Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPenalty for suffering pipes, &c., to be out of repair
| 28. If any person supplied with water from the Board wilfully or negligently causes or suffers any pipe, valve, cock, cistern, soil pan, water-closet, or other apparatus or receptacle to be out of repair, or to be so used or contrived that the water supplied to him from the Board is or is likely to be wasted, misused, unduly consumed, or contaminated, or so as to occasion or allow the return of foul air or other noisome or impure matter into any pipe belonging to or connected with the pipes of the Board, he shall, be guilty of an offence, and be liable on conviction after trial before a Magistrate for every such offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees. |