Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Power to charge water rates and rents.

66. Where a sanitary authority supply water to any premises they may charge in respect of such supply a water rate to be assessed on the net annual value of the premises to be made, assessed, and levied in like manner in every respect as the rate out of which the expenses incurred by such sanitary authority in the execution of this Act are defrayed; moreover, they may enter into agreements for supplying water on such terms as may be agreed on between them and the persons receiving the supply, and may recover water rents or other moneys payable under such agreements in a summary manner.