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premises, a sound and suitable stop-valve of the screw-down kind, with an area
of waterway not less than that of a half inch pipe, and not greater than that
of the " communication pipe," the size of the valve within these limits being
at the option of the consumer.
If placed in the ground such "stop valve" shall be protected by a proper
cover and " guard-box."
13. Every cistern used in connexion with the water supplied by the Company
shall be made and at all times maintained water-tight, and be properly
covered and placed in such a position that it may be inspected and cleansed.
Every such existing cistern, if not already provided with an efficient " balltap,"
and every such future cistern shall be provided with a sound and suitable
"ball-tap" of the valve kind for the inlet of water.
14. No overflow or waste-pipe other than a "warning-pipe" shall be
attached to any cistern supplied with water by the Company, and every such
overflow or wastepipe existing at the time when these regulations come into
operation shall be removed, or at the option of the consumer shall be converted
into an efficient " warning-pipe," within two calendar months next after the
Company shall have given to the occupier, or left at the premises in which
such cistern is situated, a notice in writing requiring such alteration to be made.
15 Every " warning-pipe " shall be placed in such a situation as will admit
of the discharge of the water from such " warning-pipe" being readily ascertained
by the officers of the Company. And the position of such "warningpipe"
shall not be changed without previous notice to and approved by the
Company.
16. No cistern buried or excavated in the ground shall be used for the
storage or reception of water supplied by the Company, unless the use of such
cistern shall be allowed in writing by the Company.
17. No wooden receptacle without a proper metallic lining shall be hereafter
brought into use for the storage of any water supplied by the Company.
18. No draw-tap shall in future be fixed unless the same shall be sound and
suitable and of the " screw-down." kind."
19. Every draw-tap in connection with any "stand-pipe" or other apparatus
outside any dwelling-house in a court or other public place, to supply any
group or number of such dwelling-houses, shall be sound and suitable, and of
the "waste-preventer" kind, and be protected as far as possible from injury
by frost, theft, or mischief.
20. Every boiler, urinal, and watercloset in which water supplied by the
Company is used (other than waterclosets in which hand flushing is employed)
shall, within three months after these regulations come into operation, be served
only through a cistern or service-box and without a stool-cock, and there shall
be no direct communication from the pipes of the Company to any boiler, urinal,
or watercloset.
21. Every watercloset-cistern or watercloset-servicebox hereafter fitted or
fixed in which water supplied by the Company is to be used shall have an
efficient waste-preventing apparatus, so constructed as not to be capable of
discharging more than two gallons of water at each flush.