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| (1) Where the water supply charge or sewerage charge payable by a person in respect of any period is not paid by such person to the Board within the period it is so required to be paid under subsection (2) of section 87, the General Manager of the Board, or any other person authorized by him in that behalf, may after giving such person not less than forty-eight hours' notice in writing, cut off the water service supplied to such person, and for that purpose cut or disconnect any water-works, being the property of the Board, through which such service may be supplied, and may discontinue such service until such charge, together with the amount of any expenses which have been incurred by the Board in cutting off the service, and may be incurred by the Board in re-connecting such service, is paid. |
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| (2) The General Manager of the Board, or any other person authorized by him in that behalf, may, at any reasonable time, enter any premises to which water or sewerage services have been supplied by the Board for the purpose of-
| | (a) removing or disconnecting, where the Board is authorized to cut off such service, any waterworks belonging to the Board; or | | |
| | (b) replacing or re-connecting, where such services are to be renewed, any waterworks belonging to the Board. | | |
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| (3) Where a person refuses to allow the General Manager of the Board, or any other person authorized by him in that behalf, to enter his premises in pursuance of the provisions of subsection (2), or fails to give reasonable facilities for such entry, such General Manager or person so authorized may, after the expiry of a period of twenty-four hours from the service of a notice in writing on that person, cut off such services to that person or withhold the replacement or re-connection of such services, as the case may be, for so long as such refusal or failure continues. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts