Construction and maintenance of water works

(1) The municipal council may, with the sanction of the Government, direct the construction of such works as it deems fit outside the limits of the municipality for supplying it with water and may provide channels, tanks, reservoirs, cisterns, engines, mains, wells, fountains, standpipes, and other works as it may deem fit within the said limits for the use of the inhabitants.

1. (2) The council may cause existing works for the supply of water to be maintained and supplied with water, or it may close any such works and substitute other such works and may cause them to be maintained and supplied with water.