SCHEDULES
C2SCHEDULE 3 Provisions as to Breaking Open Streets and Laying Communication and Supply Pipes
C1Part II
Sch. 3 Pt. II (paras. 4–9) applied with modifications by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65, SIF 81:2), s. 170A(5) (as inserted by Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), s. 102, Sch. 13)
Provisions as to laying communication and supply pipes, etc.
7 Power of authority to require separate service pipes.
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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.
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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.
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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—
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the existing supply pipe becomes so defective as to require renewal, or is no longer sufficient to meet the requirements of the houses; or
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the houses are, by structural alterations to one or more of them, converted into a larger number of houses. F14; or
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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
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F15Scottish Water has reasonable grounds to believe that such interference as is mentioned in (c) above is likely to take place.
Sch. 3: power to apply conferred (1.10.1991) by Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 28, SIF 46:1, 130), s. 20(10), Sch. 7 para. 5(1)(b)