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Power of authority to require separate service pipes.S

7(1)Subject to the provisions of this paragraph [F1Scottish Water] may require the provision of a separate service pipe for each house supplied, or to be supplied by [F2it] , with water.

(2)If, in the case of a house already supplied with water but not having a separate service pipe, [F3Scottish Water gives] notice to the owner of the house, requiring the provision of such a pipe, the owner shall within [F4such period of not less than three months as the notice shall specify] lay so much of the required pipe as will constitute a supply pipe and is not required to be laid in a [F5road], and [F6Scottish Water] shall, within 14 days after he has done so, lay so much of the required pipe as will constitute a communication pipe or a supply pipe to be laid in a [F5road] and make all necessary connections.

(3)If an owner upon whom a notice has been served under the last foregoing sub-paragraph fails to comply therewith, [F7Scottish Water] may [F8itself] execute the work which he was required to execute.

(4)The expenses reasonably incurred by [F9Scottish Water] in executing the work which [F10it is] required by sub-paragraph (2) to execute, or which [F10it is] empowered by the last foregoing sub-paragraph to execute, shall be repaid to [F11it] by the owner of the house and may be recovered by [F11it] from him, but without prejudice to the rights and obligations as between themselves, of the owner and occupier of the house.

(5)Where two or more houses are being supplied with water by a single service pipe, [F12Scottish Water] shall not require the provision of separate service pipes for those houses until F13

(a)the existing supply pipe becomes so defective as to require renewal, or is no longer sufficient to meet the requirements of the houses; or

(b)the houses are, by structural alterations to one or more of them, converted into a larger number of houses. [F14; or

(c)the owner or occupier of any of the houses has interfered with, or allowed another person to interfere with, the existing service pipe or the stop-cock fixed to that pipe and has thereby caused the supply of water to any of the houses to be interfered with; or

(d)[F15Scottish Water has] reasonable grounds to believe that such interference as is mentioned in (c) above is likely to take place.]

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