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Penalities

for breaches not provided

for.

Water authority

may be

represented

by an

authorized

officer.

Penalties

do not

prejudice powers of water

authority.

Regulations to be made by Governor in Council.

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(b) Every person who bathes, washes his person or enters in any part or any water of the waterworks, or washes, throws or causes to enter therein any creature, alive or dead, or any thing, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

27. Every breach of this Ordinance or any regulation thereunder for which no penalty is by this Ordinance otherwise expressly provided shall be punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

28. In any complaint or proceedings under this Ordin- ance the water authority may be represented by an authorized officer.

29. No fine or punishment imposed under this Ordinance or any regulation thereunder shall affect or prejudice the powers of the water authority under section 5 of this Ordin-

ance.

Regulations

30. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of all or any of the following matters:

(1) the forms of all notices required to be given or sent under this Ordinance and the issuing and service thereof;

(2) the time and place for the payment of all moneys due under this Ordinance;

(3) the right of the water authority to fix the amount of and to demand deposits from consumers;

(4) the amounts of all or any fees;

(5) the price of water for all purposes;

(6) the grant and amounts of free allowances of water to approved hospitals, charitable institutions or other premises;

(7) the fixing of meters, the amount of meter rents and the ascertaining of the consumption at any premises;

(8) the notification of restriction or suspension of the water supply;

(9) the disconnexion of the water supply to a consumer;

(10) the licensing of plumbers to carry out the construc- tion, alteration and repair of inside and fire services;

(11) the standards required for pipes and fittings to be used on inside and fire services;

(12) the conditions governing the construction, alteration and repair of inside services;

(13) the conditions governing the construction, alteration and repair of fire services;

(14) notification to consumers that an existing inside or fire service is defective or not up to standard;

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