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Suction 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 Nuisance
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 connection 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 „ „
3/4 „ „
1 „ „
1¼ „ „
Weight of
Pipe in lbs,
per
lineal yard.
5 lbs. per lineal yard.
6 „ „
7½ „ „
9 „ „
12 „ „
16 „ „
3.—Every pipe hereafter laid or fixed in the interior of any dwellinghouse
for the conveyance of, or in connexion with, the water of the Company,
must, unless with the consent of the Company, if in contact with the ground,
be of lead, but may otherwise be of lead, copper, or wrought iron, at the option
of the consumer.
4.—No house shall, unless with the permission of the Company in writing,
be hereafter fitted with more than one "communication pipe."
5.—Every house supplied with water by the Company (except in cases of
stand pipes) shall have its own separate "communication pipe." Provided
that, as far as is consistent with the special Acts of the Company, in the case
of a group or block of houses, the water-rates of which are paid by one
owner, the said owner may, at his option, have one sufficient communication
for such group or block.