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§ 6.—Water Supply and Water Service.
Metropolitan Water Board.
Number of Notices, as to houses from which water has been cut off:—
1.—Demolition 38
2.—Empty 32
3.—Leakage 22
4.—Non-payment of Rates 4
5.—No statement 4
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A communication was received dated the 20th July, 1907, from the Clerk
of the Metropolitan Water Board saying that the Board would be obliged by
the co-operation of the Officers of the Borough Council in directing the
attention of the Board to infringements of the Regulations made under the
Metropolis Water Act, 1871, to the mutual advantage of the Public Health of
the Borough and of the Board, and enclosing a copy of the Regulations.
For the guidance of the Council and of the Officers the Statutory Provisions,
the Regulations, and the By-laws concerning Water Supply and Water service
are set out below.
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
Section 41 (1) An occupied house without a proper and sufficient supply of
water shall be a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act,
and, if it is a dwelling-house, shall be deemed unfit for human habitation.
(2) A house which after the commencement of this Act is newly erected, or
is pulled down to or below the ground floor and rebuilt shall not be occupied
as a dwelling-house until the Sanitary Authority have certified that it has a
proper and sufficient supply of water, either from a water company or by some
other means.
(3) If the Sanitary Authority refuse such Certificate, or fail to give it within
one month after written request for the same from the owner of the house, the
owner of the house may apply to a petty sessional Court, and that court after
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.