Hunter District Water and Sewerage (Amendment) Act 1924 (NSW)

HUNTER DISTRICT WATER AND SEWERAUE (AMEN!)M KNT)

ACT.

Act No. (5, 1924.

An	A c t i o m a k e fur ther provision for water supply, sewerage, and d ra inage for the H u n t e r .Dis- t r ic t ; to a m e n d the H u n t e r District W a t e r and Sewerage Acts, 1802-]!)()(! ; and for purposes consequent thereon or incidental there to . [Assented to , 17th Sep tember , 1024.]
Water and Sewerage (Amendment) Act. 102-L"

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Xew South BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with, the advice and consent of the Legis-

Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

TAUT I.

PRELIMINARY.

1 . This Act may be cited as the " H i n d e r District

2. The Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Act of 1892 (hereinafter referred to as " the Principal A c t " ) , as amended or extended by the Hunter District Water Supply (Partial Duplication) Act, 1895, the Hunter District Water and Sewerage Act Amendment

Act, 1897, the Newcastle Sewerage Act, 1902, and the

Hunter District Water and Sewerage (Amendment)

Act, 1906, are in this Act referred to, and may in any Act, regulations, or by-laws, or any instrument made

under the authority of any such Act, regulations or

by-laws, be cited as the " Hunter District Water and

Sewerage Acts, 1892-1921."

3. This Act is divided into Parts, as follows :—

P A R T I . — P R E L I M I N A R Y — s s . 1-4.

P A R T I I . — C O N S T I T U T I O N OF THE B O A R D — P E G U -

L A T I O N S — B Y - L A W S — s s . 5-13.

P A R T I I I . — V A L U A T I O N S AND BATES—DEFERRED

PAYMENTS—ss . 14, 15.

P A R T I V . — S T O R M W A T E R D R A I N S — F I N A N C E , &C.

— ss. 16-19.

4. Section two of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion in appropriate alphabetical order of definitions as follows : —

"Assessed annual value" shall have the meaning

defined in section seven of the Valuation of

Land Act, 1916, and shall in all cases be read

in place of the expression " net annual value " wherever occurring in this Act or any Act

amending or extending its provisions.

" Catchment area " means any area as defined from

time to time by proclamation from which the
supply of water is drawn.

"Domestic purposes" does not include a supply

of water for stables, for manufacturing, trade, or business purposes, for irrigation, for water
power, for fountains, for watering cattle or
horses, for watering gardens, or for washing

motor or other vehicles.

" Stormwater

" Stormwater drain " means any channel, natural

or artificial, whereby any surface water, liquid

refuse, or polluted waters, other than those

containing fiecal matter, is carried off.

P A R T IT.

CONSTITUTION OF THE B O A R O — R E G U L A T I O N S —

B Y - L A W S .

5. ( 1 ) This Part shall come into force on the first day

of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-
four.
( 2 ) Members of the Board in office at the date of the passing of this Act shall continue to hold office until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four. They shall thereupon cease to hold office, and shall not be entitled to compen­
sation by reason of their removal from office. They
shall, if otherwise qualified, be eligible for election or

appointment under this Act.

(3 ) I f an extraordinary vacancy occurs in the

Board prior to the thirty-first day of December, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, the Governor may appoint some person to till the vacancy until the said date.

6 . (1) Section five of the Principal Act is omitted and the following section is inserted in lieu thereof:—

5. ( 1 ) The authority empowered to carry out

the provisions of this Act, except such parts

thereof as empower the Minister to complete,
construct, or maintain works for water supply,

sewerage, or drainage, shall be the " Hunter
District Water Supply and Sewerage Board." The

Board shall be composed of nine persons.
(2) The Governor shall appoint one member of the Board, who shall be the president of the
Board.

(3)

(3) There shall be eight elected members of

the Board.

