Public Health Act 1875

57 Incorporation of certain provisions of Waterworks Clauses Acts.

For the purpose of enabling any local authority to supply water there shall be incorporated with this Act the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863, and the following provisions of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 ; (namely,)

• " With respect " (where the local authority have not the control of the streets) " to the breaking up of streets for the purpose of laying pipes " ; and

• " With respect to the communication pipes to be laid by the undertakers " ; and

• " With respect to the communication pipes to be laid by the inhabitants " ; and

• " With respect to waste or misuse of the water supplied by the undertakers " ; and

• " With respect to the provision for guarding against fouling the water of the undertakers " ; and

• " With respect to the payment and recovery of the water rates."

Provided,—

• That the provisions with respect to the communication pipes to be laid by the undertakers and the inhabitants respectively shall apply only in districts or parts of districts where the local authority lay any pipes for the supply of any of the inhabitants thereof ; and

• That any dispute authorised or directed by any of the said incorporated provisions to be settled by an inspector or two justices shall be settled by a court of summary jurisdiction ; and

• That section forty-four of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, shall for the purposes of this Act have effect as if the words " with the consent in writing of the owner or reputed owner " of any such house, or of the agent of such owner," were omitted therefrom ; and any rent for pipes and works paid by an occupier under that section may be deducted by him from any rent from time to time due from him to such owner.