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execution of this Act; or, as to the expediency of altering or
repealing such regulations, or of making new regulations, in conformity
with such requests as aforesaid, and on the report of such
person the Local Government Board may make such regulations
repeal or alteration as they think fit."
"No regulation, and no repeal or alteration of any regulation, has any
force or effect unless and until the same be submitted to and confirmed
by the Local Government Board (sec. 22), and no Company
is bound to continue to supply water to any premises unless the
regulations are duly observed in respect of such premises"
(section 24).
In more than one of my monthly reports I drew your Vestry's
attention to the questions raised by the Water Acts and the
regulations. I pointed out that if nothing more were to be gained
by a revision of the regulations, a boon of incalculable magnitude
would be conferred on the Metropolis if the 14th regulation
were so altered as to compel the Companies (under heavy
penalties for default) to abolish waste-pipes. I urged the desirability
of Nuisance Authorities having co-ordinate power with
the Companies to put in force such of the regulations as have a
sanitary bearing,and recommended that application be made in the
mode prescribed by section 19 (supra) for an alteration of regulation
14. I also recommended that the attention of the Local
Government Board be directed to the need of further legislation
to confer on the Nuisance Authority the power just
mentioned, and to take away the power the Companies now have
to cut off water from premises, substituting therefor such
other powers to enable the Companies to recover rates, or make
good fittings, &c., as to their wisdom should seem sufficient and
equitable.
Your Vestry referred my repot ts to the Works, Sanitary,
and General Purposes Committee, who, after much consideration
of the subject, reported as follows —
(a) That the Water Companies should be requested, if they are not
by law required, to give the Vestry notice in every case when
they have cut off the supply of water from inhabited premises,
from whatever cause.