(4) The constituencies for elections shall include the areas as set out in the First Schedule to this Act. Each constituency shall return the number of members indicated in the said Schedule:

Provided that the Governor may by proclamation in

the Gazette add the names of other municipalities or shires which he is of opinion should be represented on the Board, to the names of the areas mentioned in the said Schedule, and may include such area in any of the constituencies named, and may re-group the areas included in the constituencies by including

or excluding areas from such constituencies, and

may alter the number of members to be returned

for each constituency.

(5) The member or members for a constituency

shall be elected by the aldermen and councillors of
the areas grouped therein.

(0) For the purposes of this section area shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Local

Government Act, 1919.

(2) The First Schedule to the Principal Act is

omitted and the following Schedule is inserted in lieu

thereof:—

F I R S T S C H E D U L E .

No. of

Members

Constituencies. Areas. to be

returned.

First	City of Newcastle . .	One.
Second	Stockton, Canington, Wickham,	two.

Waratah.

Third Merewether, Hamilton, Adams T w o .

town, New Lambton, Lambton.

Fourth	Wallsend, Lake Macquarie, Tarro	One.
Fifth	West Maitland, East Maitland,

Morpeth, and Bolwarra. One.

Sixth Cessnock . . .

One.

7 . Section seven of the Principal Act is amended by

omitting all the words after "years" where first occurring
and inserting in substitution therefor " Provided that of ;
the members elected in December, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-four, four shall hold office for two
years only. The determination as to which members
are to hold office for two years only shall be made by
lot in the manner prescribed. Any member retiring
in accordance with this provision shall, if otherwise
qualified, be eligible for re-election.

8 . Section eight of the Principal Act is amended by

omitting the words " the Governor shall appoint some
member of the Board to be their president and."

9 . Section nine of the Principal Act is amended by

omitting " one hundred " and inserting " one hundred
and fifty."

1 0 . Sections thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, and seven­ teen of the Principal Act are repealed, and the following sections are inserted in the place of those sections : —

14. (1) Elections to till other than extraordinary vacancies shall be held in the month of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty- four, and in the same month in every second year thereafter.

(2) Members elected at the periodical

elections in December shall assume office as from
the first day of January following.

Hi. Every person shall be eligible for election as a member of the Board if at the time of the holding

of any election he possesses in and for any muni­
cipality or shire named in the First Schedule or in any proclamation made in pursuance of section live

of this Act, the qualification, and is not within any

disqualification, prescribed and imposed in respect
of the office of alderman or councillor by the Local

Government Act, 1919, or any Act amending or consolidating the same.

17. Al l elections shall be conducted in the manner
prescribed by regulations made by the Governor,

which shall also prescribe the notice to be given

of

of such elections, the method of nominating

candidates, the appointment and duties of returning

officers and other electoral officers, and such other
matters as may require to be prescribed.

1 1 Sections twenty-eight and twenty-nine of the Principal Act are repealed.

1 2 . (1) Sections thirty-five of the Principal Act, thirteen, fifteen, eighteen, nineteen, and forty-eight of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Act

Amendment Act, 1897, and seventeen of the Hunter
District Water and Sewerage (Amendment) Act, 1906, are hereby repealed.

( 2 ) The following sections are inserted in the

Principal Act :—

35. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board may from time to time make, alter, and

repeal by-laws in relation to—

Catchment area.

(i)   the marking of the boundaries of any catch­ ment area:

(ii)  the protection of any catchment area or any watercourse or reservoir therein from pollu­ tion, and the protection of any property of the Board on any catchment area;

(iii)   the inspection of land and buildings upon any catchment area ;

(iv) the regulation or the prohibition of burials

on any catchment area ;

(v)   the authorising of the carrying out by the Board of structural alteration of buildings

or other works to prevent or minimise danger
of pollution of any catchment area ;

(vi)   requiring the removal of buildings or works on any catchment area ;

(vii)  preventing the diversion of or taking of Mater from any natural or artificial water- course, the water of which flows into the Board's works, except by or under the authority of the Board or of any statute ;

(viii)

(viii)   the prevention of the destruction of trees or shrubs, and the authorising of measures necessary to preserve or provide arboreal

cover ;

(ix)  any matter which by this Act the Board is authorised to control, regulate, or prohibit.

