Fire Services Act 1947

15 Provision of water supply otherwise than by statutory undertakers.

(1) A fire authority shall for the purposes of tile last but one foregoing section have power by agreement—

(a) to secure the use, in case of fire, of water under the control of any person other than statutory water undertakers;

(b) to improve the access to any such water;

(c) to lay and maintain pipes and to carry out other works in connection with the use of such water in case of fire.

(2) Subject to any agreement under the last foregoing subsection, a fire authority may use for fire-fighting purposes any convenient and suitable supply of water, but shall be liable to pay reasonable compensation therefor:

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall affect the duty of undertakers to whom section forty-two of the [10 & 11 Vict. c. 17.] Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 or section thirty-six of the Third Schedule to the Water Act, 1945, applies to supply water for the said purposes without compensation or payment.