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If rates are not paid, water may be cut off, and rates and expences recovered.
Profits of the undertakers.
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74. If any person supplied with water by the undertakers, or liable as herein or in the special Act provided to pay the water rate, neglect to pay such water rate at any of the said times of payment thereof, the undertakers may stop the water from flowing into the premises in respect of which such rate is payable, by cutting off the pipe to such premises, or by such means as the undertakers shall think fit, and may recover the rate due from such person, if less than twenty pounds, with the expences of cutting off the water, and costs of recovering the rate, in the same manner as any damages for the recovery of which no special provision is made are recoverable by this or the special Act; or if the rate so due amount to twenty pounds or upwards, the undertakers may recover the same, with the expences of cutting off the water, by action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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