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section 25

Prohibition of certain acts affecting the water works

The Sikkim Water Supply and Water Charges Act, 2025
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  1. (1) No person shall, -
    • (a) remove, alter, injure, damage or in any way interfere with any water works;
    • (b) carry on within the area aforesaid any operation of manufacture, trade or agriculture or do any acts whereby injury may be caused or is likely to be caused to any such water works or whereby the water of any such water works may be fouled, polluted or tender such water to be less wholesome;
    • (c) cause or suffer to percolate or drain into or upon any water works, anything, whereby the water therein may be in any way be fouled, polluted or its quality altered;
    • (d) cause or allow to enter any animal into such water works;
    • (e) bathe or wash clothes in such water works;
    • (f) throw or put anything into or upon such the water in such water works;
    • (g) wilfully or negligently obstruct any person in the discharge of his duties under this Act or rules in setting out the lines of any works or pull or remove any pillar, post or stake fixed in the ground for the purpose of setting out the lines of such work or deface or destroy any works made for the same purpose;
    • (h) obstruct any officer or employee of the Department in the discharge of his duties under this Act or rules, or refuse or wilfully neglect to furnish him with the means necessary for the making of any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry hereunder in relation to any water works; or
      • (i) obstruct the flow off, flush, draw off or divert, or take, water from any water works belonging to the Department or any water course by which any such water is supplied; or
    • (j) do any other acts which the Government may, by notification, prohibit.
  2. (2) nothing in clause
    • (a) of sub-section
  3. (1) shall apply to a consumer closing the stop-cock fixed on the service pipe supplying water to his premises so long as he has obtained the consent of any other consumer or occupier whose supply will be affected thereby.

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