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| (1) If any private street has been constructed to which one or more houses have access, the Board may lay, enlarge, or extend a water main along such private street of such dimensions as may be necessary, and may apportion the whole or part of the cost of laying, enlarging, or extending such main among the owners of the premises fronting upon, adjoining, abutting, or having access to, or deriving any degree of benefit from, such main according to the areas of the respective premises which may derive, or be so situated as to derive, any such benefit from the laying, enlarging, or extending of the said main. |
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| (2) The initial cost of laying, enlarging, or extending such main shall be borne by the Board, and the property in the said main shall remain in the Board. |
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| (3) The sums apportioned for payment by the owners of the respective premises shall be made a charge upon such premises, and no private service shall be granted to such premises until the sum apportioned in respect thereof has been paid or an engagement to pay the same be made with the Board as hereinafter provided. |
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| (4) When any premises in any such private street has an already existing supply of water from the Board's mains by private pipes, the Board may, whenever it shall become necessary to take up such private pipes for cleaning or renewal, call upon the owner to connect with the new main. |
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| (5)
| | (a) In any case where any existing main has been laid in any private street at the expense of any private person, it shall be lawful for such person to recover from the owner or owners of any property fronting upon, adjoining, abutting on, or having access to such private street, who apply to the Board for a private service of water, such an apportionment of the cost of the laying of the said main as may be determined by the General Manager of the Board in proportion to the frontage of the premises abutting on such street. | | |
| | (b) No person shall be permitted to make a connection with any such main until he has paid or given a guarantee for the payment of such apportionment to the satisfaction of such private person. | | |
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| (6)
| | (a) When any premises fronting upon, adjoining, abutting on, or having access to any such private street has an existing supply of water from the Board's mains by private pipes other than the main which has been laid at the cost of any private person aforesaid, the owner of such premises may be permitted to use such pipes until such time as it shall become necessary to take up such pipes for cleaning or renewal. | | |
| | (b) When it shall become necessary to take up such pipes for cleaning or renewal, the owner of the said premises shall not be permitted to re-lay such pipes in their former position, but shall connect them with the main in the private street laid by the private person aforesaid, and shall, before any connection is made therewith, pay such apportionment of the cost of laying the aforesaid main as shall be determined by the General Manager of the Board in proportion to the frontage of the premises abutting on such street. | | |
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| (7) All mains laid in any private street shall vest in the Board, and the cost of their maintenance, renewal, and repair shall be borne by the Board.
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts