Public Utilities Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Offences
45. Maintenance of water service installation
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Any person responsible for the maintenance of any water service installation must ensure that the water service installation is properly maintained, kept in a fit and safe condition, and free from any defect.
installation
“installation” includes any plant or apparatus designed for the collection, conveyance, production, supply or use of water;
Any person responsible for the maintenance of any water service installation in any residential, commercial or industrial premises having any storage tank must, whenever the Board so requires, engage a professional engineer to inspect and certify that —
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;
the water service installation is fit and safe to use;
the water service installation is properly maintained and there is no contamination or pollution or likelihood of any contamination or pollution to the water in the water service installation; and
there is no leakage and no likelihood of leakage in the water service installation.
Every professional engineer engaged under subsection (2) must ensure that the requirements set out in that subsection are complied with.
professional engineer
“professional engineer” means an individual who is registered as a professional engineer under the Professional Engineers Act 1991 and has in force a practising certificate issued under that Act;
If any of the requirements set out in subsection (2) is not complied with, the professional engineer must immediately notify —
the person responsible for the maintenance of the water service installation; and
the Board,of the non-compliance and the remedial measures that have to be taken by that person.
Upon notification by the professional engineer, the person mentioned in subsection (4)(a) must immediately take the remedial measures.
The professional engineer must issue a certificate of inspection and fitness to the person responsible for the maintenance of the water service installation if the professional engineer is satisfied that the water service installation complies with all the requirements set out in subsection (2).
Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence.
Regulations made under section 72 may specify —
the persons responsible for the matters mentioned in subsections (1) and (2); and
additional responsibilities of any person responsible in relation to a water service installation, or any part of the water service installation.