Water Companies (Regulation of Powers) Act 1887

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved


Water Companies (Regulation of Powers) Act, 1887

(50 & 51 Vict.) CHAPTER 21.

An Act to limit the Powers of the Water Companies to cut off the Tenants Water Supply where the rate is paid by the landlord.

[8th August 1887]

W HEREAS it is expedient to make further provision with respect to the powers of companies supplying water for profit in England:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Short title.

1 Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as theWater Companies (Regulation of Powers) Act, 1887.

S-2 Extent of Act.

2 Extent of Act.

2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

S-3 Application of Act.

3 Application of Act.

3. This Act shall apply to every water company which is a trading company supplying water for profit, and to which any of the provisions of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, have been or shall be made applicable by any special Act or Provisional Order confirmed by Parliament, and every such special Act and Provisional Order shall be deemed to be amended by this Act, and shall be construed accordingly.

S-4 Water not to be cut off where the water rate is payable by the owner.

4 Water not to be cut off where the water rate is payable by the owner.

4. Where the owner and not the occupier is liable by law or by agreement with the water company to the payment of the water rate in respect of any dwelling-house or part of a dwelling-house occupied as a separate tenement, no water company shall cut off the water supply for nonpayment of the water rate, but such water rate, without prejudice to the other remedies of the company for enforcing payment thereof from such owner, shall, together with interest thereon at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, computed from the expiration of one month from the time when the same has been claimed by the company until receipt thereof by the company, be a charge on such dwelling-house in priority to all other charges affecting the premises; and (without prejudice to such charge) the amount may be recovered, with the costs incurred, from the owner or from the occupier for the time being in the same manner as water rates may by law be recovered: Provided always, that proceedings shall not be taken against the occupier until notice shall have been given to him or left at his dwelling-house to pay the...

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