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hearing or giving the Sanitary Authority an opportunity to be heard may, if
they think the certificate ought to have been granted, make an order authorising
the occupation of the house; but, unless such order is made, an owner who
occupies or permits to be occupied, the house as a dwelling-house without such
certificate, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds, and to a fine not
exceeding twenty shillings for every day during which it is so occupied, until
a proper and sufficient supply of water is provided; but the imposition of such
fine shall be without prejudice to any proceedings for obtaining a closing
order.
Section 2 (1) For the purposes of this Act—
(f) Any such absence from premises of water fittings as is a nuisance
by virtue of Section 33 of the Metropolis Water Act, 1871, set out
in the First Schedule of this Act.
Section 4 (3) Provided that—
(d) Where the nuisance is such absence of water fittings as is declared
a nuisance by Section 33 of the Metropolis Water Act, 1871, (set
out in the first Schedule of this Act), such absence shall be deemed
to render the premises unfit for human habitation unless and until
the contrary is shown to the satisfaction of the Court.
Schedule 1.—Section 33 of the Metropolis Water Act, 1871.—Absence of
proper water fittings in premises to be a nuisance. The absence in respect of
any premises of the prescribed fittings after the prescribed time shall be a
nuisance within Section 11 and Sections 12—19 (inclusive) of the Nuisances
Removal Act for England, 1855, and within all provisions of the same or any
other Act applying, amending, or otherwise relating to those sections, and
that nuisance, if in any case proved to exist, shall be presumed to be such as
to render the premises unfit for human habitation within Section 13 of the
Nuisances Removal Act for England, 1855, unless and until the contrary is
shown to the satisfaction of the Justices acting under that Section.
Regulations made under the Metropolis Water Act, 1871.
Reg. 1.—No "communication pipe" for the conveyance of water from the
waterworks of the Company into any premises shall hereafter be laid until
after the point or place at which such "communication pipe" is proposed to
be brought into such premises shall have had the approval of the Company.
2.—No lead pipe shall hereafter be laid or fixed in or about any premises
for the conveyance of or in connexion with the water supplied by the
Company (except when and as otherwise authorised by these regulations, or
by the Company), unless the same shall be of equal thickness throughout, and
of at least the weight following, that is to say —
Internal
Diameter
of pipe
in inches.
3/8 inch diameter.
½ ,, ,,
5/8 ,, ,,
¾ ,, ,,
1¼ ,, ,,
Weight of
Pipe in lbs.
per
lineal yard.
5 lbs. per lineal yard.
6
7½ „ „
9
12
16