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section 36

Notices

The Sikkim Water Supply and Water Charges Act, 2025
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  1. (1) Where any notice, issued under this Act or the rules, requires anything to be done, for the doing of which no time is fixed in this Act or the rules, the notice, Act, order or requisition shall specify a reasonable time for doing the same.
  2. (2) All notices, required by this Act or the rules to be served upon, or issued to, any person, shall be served or issued by such persons as may be authorized by the Department.
  3. (3) Every notice, document required or authorised by this Act or the rules, to be served or issued on any person shall, save as otherwise provided in this Act or such rule, be deemed to be duly served.
  4. (4) Any notice which is required or authorized to be served on the owner or occupier of any premises, may be addressed as, ‘the owner’ or ‘the occupier’ as the case may be, of that land or building (identifying that land or building) without further name of description, and shall be deemed to be duly served.
  5. (5) For the purpose of enabling any notice to be served on the owner of any premises, the Public Health Engineer or any other officer authorized or empowered to do so may, by notice in writing require the occupier of the premises to state the name and address of the owner thereof.
  6. (6) Where the person on whom a notice upon his guardian or any adult member of his family shall be deemed to be served upon the minor.
  7. (7) Nothing in the sub-sections
  8. (1) to
  9. (5) shall apply to any summons issued under this Act by a Court.
  10. (8) In the event of non-compliance with the terms and conditions of any notice, Act issued to any person or occupier or consumer under this Act or any Rule made hereunder, within the period stipulated in such notice or Act, the competent authority shall be entitled to initiate appropriate legal proceedings or take such action as provided under this Act and rules framed there under.
  11. (9) No notice, order, requisitions, permission in writing or any other document issued under this Act or the rules shall be invalid merely by reason of any defect in form or detail.

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