Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863

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Penalty for unauthorized application of water.

18. If any person—

First, not having from the undertakers a supply of water for other than domestic purposes, uses, for other than domestic purposes, any water supplied to him by the undertakers ; or

Secondly, having from the undertakers a supply of water for any other than domestic purposes, uses, for any purposes other than those for which he is entitled to use the same, any water supplied to him by the undertakers,—

he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, without prejudice to the right of the undertakers to recover from him the value of the water misused.