Water Services Act 2007

Map of works.

49.— (1) A water services authority shall provide a record, in the form of a map or other diagrammatic or electronic representation, of the location and extent of service connections, waterworks and waste water works in its functional area, whether they are the property of the water services authority or the property of any other person, who shall provide the information necessary for this purpose, and for the purpose of subsection (2), to the water services authority.

(2) A water services authority shall, within 6 weeks of a service connection, waterworks or waste water works in its functional area being provided, altered or added to, bring the record provided under subsection(1) up to date.

(3) The record provided under subsection (1) shall be available for inspection at the principal office of the water services authority during normal business hours.

(4) The Minister may make regulations specifying the details to be recorded in records to be kept under subsection (1).

(5) For the purposes of subsection (1) or (2), a water services authority may by notice require a person who owns or is otherwise in charge of a service connection, waterworks or waste water works to which this section refers to keep such records or to provide to it such particulars as it may specify in relation to that service connection, waterworks or waste water works, within such time as may be specified in the notice.

(6) A person who contravenes the requirement under subsection (1) to provide information to a water services authority, or who fails to comply with a notice under subsection (5), commits an offence.