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6.—No house supplied with water by the Company shall have any connexion
with the pipes or other fittings of any other premises, except in the
case of groups or blocks of houses, referred to in the preceding Regulation.
7.— The connexion of every communication pipe with any pipe of the
Company shall hereafter be made by means of a sound and suitable brass
screwed ferrule or stop-cock with union, and such ferrule or stop-cock shall
be so made as to have a clear area of water-way equal to that of a half-inch
pipe. The connexion of every "communication pipe" with the pipes of the
Company shall be made by the Company's workmen, and the Company shall
be paid in advance the reasonable costs and charges of and incident to the
making of such connexion.
8.—Every "communication pipe" and every pipe external to the house and
through the external walls thereof, hereafter respectively laid or fixed, in connexion
with the water of the Company, shall be of lead, and every joint thereof
shall be of the kind called a "plumbing" or "wiped" joint.
9.—No pipe shall be used for the conveyance of, or in connexion with, water
supplied by the Company, which is laid or fixed through, in, or into any drain,
ashpit, sink, or manure-hole, or through, in, or into any place where the water
conveyed through such pipe may be liable to become fouled, except where such
drain, ashpit, sink, or manure-hole, or other such place shall be in the unavoidable
course of such pipe, and then in every such case such pipe shall be passed
through an exterior cast-iron pipe or jacket of sufficient length and strength,
and of such construction as to afford due protection to the water-pipe.
10.—Every pipe hereafter laid for the conveyance of, or in connexion with
water supplied by the Company, shall when laid in open ground, be laid at
least two feet six inches below the surface, and shall in every exposed situation
be properly protected against the effects of frost.
11.—No pipe for the conveyance of, or in connexion with, water supplied by
the Company, shall communicate with any cistern, butt, or other receptacle
used or intended to be used for rain water.
12.—Every "communication pipe" for the conveyance of water to be
supplied by the Company into any premises shall have at or near its point of
entrance into such premises, and if desired by the consumer within such
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.