Water Supply (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations, 1998

L.N.213 of 1998

WATER SERVICES CORPORATION ACT, 1991

(ACT NO.X)(ITI OF 1991)

Water Supply (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations, 1998

IN exercise of the powers conferred by sections 27 and 45 of the

Water Services Corporation Act , I 99 I , the Water Services Corporation ,

with the approval of the Minister of Pubtic Works and Construction,

has made the following regulations:-

(1) These regulations rnay be cited as the Water Supply ciuti-

comrEn@Inent'

(Amendmen| (No.2) Regulations, tgxja, and sha[ be read and construed

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as one with the Water Supply Regulations, 1948, hereinafter refened to

as "the principal regulations".

(2) Thesp regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 5th November, 1997, but shall not apply to bills issued

according to the first readings of the meters taken after that date.

Immediately after paragra.ph 2 of the Schedule to the principal 1119. "

regulations, there shall be added-thi following proviso

llffillir"

to

"Provided that, if a consumer proves to the satisfaction of the'"eul"do*'

Corporation that, besides his residence as determined in accordance

with the provisions of these regulations, he also has registered in

his name

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(a) one other tenement which he also uses to reside in,

and/or

(b) a garage that is used exclusively for domestic

purposes and/or to park a vehicle that is not used for

commercial/industrial activities,

such consurner shall be entitled to a subsidy which shall be

calculated as if one person only resides in every one of those

tenements ." .

For paragraph 4 of the Schedule to the principal regulations, Am€ods ,

there shall belubstituted the following ,

:t",ff;'$;r"

to ttle principal

"4. where a consumer, irrespective of his age, salisfies the t"8d"do*'

Director (Social Security) that he is neither employed nor self-

employed , and that he forms a single person family , or lives together

with his wife or her husband, if there is one, to the exclusion

of

other members, and that he is in receipt of an income which

when

calculated according to the second part of the second

schedule of

the Social Security Act entitles him or his wife, as the

case may

be, to such assistance, such consumer, in any period

offour months,

shall be entitled to a rebate (in addition tothe subsidy referred

to

in paragrapll 2 of this Schedule) of Lmg service chirge

for one

service installed in the premises

Provided that no such rebate shall be granted unless

the

Director (Social Security) certifies the consurier to be

endtled to

the said rebate under these provisions or where

the Director(iocial

Je.unty) deems that otler members living with the consumer

form

a separate family

Provided also that the Minister responsible for social

security

may allow the said rebate in respect ofiuch charitable

insitutions

as the said Minister may declare to be financially

meritorious.-.

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