Section 45
When any service pipe, cock or other apparatus belonging to the
Authority is placed in or upon any premises not being in the possession of the Authority for the purpose of supplying water, such pipe, cock or other apparatus shall not be subject to distress nor be taken in execution under process of a court or proceedings in bankruptcy against the person who has possession of the pipe, cock or other apparatus.
Licences to be discretionary 46.
(1)
The grant or renewal of any licence in pursuance of this Act or any regulations made thereunder, shall be in the discretion of the Authority or person authorised to grant or renew the same and may be granted, renewed or refused without any reason for such grant, renewal or refusal being assigned therefor and may be granted or renewed subject to such restrictions and conditions as the Authority or person granting, renewing or refusing the same may think fit and shall be revocable at any time without compensation and without notice by the Authority upon breach of any restriction or condition subject to which it was issued.
(2)
The Authority or person empowered to grant or renew any licence may require any applicant therefor to furnish such information as the
Authority or that person may reasonably require for a full and proper consideration of the application and, in the event of a refusal to furnish such information, shall refuse to grant or renew such licence.
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(3)
Except as otherwise provided, any licence granted or renewed in pursuance of this Act or any regulations made thereunder may be for such period not exceeding 12 months as the Authority thinks fit.
(4)
There shall be charged for the grant or renewal of any licence such fee, if any, as may be prescribed.
(5)
No such licence shall be transferrable without the consent of the
Authority or person granting the licence.
(6)
Except as otherwise provided, any person aggrieved by the refusal by any employee of the Authority to grant or renew a licence or by the suspension or revocation by the Authority of any licence may, within one month of such refusal, suspension or revocation, appeal to the Authority whose decision thereon is final.
(7)
In this section, “licence” means any approval, consent, permit, permission, authority, authorisation or licence which may be granted in pursuance of this Act or any regulations made thereunder.
Service of notice 47.
(1)
Every notice, order or document required or authorised by this
Act or any regulations made thereunder to be served on any person may be served —
(a)
by delivering it to such person or by delivering it at the last known place of abode of such person to some adult member or servant of his family;
(b)
by leaving it at the usual or last known place of abode or business of such person in a cover addressed to such person; or
(c)
by forwarding it by post in a prepaid letter addressed to such person at his usual or last known place of abode or business.
(2)
A notice, order or document required or authorised by this Act or any regulations made thereunder to be served on the owner or occupier of any premises is deemed to be properly addressed if addressed by the description of the “owner” or “occupier” of such premises without further name or description.
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(3)
A notice, order, summons or document required or authorised by this Act or any regulations made thereunder to be served on the owner or occupier of any premises may be served by delivering the notice, order, summons or document or a true copy thereof to some adult person on the premises or, if there is no such person on the premises to whom the notice order, summons or document can with reasonable diligence be delivered, by fixing the notice, order, summons or document on some conspicuous part of the premises.
Power of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council to make regulations 48.
(1)
His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council may make regulations for —
(a)
regulating the installation of water supplies and alterations thereto and for the submission of plans and specifications in respect thereof;
(b)
regulating the use of water meters and prohibiting interference with or damage to water meters or to seals affixed thereto;
(c)
preventing the misuse, waste, resale or contamination of water from the waterworks, including any river intakes connected therewith;
(d)
licensing plumbers to work upon the installation of water supplies and the repair, extension, alteration and removal thereof and prohibiting the employment upon such work of unlicensed plumbers and prescribing the fees to be charged for such licences;
(e)
prescribing the pipe materials and fittings to be used in connection with water supplies (including water supplied to urinals and water closets) and the size, shape, fitting, arrangement, connections, workmanship, laying, examination, testing, position and cleaning of the pipe materials and fittings;
(f)
the form of all notices required to be given or sent under this Act, and the issuing and service thereof;
(g)
the time and place for the payment of all moneys due or to become due under this Act;
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(h)
deposits to be made by consumers;
(i)
fees, surcharges and the payment thereof;
(j)
the price of water;
(k)
free allowances of water to approved hospitals, charitable institutions and other premises;
(l)
the fixing of meters, the amount of meter rents and the ascertaining of the consumption at any premises;
(m)
the notification of restriction or suspension of water supply;
(n)
the disconnection or re-connection of the water supply from or to a consumer;
(o)
the nature, size and quality of pipes, and fittings to be used on inside services and fire services;
(p)
the construction, alteration and maintenance of inside services and fire services including the keeping clean of such services;
(q)
notification to consumers that any inside services and fire services is defective;
(r)
the prevention of waste and the prohibition of the resale of water;
(s)
the taking of water from public standpipes, the regulation or restriction of the persons resorting or desiring to resort thereto, the apportionment or rationing or restriction of the supplies which may be taken therefrom, and the giving of power to police officers and others with a view to such regulation, apportionment, rationing and restriction;
(t)
the use of water for fire fighting purposes;
(u)
the conservation and use of water from the waterworks;
(v)
the regulation, protection and control of the waterworks, including any river intakes connected therewith;
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(w)
the taking of fish in reservoirs;
(x)
prescribing anything which under this Act is to be prescribed;
(y)
all such matters not specifically mentioned in this subsection as may conduce to the better and more effective carrying out of this Act.
(2)
Such regulations may provide that contravention of any specified regulations shall constitute an offence and may prescribe penalties not exceeding a fine of $1,500 for such contraventions.