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Penalty for injuring Waterworks, diverting Streams, or wasting Water.
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LXXIX. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall wilfully or carelessly break, injure, or open any Lock, Cock, Waste Pipe, or Waterworks belonging to or under the Management or Control of the Local Board of Health, or constructed, continued, or maintained under this Act, in any Parish or Place in which there shall be no Local Board of Health, or shall unlawfully flush, draw off, divert, or take Water from any Waterworks belonging to or under the Management, or Control of the said Local Board, or so constructed, continued, or maintained in any such Parish or Place, or from any Waters or Streams by which such Waterworks are supplied, or shall wilfully or negligently waste or cause to be wasted any Water with which he is supplied by the said Local Board, shall for every such Offence forfeit a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds, and a further Penalty of Twenty Shillings for each Day whilst the Offence is continued after written Notice in that Behalf, which Penalties shall be paid to the said Local Board, or in the Case of a Parish or Place in which there shall be no Local Board of Health, to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, to be by them applied in aid of the Rate for the Relief of the Poor of such Parish or Place: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the Owner or Occupier of any Premises through or by which any Streams may flow from using the same as they would have been entitled to do if this Act had not been passed.
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