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25.—No bath supplied with water by the Company shall have any overflow
waste-pipe, except it he so arranged as to act as a "warning-pipe."
26.—In every bath hereafter fitted or fixed the outlet shall be distinct from
and unconnected with, the inlet or inlets; and the inlet or inlets must be placed
so that the orifice or orifices shall be above the highest water level of the bath.
The outlet of every such bath shall be provided with a perfectly water-tight
plug, valve, or cock.
27.—No alteration shall be made in any fittings in connection with the
supply of water by the Company without two days' previous notice in writing
to the Company.
28.—Except with the written consent of the Company, no cock, ferrule,
joint, union, valve, or other fitting, in the course of any "communication
pipe," shall have a waterway of less area than that of the "communication
pipe," so that the waterway from the water in the district pipe or other
supply pipe of the Company up to and through the stop valve prescribed by
Regulation No. 12 shall not in any part be of less area than that of the "communication
pipe" itself, which pipe shall not be of less than a half-inch bore
in all its course.
29.—All lead "warning-pipes" and other lead pipes of which the ends are
open, so that such pipes cannot remain charged with water, may be of the
following minimum weights, that is to say—
½ inch (internal diameter) 3 lbs. per yard.
¾ „ „ 5 „
1 „ „ 7„
70.—In these regulations the term "communication pipe" shall mean the
pipe which extends from the district pipe or other supply pipe of the
Company up to the "stop-valve" prescribed in the Regulation No. 12.
31.—Every person who shall wilfully violate, refuse, or neglect to comply
with, or shall wilfully do or cause to be done any act, matter, or thing, in
contravention of these Regulations, or any part thereof, shall, for every such
offence, be liable to a penalty in a sum not exceeding £5.
32.—Where under the foregoing Regulations any act is required or
authorised to be done by the Company, the same may be done on behalf of the
Company by an authorised officer or servant of the Company, and where under
such regulations any notice is required to be given by the Company the same
shall be sufficiently authenticated if it be signed by an authorised officer or
servant of the Company.
33.—All existing fittings, which shall be sound and efficient, and are not
required to be removed or altered under these Regulations, shall be deemed to
be prescribed fittings under the "Metropolis Water Act, 1871."
By-Laws.
Made by the London County Council under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, Section 39 (1).