Water supply.

(x)   the determining, making, and levying the water rate to be paid in respect of property ratable for water supply. No such rate shall exceed the amount of seven and one-

half pounds per centum on the assessed

annual value : Provided that a minimum
rate on each property of fifteen shillings

may be imposed ;

(xi)   the appointment of a scale of charges for water supplied by measure, and the minimum charge in any such case;

(xii)  the determining, making, and levying of the charges to be paid in addition to the rate, in respect of any property where water is used for other than domestic purposes and the supply is not through a meter ;

(xiii)   the determining of the time when rates and charges for water shall be payable, and whether in advance or otherwise ;

(xiv)   the regulation of water service pipes and fittings between the water main and the outlets of such pipes, the construction,

maintenance, repair, renewal, or (clearing of alteration, extension, disconnection, removal,

any water service pipes and fittings, the performance by the Board of any work required to be performed as a result of default of the person concerned, and the

recovery of any expense so incurred ;

(xv)   the direction and regulation as to the use, supply, fixing, maintenance, repair, removal, and inspection of meters;

(xvi)  the prevention of the waste or misuse or the unlawful taking of water ;

(xvii)

(xvii)   the assessment of the volume of water lost by leakages upon any property, the determina­ tion of the volume to be paid for by the consumer, and the recovery of payment therefor;

(xviii)   the regulation of the method by which water shall be supplied to ratable properties or to any consumer.

Sewerage.

(xix)   The determining, making, and levying the rate to be paid in respect of each property ratable for sewerage. No such rate shall

exceed seven and one-half pounds per centum

on the assessed annual value of the property ratable : Provided that a minimum rate on each property of fifteen shillings may be

imposed;

(xx)   the regulation of sewerage service pipes and

fittings, the construction, alteration, exten­
sion, disconnection, removal, maintenance, repair, renewal, ventilation, flushing, and cleansing of any such service pipes and fittings, the performance by the Board of any work required to be performed as a result of default of the person concerned, and the recovery of any expense so incurred;

(xxi)   the regulation or prevention of the discharge into any sewer of the Board of roof waters and other surface waters, and for preventing

the admission of any dust, soil, rubbish, filth,

or garbage ;

(xxii)    the regulation of the conditions to be observed

with regard to liquid trade or factory wastes,
or chemical or other impurities before they

are discharged into the Board's sewers, and
the prevention of such discharge ;

(xxiii)   prescribing the extent of water closet and urinal accommodation to be provided for premises, and for the alteration of existing premises to conform to the requirements of the Board in such matters.

Stormwater

Stormwater drainage.

(xxiv)   the determining, making, and levying the drainage rate to he paid in respect of each property in a drainage area according

to the benefit which, in the opinion of
the Hoard, accrues to such property from the construction of stormwater drainage works.

No such rate shall exceed the amount of

three pounds per centum per annum on the assessed annual value : Provided that a minimum rate on each property of two shillings and sixpence may he imposed ;

(xxv)   regulating and preventing the discharge of urine, faecal matter, liquid wastes, and polluted waters into stormwater drains, and preventing obstruction to the free flow of waters in such drains.

General.

