principal Office of each Company, and shall be open to the Inspection of all Persons interested in the same within the said District, who shall be at liberty to take Copies of or Extracts from the same. 15 & 16 Vict., Cap. 84. Particulars XVIII. Every Company, on the Application of any Companies to Person supplied with Water by such Company, shall furnish furnish to such Person the Particulars of any [District of District Main (a)] from which such Person is supplied, together Mains when with the Names of the Streets through which such [District required. Main (a)] passes, and the Commencement and Termina tion thereof. [XIX-XXII., both inclusive, repealed by Metropolis Water Act, 1871, s. 5, p. 238, so far as regards their operation within the limits of that Act, and for such limits see s. 4 thereof.] XXIII. Every Cistern or other Receptacle for Water, and every Closet, Soil-pan, and private Bath which shall be supplied with Water by any Company, shall be so constructed and used as effectually to prevent the Waste, Misuse, or undue Consumption of Water, and the Flow or Return of foul Air or other noisome or impure Matter into the Mains or Pipes of the Company, or into any Pipes connected or communicating therewith; and notwithstanding anything in "The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847," or in this Act contained, no Company shall be bound to supply Water into any Cistern or other Receptacle for Water, Closet, Soil-pan, or private Bath, which shall not be so constructed and used. Cisterns, Baths to be so to prevent Waste or the Flow or ReMatter into turn of impure the Mains, &c. tion with Pipes of the Company. XXIV. No Person shall make or lay down, or permit Restricting to be made or laid down, any Pipe or other Means or CommunicaContrivance for taking, using, or obtaining Water to communicate with any Pipe or Apparatus connected with any of the Mains or Pipes of any Company without giving such Notice, and except under such Superintendence, and according to such Direction as is provided by " The Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847," with respect to the Communication Pipes to be laid by the Inhabitants. XXV. If any Person supplied with Water by any Company shall wilfully do or cause to be done any Act, Matter, or Thing in contravention of the Provisions of this Act, or of the Special Act relating to such Company, or of any Act incorporated therewith, or shall wilfully omit or neglect to do any Matter or Thing which under such (a) For "district main," now read "pipe." See Metropolis Water Act, 1871, s. 49, p. 252. As to screw-cocks, see note (b), p. 108. Water may be cut 15 & 16 Vict., Cap. 84. Regulations to be made, Short Title. Interpretation of Terms. Provisions ought to be done for the Prevention of the Waste, Misuse, or undue Consumption, or the Contamination of the Water of the Company, it shall be lawful for the Company to turn off the Water supplied by them to such Person, and to cease to supply such Person with Water, and also to recover from such Person by Action or Suit in any Court of Competent Jurisdiction the Amount of any Loss, Damage, or Injury which such Company mav sustain by means or in consequence of any such Act, Matter, or Thing as aforesaid, or of any such wilful Omission or Neglect as aforesaid. XXVI. It shall be lawful for any Company from Time to Time, *** to make such Regulations as shall be necessary or expedient for the Purpose of preventing the Waste or Misuse of Water, and therein, amongst other things, to prescribe the Size, Nature, and Strength of the Pipes, Cocks, Cisterns, and other Apparatus to be used, and to interdict any Arrangements, and the use of any Pipes, Cocks, Cisterns, or other Apparatus, which may tend to such Waste or Misuse as aforesaid. [Words omitted from s. 26 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1875.] [XXVII. repealed by Metropolis Water Act, 1871, s. 5. p. 238, so far as regards its operation within the limits of that Act, and for such limits see s. 4 thereof.] XXVIII. In citing this Act in other Acts and in legal Instruments it shall be enough to use the Expression "The Metropolis Water Act, 1852." XXIX. In the Construction of this Act the Expression "Company" shall mean and include any of the Companies herein-after enumerated; (that is to say,) the Governor and Company of the New River brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London, commonly called "The New River Company; " the Company of Proprietors of the East London Waterworks; the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company; the West Middlesex Waterworks Company; the Lambeth Waterworks Company; the Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks; the Grand Junction Waterworks Company; the Company of Proprietors of the Kent Waterworks; and the Hampstead Waterworks Company; and also any other Company, Board, Commissioner, Association, Person or Partnership, corporate or unincorporate, for the Time being supplying the Metropolis or any