Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896

Power to require water rates to be levied.

5.(1) Where a sanitary authority under the provisions of the principal Act supply water in any urban district or in any contributory place, and an application is made to them by any ten persons rated to the relief of the poor in such urban district, or by any five persons so rated in such contributory place, to charge water rates or water rents in respect of the water so supplied, it shall be incumbent upon the authority to exercise the powers given to them by the principal Act of charging water rates or water rents in respect of all water supplied by them in such urban district or in such contributory place.

(2) In addition to the matters with respect to which byelaws are authorised to be made by the principal Act, every sanitary authority may make byelaws for the regulation of any water supply provided by them or under their control.