(xxvi)   the regulation of the number, design, dimension, level, materials, and form of all pipes and fittings which the Board may require to be provided and used in con­ nection with any water supply, sewerage, or stormwater drainage service ;

(xxvii)   the regulation of the testing, stamping, and marking of fittings intended for use in con­

nection with any of the Board's water, sewerage, or drainage services ;

(xxviii)	the conditions upon which licenses or certi­ ficates of competency shall be issued to persons applying therefor, and the amount
of fees to be charged ;

(xxix)  the prescribing of the fees to be paid for the connection of any premises with the Board's water or sewerage services, for examining and preparing drainage plans and estimates, and such other fees as may lawfully be

imposed ;

( x x x )

(xxx)   the prescribing of tlie form of any notice or other document to be prepared, issued, or received in accordance with this Act and any by-laws thereunder;

(xxxi)   the protection of the property of the Board from damage and trespass, and the water supply from pollution;

(xxxii)  for the governance of the officers and servants of the Board, the regulation of their conditions of employment, and for their guidance in the execution of their duties;

(xxxiii) the conduct of the business of the Board;

(xxxiv)   the carrying into effect the several provisions, intentions, and objects of this Act.

(2) In any by-laws made by the Board rates

and charges may lie uniform or on a differential
basis or sliding scale as the Board may determine.

(3) No by-law or proceedings taken there­ under shall be deemed to be invalid by reason only

that the estimates made by the Board of expenditure

or revenue were inaccurate.

(4) Where any owner or occupier of land within a catchment area is prejudicially affected by the operation of any by-laws made respecting that catchment ana, he shall be entitled to be paid compensation by the Board in respect of the damage sustained by him.

30. By-laws and regulations made under the provisions of this Act shall—	(a) be published in the Gazette ;
(b) take effect from the date of publication

provided that by-laws determining, making, or levying rates shall upon publication, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to have been in force from the commencement of the then current rating year;

(c) be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen sifting days after publication

if Parliament is in session, and if not then

within

within fourteen sitting days after the com-

mencement of the next session. If either House of Parliament pass a resolution of which notice has been given at any time within

fifteen sitting days after such by-law has

been laid before such House disallowing any

by-law or part thereof, such by-law or part

shall thereupon cease to have effect.

1 3 . (1) Section forty-two of the Principal Act is amended by omitting all words after " A c t " where the second time occurring, and inserting in substitution therefor the words " or any Act amending or extending its provisions, and for prescribing the form of any notice

or other document under this Act or any Act amending or extending its provisions, and requirements to be
observed in the payment of expenditure incurred by

the Board."

(2) Section six of the Hunter District Water

and Sewerage Act Amendment Act, 1897, is amended by omitting the words " Pour hundred and forty "
wherever occurring and inserting in lieu thereof the

words " T w o hundred and fifty."

P A R T I I I .

VALUATIONS AND RATES—DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

1 4 .     (1) Section nine of the Hunter District Water,

and Sewerage Act Amendment Act, 1897, is amended—

(a) in subsection one by omitting the words " by

two competent valuers, of whom the assessor to the Board for the time being shall be one,

in the form or to the effect of Schedule A hereto " and inserting in substitution therefor the words " in the prescribed form " ; and by omitting Schedule A to that Ac t ;

(b) by omitting subsections two and four;

(c) in subsection six by omitting " in the form or to the effect of Schedule A hereto."

(2)

(2) Sections nine and ten of the same Act are

amended by inserting before " municipal council" in the expression " valuation then in force of any municipal

council," wherever occurring, the words " shire or."

(3) Section ten of the same Act is amended in

paragraph (I) by inserting after "may " the words " in each year" ; and in paragraph (II I ) by omitting " muni­
cipal " where secondly occurring.

(4) Section fourteen of the same Act is repealed

and the following section is inserted in substitution
therefor:—

14. The Board shall levy and collect such rates, charges, and sums of money as shall be sufficient to cover the annual sums required for carrying out the

provisions of the Hunter District Water and Sewer­ age Acts, 1892-1924, in respect of the water

supply, sewerage, and stormwater drainage services, including the payment of the salaries and remunera­ tion of the president, vice-president, and other members of the Hoard :

Provided that in respect of each such service the

deficit or surplus on the preceding year's operations shall be brought forward and added to or deducted

from the estimated annual sum required for the
carrying out of each such respective service for the

next following year.

