33. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 84 of the principal enactment and shall have effect as sections 84A, 84B, 84C, 84D, 84E, 84F,84G, 84H, and 84J of that enactment:-
| 84A. The Board shall be entitled to require of that the supply of water by the Board to any building or premises, shall be by meter (and the provisions of section 84(1) shall include charges for the supply of water by the Board). |
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| 84B.
| | (1) The Board shall for the purpose of assessing the charges to be levied in respect of the supply of water by the Board to any building or premises, install water meters in any buildings or premises so supplied. | | |
| | (2) Where a water meter is installed by the Board, on any building or premises, the occupier of such building or premises shall be liable, to pay for the water supplied to such building or premises, according to the rates and charges fixed under Part VI for the supply of water by meter, notwithstanding any obligation undertaken by the Board to supply water to such building or premises without payment. | | |
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| 84C. Any person who without reasonable cause, obstructs or resists an officer of the Board, authorized in that behalf, in the installation of a water meter, on any building or premises, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand rupees and not more than ten thousand rupees. |
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| 84D.
| | (1) Where a water meter installed by the board on any building or premises, is out of repair, it shall be the duty of the owner or occupier of such building or premises, to forthwith inform the Board of such fact. | | |
| | (2) Where any owner or occupier wilfully fails or neglects to perform the duty imposed on him by subsection (1), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after trail by a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not less than five thousand rupees and not exceeding ten thousand rupees. | | |
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| 84E. Any person who without reasonable cause, obstructs an officer authorized by the Board in that behalf from entering any building or premises for the purpose of reading the water mater installed thereon by the Board, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand rupees and not exceeding ten thousand rupees. |
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| 84F.
| | (1) Any owner or occupier of a building or premises who obtains a supply of water to such building or premises bypassing the water meter installed by the Board on such building or premises, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand rupees and not exceeding ten thousand rupees. | | |
| | (2) The General Manager or any person authorized in that behalf in writing may after giving at least one hour's notice to the owner or occupier of any building or premises on which a water meter has been installed by the Board, enter, at any time between the hours of six o' clock in the morning and six o' clock, in the evening, such building or premises for the purpose of ascertaining whether such building or premises is being supplied with water by-passing the water meter. | | |
| | (3) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the General Manager or any person authorized by him in that behalf in writing that the supply of water to any given building or premises has been obtained by-passing the water meter installed to such building or premises, the General Manager shall forthwith discontinue such unauthorized supply of water to the building or premises. | | |
| | (4) Any person who without reasonable cause, resists or obstructs the General Manager or any person authorized by him in that behalf in writing, in the performance of his duties under subsections (2) and (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction by a Magistrate be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand rupees and not more than ten thousand rupees. | | |
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| 84G. Any person who tampers with, breaks opens, alters, damages, or in any other way wrongfully interferes with any water meter installed by the Board on any building or premises shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand rupees, and not exceeding ten thousand rupees. |
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| 84H. All water meters installed on any building or premises along with all its appurtenances, shall be deemed to be the property of the Board. |
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| 84J.
| | (1) The occupier of any building or premises supplied with water by the Board shall be liable for the payment of all charges levied in respect of the supply of such water, to such building or premises. | | |
| | (2) Where the Board is unable to ascertain who the occupier of a particular building or premises is, the General Manager may serve a written notice on the owner thereof, requiring him, within two weeks of the date of the receipt of such notice, to disclose to the Board, the name of the occupier. If the owner fails without reasonable cause to make the required disclosure within the required period, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine of one hundred rupees.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts