Limited Owners Reservoirs and Water Supply Further Facilities Act, 1877

Definitions.

10. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings; that is to say,

“The Commissioners” means the Inclosure Commissioner of England and Wales, or the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, as the case may require:

“The Improvement of Land Act, 1864,” means the 27th and 28th Vict. c. 114:

“Works for the supply of water” includes wells, pumps, reservoirs cisterns, ponds, tanks, aqueducts, cuts, sluices, mains pipes culverts, machinery, and things for supplying or used in supplying water:

“Water company” means any person or body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, supplying or who may hereafter supply water for his or their own profit:

“Local authority” means any authority having jurisdiction for any public local purpose. 1

The several words and expressions to which by the Improvement of Land Act, 1864, meanings are assigned, shall in this Act have the same respective meanings as in that Act.