35 Power to supply water fittings.S
(1)A water authority may, on the request of any person to whom they supply or propose to supply water, supply to him F1 any such water fittings as are required or allowed by their byelaws and may, on such request, install, repair or alter (but not manufacture) any such water fittings, whether supplied by them or not, and may provide any materials and do any work required in connection with installation, repair or alteration of water fittings.
The authority may make such charges as may be agreed, or in default of agreement as may be reasonable, for any fittings supplied, or any materials provided or work done under this subsection, and may recover such charges.
(2)If any fittings [F2supplied otherwise than by sale] by the authority bear either a distinguishing plate affixed thereto, or a distinguishing brand or other mark conspicuously impressed or made thereon, sufficiently indicating the authority as the actual owners of the fittings, those fittings—
(a)shall, notwithstanding that they fixed to some part of the premises in which they are situated or that they be laid in the soil thereunder, continue to be the property of, and removable by, the authority; and
(b)shall not be subject to poinding or other diligence or to the landlord’s hypothec for rent, or be liable to be taken under any process of law or in any proceedings in bankruptcy against the persons in whose possesion they may be.
(3)Nothing in subsection (2) shall affect the valuation for rating of any lands and heritages.
(4)The authority shall so adjust the charges to be made by them under this section as to meet any expenditure by them thereunder, including interest upon any moneys borrowed for the purposes thereof and any sum carried to a sinking fund or otherwise required for repayment of moneys so borrowed, and the total sums expended and received by the authority in connection with the puposes of this section in each year, including interest and any sums carried to a sinking fund or otherwise required for repayment of moneys borrowed, shall be separately shown in the published accounts of the authority for that year.
[F3(5)If any person—
(a)so interferes with a meter used by the authority in determining the amount of any charges fixed in relation to any premises as intentionally or recklessly to prevent the meter from showing, or from accurately showing, the volume of water supplied to those premises; or
(b)carries out, without the consent of the water authority, any works which he knows are likely to affect the operation of such a meter or which require the disconnection of such a meter; or
(c)otherwise wilfully or negligently injures or suffers to be injured any water fitting belonging to the authority,
he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 35(1) ceased to have effect (1.4.1993) by virtue of Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 107, Sch. 11, Pt. IV, para. 30(a) (with s. 118(1)(2)(4)); S.I. 1993/575, art. 2(b)
F2Words in s. 35(2) substituted (1.4.1993) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 107, Sch. 11, Pt. IV, para. 30(b) (with s. 118(1)(2)(4)); S.I. 1993/575, art. 2(b)
F3S. 35(5) substituted (1.4.1993) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 107, Sch. 11, Pt. IV, para. 30(c) (with s. 118(1)(2)(4)); S.I. 1993/575, art. 2(b)