Central Water Authority (Water Supply for Domestic Purposes) Regulations 1992

GN 122/1992

In force 15 August 1992

Abstract


These regulations may be cited as the Central Water Authority (Water Supply for Domestic Purposes) Regulations 1992.


Every person who is the owner or occupier of a property and who wishes to have water supplied to that property for domestic purposes shall make a written application to the Authority in the form set out in the First Schedule. The Authority shall require the applicant to furnish such further information including site plans, Identity Card and documents, as it may require; and cause the property to be inspected.

Where the Authority has agreed to supply the said property and has notified the applicant it shall provide and set up, at the consumer's expense, a communication pipe which shall remain the Authority’s property; and the consumer shall provide and set up, at his own expense, a supply pipe approved by the Authority.

Where an applicant fails to comply with paragraph (3) (b) within six months from the date of issue of the notice of agreement, he shall be deemed to have abandoned his application.

The flow of water supplied to every consumer shall be measured by a meter.

No alteration, extension or repair shall be made to a communication pipe except by the Authority.


A consumer who has been issued with a bill for water charges and waste water fee or rate shall subject to paragraph (7) pay for it within twenty-one days and any payment made thereafter shall include a surcharge of ten per cent.
For the purposes of sections 20(m) and 21A of the Act and section 25 of the Wastewater Management Authority Act, the Authority shall issue a single bill for any claim of water charges and waste water fee or rate.

Added by [GN No. 4 of 2004]

(1) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse-

(a) abstracts, consumes or uses water from the water works;

(b) tampers or interferes with, damages or destroys any installation or device set up by the Authority in connection with the supply of water from the water works.

shall commit an offence.

(2) Any person who-

(a) without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, opens or closes any cock, valve or sluice in the water works;

(b) does or causes to do any act which is likely to impede the flow of water or to pollute water or render it unfit for use of consumption in the water works;

(c) trespasses on any land held by the Authority for the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of these regulations and on or near which a notice giving adequate warning to trespassers has been posted,

shall commit an offence.


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