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(c) to ascertain the consumption; or

(d) to disconnect the inside service to any premises or to diminish, withhold or suspend, stop, turn off or divert the supply of water to any premises through or by means of any inside service either wholly or in part.

supply of

7. It shall be lawful for the water authority to Power to restrict, diminish, withhold or suspend, stop, turn off or suspend,

restrict, divert the supply of water through or by means of any main, etc., the inside service or public standpipe, either wholly or in part, water. whenever the 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, and without com- pensation for any damage or loss which may result—

(a) whenever the available supply of water from the waterworks shall in the opinion of the water authority be insufficient;

(b) whenever it may be expedient or necessary for the purpose of extending, altering, testing or repairing the waterworks or for the purpose of the connexion of inside or fire services;

(c) whenever any public standpipe is damaged or the waters thereof are polluted or wasted;

(d) in case of an outbreak of fire; or

(e) in case of a breakdown in the waterworks.

public

8. It shall be lawful for the water authority to fix Power to fix public standpipes together with the connexions to the standpipes waterworks in or over any lane or street over land held in private under lease from the Crown.

streets.

Power to

demand

9. It shall be lawful for the water authority to fix the amount of and to demand in advance deposits from consumers deposits. to cover the amount due or to become, due for meter rent and for chargeable water at any premises and for work to be carried out by the water authority at the cost of a consumer. Such deposits may be held by the Treasurer for such time as [cf. Ordin- the water authority shall direct and shall bear no interest.

Inside services.

ance No. 15 of 1930.1

and con-

services.

10. Any consumer may arrange with a licensed plum- Construction ber to construct an inside service in premises for the supply nexion of of water from the waterworks. The construction of the inside inside service and the nature, size and quality of the materials and fittings shall be in accordance with regulations made under this Ordinance and on the completion thereof to the satisfaction of the water authority it shall be connected by the water authority to the waterworks subject to payment of the charges for such connexion as laid down in such regulations and subject to the consumer giving the undertaking required by section 5:

Provided that, except when so directed by the Governor in Council, the water authority shall be under no obligation to connect with the waterworks the inside services of any premises which are more than two hundred yards from a main, or which are at an altitude higher than that to which water from the waterworks can be supplied by gravitation :