(5) A new section is inserted in the same Act

next after section nineteen: —

19A. (1) The Board may determine whether for be levied—	any year the rates to be levied, or any of them, shall	(a)	upon the assessed annual value of the ratable property ; or
(b)	upon the unimproved value of the ratable property ; or
(c)	partly upon the assessed annual value and partly upon the unimproved value of the ratable property.
(2) For the purpose of securing compliance

with the provisions of this Act, as to the limitation
of rates, the Board shall before levying a rate in
pursuance

pursuance of paragraph (b) or (c) of the last pre­

ceding subsection, furnish the Government Statis­
tician with the details of the proposed rate.

(3) No rates shall be levied in pursuance of

paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection one

of this section unless and until the Government

Statistician furnishes a certificate to the Governor

(which shall be published in the Gazette) that the

revenue from any such proposed rate will not exceed

an amount approximately equal to—

(a) in the case of a water rate or a sewerage rate

seven and one-half per centum of the

assessed annual value of the property ratable ;
(b)	in the case of a stormwater drainage rate three per centum of the assessed annual value of the property ratable.

(J) No rates shall be levied in pursuance of

paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection one

of this section unless and until the Government

Statistician furnishes a certificate to the Governor
(which shall be published in the Gazette) that the

revenue from such proposed rates, so far as the same arc to be levied upon unimproved value, will not exceed the amount of the capital expenses.

(5) For the purposes of this section the

capital expenses shall mean the aggregate of the

following sums :—-

(a)	the interest charged for the preceding financial year on the total sum debited in the
that year in respect of capital expenditure; Treasury against the Board as at the end of
(b)	one per centum on such capital expenditure. (6) Any revenue raised from rates levied

upon unimproved value shall, so far as that revenue
exceeds such interest, be applied in reduction of

any sum debited against the Board in respect of
capital expenditure.

(7) In levying any rate under this section it shall be lawful for the Board to levy in respect

of any property ratable,—

(a)	for water supply—a minimum water rate of
fifteen shillings per annum; (b)

(1)) for sewerage—a minimum sewerage rate of fifteen shillings per annum ;

(c) for stormwater drainage—a minimum storm- water drainage rate of two shillings and six­ pence per annum.

(8) " Unimproved value" shall in this

section mean the unimproved value of the land as

stated in a valuation list issued under the Valuation
of Land Act, 1916, or in the case of land not

included in any valuation list the unimproved value as ascertained in accordance with the Local Government Act, 1919, or any Act amending the same.

(9) The valuation in force on the thirty-first

day of December immediately preceding the giving

of a certificate by the Government Statistician or
the making of a rate shall he the valuation to be

adopted for the purpose of such certificate or rate.

(6) Section thirty-five of the same Act is

repealed.
(7) Section forty-five of the same Act is amended by omitting the words " passed before the commence­
ment of this A c t " and the words "and sewers."

(8) A new section is inserted in the same Act

next after section forty-five as follows :—

45A. The Board may, subject to the provisions of Public Works Act, 1912, carry out any extensions or improvements of any works vested in it, and in such case all powers and liabilities exercisable by

1 5 . Section twelve of the Hunter District Water and Sewerage (Amendment) Act, 1900, is amended in subsection two by omitting the words " twenty pounds " and inserting in substitution therefor the words " thirty pounds." and attaching to the Constructing Authority shall be exercisable by and attach to the Board. PART

P A R T I V .

STORMWATER D R A I N S — F I N A N C E .

1 6 .    (1) Part I V of the Principal Act and Part I V

of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Act

Amendment Act, 1S97, are hereby repealed.

(2) The following new Parts are inserted in

the Principal Act :—

P A R T I V .

STORM WATER DRAINS.

129. The Governor may, by proclamation in

the Gazette, direct that any stormwater drains

now or hereafter constructed therein described be

vested in the Board.

130. In respect of any drains vested in the Board
in pursuance of the next preceding section, the

control and management of the drains shall be absolutely transferred to the Board, and all lands, buildings, works, material, plant, plans, documents, and all other property whatsoever connected there­

with shall be vested in the Board for an estate

in fee-simple without any further conveyance or

transfer.

