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Penalty for injuring Waterworks, diverting Streams, or wasting Water.
Penalties on Persons for causing Water in Reservoirs to be fouled;
and on Proprietors of Gasworks, &c.
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LIV. Whosoever shall wilfully or carelessly break, injure, or open any Lock, Cock, Waste-pipe, or Waterworks belonging to or under the Management or Control of the Commissioners, or shall unlawfully divert or take Water from any Waterworks belonging to or under the Control of the Commissioners, or from any Waters by which such Waterworks are supplied, or shall wilfully or negligently waste any Water with which he is supplied by the Commissioners, shall for every such Offence forfeit a Sum not exceeding Two Pounds, and a further Penalty not exceeding Ten Shillings for each Day whilst the Offence is continued after written Notice in that Behalf, which Penalties shall be paid to the Commissioners; and whosoever shall bathe in any Stream, Reservoir, or other Waterworks belonging to or under the Control of the Commissioners, or shall wash, throw, or cause to enter therein any Animal, Rubbish, or Thing of any kind, or shall cause or permit or suffer to run or be brought therein the Water of any Sink, Sewer, Drain, Engine, or Boiler, or other filthy, unwholesome, or improper Water, or shall do anything whatsoever whereby any Water belonging to the Commissioners, or under their Management or Control, shall be fouled, shall for every such Offence forfeit a Sum not exceeding Two Pounds, and a further Sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings for each Day whilst the Offence is continued, after written Notice in that Behalf, which Penalties shall be paid to the Commissioners; and whosoever, being Proprietor of any Gasworks, or engaged or employed in the Manufacture or Supply of Gas, causes or suffers to be brought or to flow into any Stream, Reservoir, or Waterworks belonging to or under the Management or Control of the Commissioners, or into any Drain or Pipe communicating therewith, any Washing or other Substance produced in the Manufacture or Supply of Gas, or shall wilfully do any Act connected with the Manufacture or Supply of Gas, whereby the Water in any such Stream, Reservoir, or Waterworks is fouled, shall forfeit to the Commissioners for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding One hundred Pounds, and, after the Expiration of Twenty-four Hours Notice in Writing from them in this Behalf, a further Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds for every Day during which the Offence is continued; and if any Water belonging to or under the Management or Control of the Commissioners be fouled in any Manner by the Gas of any such Proprietor or Person, he shall forfeit to the Commissioners for every such Offence a Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds, and a further Sum not exceeding Five Pounds for every Day whilst the Offence is continued after the Expiration of Twenty-four Hours Notice in Writing from the Commissioners in this Behalf; and for the Purpose of ascertaining whether such Water is fouled by the Gas of any such Proprietor or Person, the Commissioners may lay open and examine any Pipes, Conduits, and Works from which the Gas is supposed to escape; provided that before beginning so to do Twenty-four Hours Notice in Writing be given to the Person to whom such Pipes, Conduits, or Works belong, or under whose Management or Control they may be, of the Time at which the Examination is intended to be made; and if upon such Examination it appear that the Water has been fouled by the Gas proceeding from the Works examined, the Expenses of the Examination shall be paid and borne by the Person to whom such Works belong, or under whose Management or Control they may be, and be recoverable from him in the same Manner as any Debt may be recovered by the Law of Ireland; but if it appear that the Water has not been so fouled, then such Expenses, and all Damages occasioned by the Examination, shall be paid by the Commissioners out of the general Assessments levied under this Act, and be recoverable from them upon summary Proceeding by Civil Bill or otherwise, as any Debt may be recovered by the Law of Ireland.
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