Provided further that the Commissioner, shall, with the sanction of the council, pay compensation to any person who sustains damage by the exercise of such power.

Prohibition against making connection with mains without permission.(1) No person shall, without the previous permission of the Commissioner, make any connection with any municipal cable, wire, pipe, drain or channel or with the house connection of any other person.

1. (2) The Commissioner may, by notice, require any connection made in contravention of sub-section (1) to be demolished, removed, closed, altered or remade.