Water Supply Act · 2023 Revised Edition · Part · Offences and Penalties
26. Offences relating to waterworks, diverting streams or misappropriating water etc.
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who, wilfully or negligently, and without the approval of the Authority —
injures or suffers to be injured the water works;
lays or causes to be laid any main, pipe or line to communicate with any main, pipe, standpipe, hydrant or line belonging to or under the management or control of the Authority without the consent of the Authority;
main
“main” means any pipe owned and maintained by the Authority, including any connection to the main;
draws off, diverts or takes water from the waterworks or from any rivers, streams or waters by which the waterworks are supplied;
waterworks
“waterworks” means all catchment areas, reservoirs, dams, weirs, tanks, cisterns, tunnels, filter beds, conduits, aqueducts, mains, pipes, meters, fountains, standpipes, sluices, valves, hydrants, pumps, prime movers and all other works, or apparatus used or constructed for the collection, storage, conveyance, supply, measurement or regulation of water and which have been constructed by or on behalf of the Government and belong to or are under the control or management of the Authority or which are used or constructed by the Authority.
interferes with or opens or shuts any valve, hydrant or stopcock belonging to the waterworks;
stopcock
“stopcock” means any stop-tap placed on the inlet of a meter and controlling the supply of water to any premises charged or chargeable separately with water rate, municipal rate, charge or rent;
supplies any other person with any water supplied to him for domestic purposes, except with the consent in writing of the
Authority, or alters or tampers with any meters supplied by the
Authority; or
attaches or fixes unauthorised hose pipes including split bamboo to public standpipes or hydrants or any private fittings,
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is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $50,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or both.
Terms defined in s 2
main
Defined · s 2“main” means any pipe owned and maintained by the Authority, including any connection to the main;
stopcock
Defined · s 2“stopcock” means any stop-tap placed on the inlet of a meter and controlling the supply of water to any premises charged or chargeable separately with water rate, municipal rate, charge or rent;
waterworks
Defined · s 2“waterworks” means all catchment areas, reservoirs, dams, weirs, tanks, cisterns, tunnels, filter beds, conduits, aqueducts, mains, pipes, meters, fountains, standpipes, sluices, valves, hydrants, pumps, prime movers and all other works, or apparatus used or constructed for the collection, storage, conveyance, supply, measurement or regulation of water and which have been constructed by or on behalf of the Government and belong to or are under the control or management of the Authority or which are used or constructed by the Authority.
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