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§ 6.-WATER SUPPLY AND WATER SERVICE.
Cutting off Writer Supply.—By the Metropolis Water Act, 1871, Clause 32,
it is provided that—
Where in any district any company is required or has proposed to provide a
constant supply—
If any person supplied with water by such company wilfully or negligently
causes or suffers any fittings to be out of repair, or to be used or contrived us
that the water supplied to him by such company is or is likely to be wasted,
misused, unduly consumed, or contaminated, or so as to occasion or allow the
return of foul air or other noisome or impure matter into any pipe belonging
to or connected with the pipes of such company, he shall for every such
offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds; or
If any person supplied with water by such company wrongfully does or
causes or permits to be do e anything in contravention of any of the
provisions of the special Act or this Act, or wrongfully fails to do anything
which, under any of those provisions, ought to be done for the prevention of
the waste, misuse, undue consumption, or contamination of the water of such
company, they may (without prejudice to any remedy against him in respect
thereof) cut off any of the pipes by or through which water is supplied by
them to him or for his use, and may cease to supply him with water, so long
as the cause of injury remains or is not remedied ; and in every case of so
cutting off or ceasing to supply, the company shall within twenty-four hours
thereafter give to the nuisance authority, as defined by the Sanitary Act, 1866,
notice thereof.
NOTICE TO NUISANCE AUTHORITY. SANITARY ACT, 1866.
Sanitary authorities are now substituted for nuisance authorities by sees. 14
(2) and 99 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, ante vol. i. The Sanitary
Act, 1866, is repealed and the present section must be read as if the
corresponding provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, were
therein referred to instead of the Repealed Act lb, sec. 142. Within
twenty-four hours of exercising their right of cutting off the water, the water
company is required to give notice thereof in writing to the sanitary authority.
1b. sec. 49. And see Young v. Southwark and Yauxhall Water Co., cited in
note thereto.
For further provisions as to cutting off water, see the Waterworks Clauses
Act, 1847, secs. 54, 57, and 74; the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863, sec. 16;
the Water Companies (Regulation of Powers) Act, 1887, sec. 4; the
Metropolis Water Act, 1852, sec. 25, ante; and the Middlesex Waterworks
Act, 1852, secs. 35 and 38, post.
EXTRACT FROM THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1891.
49.—Notice to sanitary authoriry of water supply being cut off.— (1) Where
a water company may lawfully cut off the water supply to any inhabited
dwelling house, and cease to supply such dwelling-house with water for nonpayment
of water rate or other cause, the company shall in every case, within
twenty-four hours after exercising the said right, give notice thereof in
writing to the sanitarv authority of the district in which the house is situated.