WATER AND SEWERAGE SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1973

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WATER AND SEWERAGE SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1973 - SECT 44



44.(1) The Ministry may

(a)on the request of any person, supply to him, by way either of sale or hire,
any water fittings; and

(b)on such request, install, repair or alter (but not manufacture) any water
fittings, whether supplied by it or not; and

(c)provide any materials and do any work required in connection with such
installation, repair or alteration of water fittings.

(2) The Ministry

(a)may make reasonable charges for any fitting supplied, or any materials
provided or work done, under this Article; and

(b)may recover those charges summarily as civil debts.

(3) If any fittings let for hire by the Ministry bear either a distinguishing
metal plate affixed thereto, or a distinguishing brand or other mark
conspicuously impressed or made thereon, sufficiently indicating the Ministry
as the actual owner of the fittings, those fittings

(a)shall, notwithstanding that they are fixed to some part of the premises in
which they are situated or be laid in the soil thereunder, continue to be the
property of, and removable by, the Ministry; and

(b)shall not be liable to be taken under [the Judgments Enforcement (Northern
Ireland) Order 1981] or in any proceedings in bankruptcy against the persons
in whose possession they may be;

(4) If any person wilfully or negligently injures or suffers to be injured any
water fitting belonging to the Ministry

(a)he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #100; and

(b)the Ministry

(i)may do all such work as is necessary for repairing any injury done; and

(ii)may recover the expenses reasonably incurred by it in doing so from the
offender summarily as a civil debt.

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WATER AND SEWERAGE SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1973 - SECT 44