Water Supply Act · 2023 Revised Edition · Part · Administration and General Powers of Authority
9. Power to lay water mains etc.
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Authority may make, construct and provide such mains and other waterworks as may be necessary for supplying any district and the inhabitants thereof with water, and in executing such works may carry such mains and other waterworks through, across or under any street or road, or any place laid out or intended for a street or road, or any premises under any street or road:
Provided nevertheless that as regards any street or road within a
Municipal area, the Authority shall first obtain (except in the case of urgency) the concurrence of the Municipal Authority:
Provided further that wherever any street or road, or any place laid out or intended for a street or road, or any premises under any street or road, are opened or broken up in the execution of such works, the Authority shall with all convenient speed complete the work for which the street, road, place or premises are to be opened or broken up, and reinstate and make good such street, road, place or premises.
premises
“premises” means any structure, building or part of a building, land without buildings, or any pier, sea wall or wharf;
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Terms defined in s 2
premises
Defined · s 2“premises” means any structure, building or part of a building, land without buildings, or any pier, sea wall or wharf;
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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