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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5₪| JULY, 1896.
Deduction of water rate
from quarterly payments,
Water
account.
Application
thereof.
Reserve Fund. &c.
Power to enter sendments to inspect ser- vicus, &c.
Power to suspend, o. supply of water.
shall be kept in repair by the Water Authority. If such owner or occupier declines or neglects to enter into such agreement for a period exceeding fourteen days from the date of the notice, or such extended period as may be con- ceded by the Water Authority in writing it shall be lawful for the Water Authority to disconnect the service of the said tenement from the waterworks.
15. From the quarterly payment in the last preceding section mentioned there, shall be deducted a sum equal to three-quarters per cent. of the annual rating valuation of the tenement to which such non-domestic supply is served, and of any premises in the same curtilage to which no water is supplied.
16. All moneys received under authority of this Ordinance shall be carried to the credit of an account which shall be kept by the Water 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 with the consent of the Governor in 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 dam- age to any service or meter therein and any- thing in connection there with 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 make additions under sub-section 2 shall not be exercised, uuless 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 wherever 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 con- nection 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 duc under this Ordinance or any Regulations or bye-laws made hereunder from the occupier or owner of any tenement, or so long as such de- fault continues, or at the request of the owner of the tenement, or
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