N a date by which this return must be submitted, and, in the event of any return not being received by such date, the hospital or institution concerned may forfeit its right to a free allowance of water.
Free allowances of water are available only for the periods for which they are stated to be given, and no hospital, institution or other recipient of a free allowance of water shall, by using less than its allowance for any one such period, receive any increased allowance for any other period.
7. METERS, METER RENTS, CONSUMPTION AND WATER ACCOUNTS.
(a) Meters will be provided and maintained by the water authority, and all repairs, except those necessitated by wilful damage or negligence, will be made by the water authority free of cost to the
consumer.
(b) The consumer shall be held solely responsible for the safe custody of the meter whilst it is fixed on the inside service supplying his premises with water, and he shall pay the cost of fixing and removing the meter.
(c) The water authority shall have the right to prescribe the size of meter or meters, and the number of meters which shall be fixed to any premises.
(d) The water authority may in his discretion change a meter at any time.
(e) Meter rents are shown in Appendix I and are payable annually in advance. Notice to pay will be given in Form C. When a meter is fixed after 1st January a proportionate rent for the period up to 31st December shall be payable in advance.
(f) in the event of the removal of a meter (otherwise than for the purpose of repair, alteration or testing) a refund equivalent to the rent for the unexpired portion of the year will be made on production of a certificate by the water authority stating the date of removal of the meter.
(g) Meters will be read at such times as the water authority may direct.
Whenever a meter is read a memorandum of the reading will be left at the premises supplied through it.
(h) For the purpose of determining the periodical consumption the first reading of the meter may be taken not more than 10 days before or after the first day of the period and the last reading of the meter
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