131. As soon as practicable after any such transfer to the Board of any stormwater drain—

(a) the Board shall define the boundaries of the drainage area in respect of any such drain, and shall cause notice thereof to he published in the Gazette, and at least

twice in some newspaper or newspapers

circulating in such area, and to be given

to the council of any municipality or shire
constituting or forming part of such area. Such notices shall state that an appeal against such definition of the boundaries may be made within thirty days from the date of the last of such publications ;

(b)

(b) within such thirty days any person inter- ested may appeal against such definition

of boundaries to a stipendiary or police

magistrate, appointed by the Governor in
that behalf, and sitting in open court
within such area or convenient thereto ;

(c) notice of the day and place of hearing of appeals shall be published by the Board by advertisement in the Gazette and in one or

more newspapers circulating in such area;

(d) such magistrate shall hear such appeal, and for that purpose shall have the powers

of a court of petty sessions, and may con­

firm or make such alterations in the boun­

daries of the area as he may think just, having regard to the benefit derived, or to be derived, by the owners or occupiers of properties within such drainage area from the construction of such works or the actual use thereof, or the right to the use thereof;

(e) where the boundaries of such area are con-

firmed, such magistrate shall attest by his

signature the Gazette notice of such boundaries, and where such boundaries arc altered the magistrate shall there and then amend and alter such notice accordingly, and attest the same as so altered ;

(f) the boundaries as defined by the Board,

with such alterations (if any) as may be.

made therein on appeal as aforesaid, shall be the boundaries of such drainage area

for the purposes of this Act.

132. Subject to the provisions of this Act, drainage rates may be enforced and recovered in respect of each and every property situated within the boundaries of any drainage area. Differential rates may be levied in respect of different zones as

defined by by-law. Any drainage rate imposed on

property may be in addition to any sewerage rate

imposed thereon.

133. Subject to the provisions of this Act the

Minister may from time to time construct storm-
water drains or alter or extend any stormwater
drains vested in the Board.

133A. The Board shall maintain, repair, and cleanse all stormwater drains transferred to and

vested in or constructed or acquired by it, and shall

keep the same so as not to be a nuisance or injurious

to health.

P A R T I V A .

FINANCE.

133B. (1) As soon as practicable after the thirtieth day of June in each year the Minister shall cause statements to be prepared and furnished

to the Board showing the respective amounts

expended up to that day on all works constructed
by or vested in the Board—

(a)	in the purchase or acquisition of land and on permanent or other works which do not require maintenance or reconstruction ;
(b)	on works which may require maintenance or reconstruction.

(2) On receipt of any such statements the

Board may report to the Minister, making such
recommendations as may be thought fit.

(3) The Minister shall consider the said

report, and shall finally determine the respective amounts and the classification of the expenditure,

and shall notify the same in the Gazette.

(4) The Governor may make such partial

remissions of or deductions from the amounts
expended as he may think just.

133c. All revenue of the Board shall be paid into the Treasury, or into the bank keeping the public account, and all necessary expenditure in manage- ment and all working expenses shall be advanced to the Board out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

The provisions of the Audit Act, 1902, shall

apply to the Board, and to all officers acting under
its authority and control.

133D.

17. The Principal Act is further amended by

omitting from section ninety-one all words after the

words " the same " and by adding the following new

subsections : —

(2) No water rates shall be leviable upon land

vested in the Railway Commissioners for New

South Wales in use for railway or tramway purposes and not let to any other person.

(3) The Board may supply the Railway Commis­ sioners for New South Wales with water by measure at a charge to be fixed by the by-laws.

