Public Utilities Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Water Undertaking of Board
31. Power to enter premises to examine pipes, etc.
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The Board may by its employees, agents or contractors, at all reasonable hours in the day or night, or at any other time that may be agreed with the owner or occupier of the premises, enter any premises to or from which water (including extracted water and water derived from extracted water) is or has been supplied for all or any of the following purposes:
Board
“Board” means the Public Utilities Board reconstituted under the Public Utilities Act in force before 1 April 2001 and continued by section 3;
to examine and if necessary repair, renew or replace the pipes, meters, fittings, works or apparatus for, or in respect of, the supply of water belonging to or which are supplied from mains belonging to the Board;
to ascertain the quantity of water used or supplied;
when the Board is authorised to discontinue the supply of water from any premises, to remove any pipe, fitting, meter, work or apparatus belonging to the Board;
to repair any damage caused by such entry, inspection or removal.
For the purposes of subsection (1), where a person —
extracts water or derives water from water extracted by the person; and
uses the extracted water or water so derived at any premises,the water so used by the person is regarded as being or having been supplied to those premises.
The Board may by its employees, agents or contractors, at all reasonable hours in the day or night, or at any other time that may be agreed with the owner or occupier of the premises, enter upon or pass through any premises into, through, by, along or under which any of its mains, pipes or other works or any main, pipe or work connected therewith passes or is located —
occupier
“occupier” means the person in occupation of any premises and includes the person having the charge, management or control of the premises either on the person’s own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;
to inspect and, if necessary, to repair, alter, take up, relay, rearrange or otherwise deal with them as the circumstances may require; and
to repair any damage caused by such entry or anything done under paragraph (a).
The Board shall not be liable to pay any person any fee, charge or expense or to any legal proceedings or molestation on account of such entry or of anything done to the premises under this section.
premises
“premises” includes buildings, structures, streets, lands, waters, tenements, easements of any tenure, whether State land or not, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;