Responsibility for damage caused by leakage of water.-

Neither the owner nor occupier of any land or building in which pipes, mains or other works are situated, nor the Corporation shall be liable to pay compensation to any person for any damage caused by any leakage of water or any failure to keep in repair such pipes, mains or other works, unless the owner or occupier or the Corporation. has knowledge there of and has failed to take reasonably prompt action to report the same to the prescribed officer or to stop the leakage or to execute the required repairs, as the case may be.