(4) Sewerage rates may be levied upon land

which is vested in the Bail way Commissioners for

New South Wales if—

(a) the land is let to any other person ; or

(b)	there are buildings on such land, and the
sewage from such buildings is drained into a sewer of the Board ; or
(c)	there is a sewer of the Board in a road to

which such land has frontage, or in the land,

and there are buildings on such land, the

sewage from which could be drained into
such sewer, and such sewer is not distant

more than one hundred and fifty feet from

such buildings.

The land upon which the rates may be levied, if in use for railway or tramway purposes, is the land in connection with which the buildings aforesaid

are used, and such land shall be deemed to be the	mean width of frontage of platforms or buildings in
the case of railway stations, tramway depots, work- shops, offices, or other similar buildings used in connection with the operations of the railway or tramway systems, excepting any buildings separately
enclosed by fences, which shall be assessed on the
mean frontage of the enclosed area.

18. (1) The Governor may, by proclamation published in the Gazette, proclaim any lands to be a catchment area in connection with the supply of water

by the Board.

(2 )

(2) The Governor may, by like proclamation, at any time revoke and cancel the proclamation of any catchment area and reproclaim the boundaries thereof, and may by like proclamation amend the boundaries of any catchment area previously thereto proclaimed under this Act or any Act repealed thereby.

(3) After the passing of this Act it shall not be

lawful to make any conditional or other sales or to grant

any lease or license under the Crown Lands Consolida­ tion Act, 1913, of any Crown lands within any catchment area.

(4) A license granted under section twenty-six

of the Forestry Act, 1912, shall not, unless with the con­

sent of the Board, apply to land within a catchment area.

(5) The Board may undertake or arrange for the

plantation of and the provision of arboreal cover for any catchment area, and may undertake or arrange; for the cutting and marketing of timber of commercial value cut upon any catchment area.

(1) The Board may in the manner prescribed by the by-laws control and regulate the sanitation of any catchment area, and the sanitation, use, and occupation of premises thereon so as to avoid any insanitary condition thereon or any interference therefrom with the purity of the water supply.

19.

(2) In particular and without limiting the

foregoing power the Board may with respect to any

catchment area, and for the purposes of the preservation of the purity of the water supply and the prevention of the pollution of the catchment area—	(a)	control, regulate, and require privy accom­ modation in premises and require special treat­ ment or disposal of any faecal or excrementitious matter ;
(b)	require premises to be kept free from rubbish
or offensive or unwholesome matter ;
(c)	require premises to be cleansed, disinfected, and limewashed;
(d)	control and regulate the drains of premises including the alteration of any drain:

(e)

(e) control and regulate the erection of pigsties,

cow-yards, poultry-houses, or yards, stock--

yards, or stables, and prescribe the distance

from any watercourse or reservoir within

which no such structure shall be erected or continued, and require methods to be adopted, by the cultivation of land or otherwise, whereby the drainage or stormwater from the land occupied by such structures shall be prevented

from polluting the water supply ;

(f) control and regulate the disposal of trade refuse from tanneries, breweries, chemical

works, butter, cheese, or bacon factories,

creameries, wool scours, or other industrial operations so that any pollution of the water supply may be avoided ;

(g) control and regulate and, within limits defined

in the by-laws, prevent picnicking, camping,

shooting, fishing, flower gathering, or the parking of motor or other vehicles ;
(h)	control and regulate the methods to be adopted

for the destruction of rabbits or other vermin

and the disposal of their bodies ;

(i)  control and regulate the slaughtering of beasts and the disposal of offal;

(j)	control and regulate the sanitation of camps
of workmen engaged in construction of public or other works;
(k)	control and regulate the sanitation of areas

specially set apart for picnicking, camping, or

the parking of motor or other vehicles ;

(1) require the notification to the board by house­ holder or occupier of any premises within the catchment area of the occurrence of any case	of typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, cholera, or
epidemic diarrhoea on his premises, and the notification to the board by any medical
practitioner in attendance on any such case;

(m) and generally to control and regulate or pro­ hibit the doing or continuance of anything

likely to cause the pollution of a catchment

area or the water supply.

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