Part thereof with Water for domestic Use; Cap. 84. the Expression "the Special Act" shall mean and include 15 & 16 Vict., this Act, and every and any Act of Parliament relating to the Company referred to; and the Expression "the Metropolis" shall mean and include all Places described or referred to in the Schedule to this Act. (a) The SCHEDULE above referred to. All such Places lying on the North Side or Left Bank of the River Thames as are within the exterior Boundaries of and are within the Ambit formed by the Parishes of Fulham, Hammersmith, Kensington, Paddington, Hampstead, Hornsey, Tottenham, Saint Pancras, Islington, Stoke Newington, Hackney, Stratford-leBow, Bromley, Poplar, and Shadwell. Such Part of the Parish of Chelsea as lies North of the said Parish of Kensington. And such Parts and Places lying on the South Side or Right Bank of the said River as are within the exterior Boundaries of and are within the Ambit formed by the Parishes of Woolwich, Charlton, Greenwich, Deptford, Lee, Lewisham, Camberwell, Lambeth, Streatham, Tooting, Wandsworth, and Putney. (a) For definition of term "metropolis" in Metropolis Water Act, 1871, see s. 3 thereof, p. 236, and for limits of that Act, see s. 4 thereof, p. 238. 16 & 17 Vict., Cap. 41. Short title. Recited Act and this Act to be as One. Power to Local Authority (b) to require an additional Supply of Water to Common Lodging Houses. (c) COMMON LODGING HOUSES 16 & 17 Vict., Cap. 41. An Act for making further [Preamble and introductory words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1892.] I. This Act may be cited for any Purpose as "The II. The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and this Act shall be construed and executed as if they were One Act. * * * VI. When it appears to the local Authority (b) that a Common Lodging House (c) is without a proper Supply of Water for the Use of the Lodgers, and that such a Supply can be furnished thereto at a reasonable Rate, the local Authority (b) may by Notice in Writing require the Owner or Keeper of the Common Lodging House, within a Time specified therein, to obtain such Supply, and to do all Works necessary for that Purpose; and if the Notice be not complied with accordingly, the local Authority (b) may remove the Common Lodging House from the Register until it be complied with. (d) *** (a) By the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 343, this Act is repealed except so far as relates to the Metropolitan Police District, and, by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1892, it is repealed except as to the metropolis as defined by such Public Health Act, viz., the City of London and all parishes and places mentioned in schedules A., B., and C. to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855 (pp. 121-124.) (b) As regards the metropolis, s. 3 of the Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, as amended by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1893, provides that such Act shall be executed by the commissioners of police of the metropolis, and s. 2 hereof provides that that Act and this shall be construed and executed as if they were one Act. (c) Or the part of a house used as a common lodging house. S. 2 of the Act recited in s. 2 hereof. See (d) As to access to common lodging houses by officer of local authority, see s. 12 of the Act recited in s. 2 hereof. 17 & 18 Vict., Cap. 103. TOWNS IMPROVEMENT (IRE- 17 & 18 Vict., Cap. 103. An Act to make better Provision for the paving, lighting, draining, cleansing, supplying with Water, and Regulation of Towns in Ireland. (a) *** [10th August 1854.] of Terms in this Act. I. The following Words and Expressions in this Act Interpretation shall have the Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction (that is to say), the Word "Town" "Town." shall mean and include a City, Town Corporate, Borough, Market Town, or other Town in Ireland, containing a population of One thousand five hundred Inhabitants or upwards as ascertained by their last Population Returns made pursuant to Act of Parliament; *** the Expression "the Commissioners shall mean a Majority of the Commissioners for the Purposes of this Act acting in and for a Town by which this Act has been in whole or in part adopted; *** the Word "Street" shall extend to and include any Road, Bridge, Lane, Square, Court, Alley, and Thoroughfare or public Passage; *** Commis sioners."' Street." II. In citing this Act in other Acts of Parliament, and Short Title of in legal Instruments, and in pleading, it shall be enough this Act. to use the Expression "The Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854." *** LI. The Commissioners may contract for any Period Commisnot exceeding Three Years at any One Time with the sioners may (a) The application of this Act is subject to its adoption in accordance with provisions contained therein, and the Act is subject to adaptation by Order in Council under s. 105 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898. |