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22. Every urinal-cistern in which water supplied by the Company is used,
other than public urinal-cisterns, or cisterns having attached to them a selfclosing
apparatus, 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.
2 i. Every " down-pipe " hereafter fixed for the discharge of water into the
pan or basin of any watercloset shall have an internal diameter of not less than
one inch and a-quarter, and if of lead shall weigh not less than nine pounds to
every lineal yard.
2i. No pipe by which water is supplied by the Company to any watercloset
shall communicate with any part of such closet, or with any apparatus connected
therewith, except the service-cistern thereof
25. No bath supplied with water by the Company shall have any overflow
waste-pipe, except it be so arranged as to act as a " warning-pipe."
26. In every bath hereafter fitted or fixed the outlet shall be distinct from,
and unconnected with, the inlet or inlets; and the inlet or inlets must be placed
so that the orifice or orifices shall be above the highest water level of the bath.
The outlet of every such bath shall be provided with a perfectly water-tight
plug, valve, or cock.
27. No alteration shall be made in any fittings in connexion with the supply
of water by the Company without two days' previous notice in writing to the
Company.
28. Except with the written consent of the Company, no cock, ferrule,
joint, union, valve, or other fitting, in thecourse of any "communication pipe,"
shall have a waterway of less area than that of the "communication pipe," so
that the waterway from the water in the district pipe or other supply pipe of
the Company up to and through the stop valve prescribed by Regulation No.
12 shall not in any part be of less area that that of the "communication pipe"
itself, which pipe shall not be of less than a half-inch bore in all its course.
29. All lead "warning-pipes" and other lead pipes of which the ends are
open, so that such pipes cannot remain charged with water, may be of the
following minimum weights, that is to say—
½ inch (internal diameter) 3 lbs. per yard.
¾ ,, ,, 5
1 ,, ,,7
30. In these regulations the term "communication pipe" shall mean the
pipe which extends from the district pipe or other supply pipe of the Company
up to the "stop-valve" prescribed in the Regulation No. 12.
31. Every person who shall wilfully violate, refuse, or neglect to comply
with, or shall wilfully do or cause to be done any act, matter, or thing, in
contravention of these Regulations, or any part thereof, shall, for every such
offence, be liable to a penalty in a sum not exceeding £5.
32. Where under the foregoing regulations any act is required or
authorised to be done by the Company, the same may be done on behalf of the
Company by an authorised officer or servant of the Company, and where under