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In this
Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words and expression
in relation to water supply shall have the respective meanings given below, namely:
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"communication pipe" means, - |
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| a) |
where the
premises supplied with water about on the part of the street in which the main
is laid, and the service pipe enters those premises otherwise than through the
outer wall of a building abutting on the street and has a stopcock placed in those
premises and as near to the boundary of that street as is reasonably practicable,
so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and that stopcock; |
| b) |
in any other
case, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and the boundary of
the street in which the main is laid, and includes the ferrule at the junction
of the service pipe with the main, and also |
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| i) | where
the communication pipe ends at a stopcock, that stopcock; and |
| ii) | any
stopcock fitted on the communication pipe between the end thereof and the main.
| | | | (2) |
"main" means
a pipe laid by the Council for the purpose of giving a general supply of water
as distinct from a supply to individual consumers and includes any apparatus used
in connection with such a pipe. | | (3) |
"service
pipe" means so much of any pipe for supplying water from a main to any premises
as is subject to water pressure from that main, or would be so subject but for
the closing of some tap. | | (4) | "supply
pipe" means so much of any service pipe as is not a communication pipe. |
| (5) |
"trunk main"
means a main constructed for the purpose of conveying water from a source of supply
to a filter or reservoir or from one filter or reservoir to another filter or
reservoir, or for the purpose of conveying water in bulk from one part of the
limits of supply to another part of those limits, or for the purpose of giving
or taking a supply of water in bulk. | | (6) |
"water fitting"
includes pipes (other than mains), taps cocks, valves, ferrules, meters, cisterns,
baths and other similar apparatus used in connection with the supply and use of
water. | |