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14.—No overflow or waste-pipe other than a "warning-pipe" shall be
attached to any cistern supplied with water by the Company, and every such
overflow or wastepipe existing at the time when these regulations come into
operation shall be removed, or at the option of the consumer shall be converted
into an efficient "warning pipe," within two calendar months next after the
Company shall have given to the occupier, or left at the premises in which
such cistern is situated, a notice in writing requiring such alteration to be made.
15.—Every "warning pipe" shall be placed in such a situation as will admit
of the discharge of the water from such "warning pipe" being readily ascertained
by the officers of the Company. And the position of such "warningpipe"
shall not be changed without previous notice to and approved by the
Company.
16.—No cistern buried or excavated in the ground shall be used for the
storage or reception of water supplied by the Company, unless the use of such
cistern shall be allowed in writing by the Company.
17.—No wooden receptacle without a proper metallic lining shall be hereafter
brought into use for the storage of any water supplied by the Company.
18.—No draw-tap shall in future be fixed unless the same shall be sound and
suitable and of the "screw-down" kind.
19.—Every draw-tap in connection with any "stand-pipe" or other apparatus
outside any dwelling-house in a court or other public place, to supply any
group or number of such dwelling-houses, shall be sound and suitable, and of
the "waste-preventer" kind, and be protected as far as possible from injury
by frost, theft, or mischief.
20.—Every boiler, urinal, and watercloset in which water supplied by the
Company is used (other than waterclosets in which hand flushing is employed)
shall, within three months after these regulations come in operation, be served
only through a cistern or service-box and without a stool-cock, and there shall
be no direct communication from the pipes of the Company to any boiler,
urinal, or watercloset.
21. —Every watercloset-cistern or watercloset service-box hereafter fitted or
fixed in which water supplied by the Company is to be used 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.
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.
23.—Every "down-pipe" hereafter fixed for the discharge of water into the
pan or basin of any water-closet 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.
24.—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.