section 8
Power to cut water supply
The Sikkim Water Supply and Water Charges Act, 2025Infrastructure202543 sections
Statutory text
- (1) The competent authority may cut off the water supply from any premise-
- (a) if any fee, rental, cost of water or any charge or other sum due under this Act is not paid by the consumer within the period of 15 (fifteen) days after receipt of an Act;
- (b) after the receipt of a written notice from the competent authority requiring him to refrain from so doing, the consumer continues to use the water or permits the same to be used in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules;
- (c) if the consumer or occupier damages or causes to be damaged the water meter or any connection pipe or ferrules or water works; or
- (d) if the consumer refuses to admit any officer or his employee of the Government duly authorised by the competent authority, into the premises which he proposes to enter for the purposes of executing any work or placing or removing any apparatus or of making any examination or inquiry in connection with the water supply or prevents any such officer or his employee, from executing any work or placing or removing any apparatus or making such other examination or inquiry or for the administration of the provisions of this Act or Rules made therein; or
- (e) if the service pipe or any tap or other fittings or works connected therewith is found on examination by an officer of the Government duly authorized in this behalf or by his employee to be out of repair to such extent as to cause wastage or contamination of water and immediate prevention thereof is necessary; or
- (f) if the consumer causes or allows to be caused the service pipe or any tap or other fittings or works connected therewith to be placed, removed, repaired or otherwise interfered with, in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules; or
- (g) if by reason of leakage in the service pipe or any tap or other fittings or works, damage is caused to a public street or any private or public property and immediate prevention thereof is necessary; or
- (h) if the owner or the consumer causes or allows to be caused the insertion of any fittings or pumps for extracting water directly from the service pipe of Government's main; or
- (i) if the owner or occupier neglects to comply with any lawful order or requisition regarding water supply issued by the Department within the period specified therein; or
- (j) if the owner or consumer fails to provide proper disposal or treatment of the used water in its premises in accordance with the provisions of the Sikkim Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Act, 2025 or the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (No. 6 of 1974); or
- (k) if the owner or occupier or consumer fails to comply with any provisions of this Act or the Sikkim Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Act, 2025 or the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (No. 6 of 1974).
- (2) Action taken under this section against any person shall be without prejudice to any penalties to which he may otherwise be liable under any other provision of this Act or the rules made hereunder or under any other Law.
- (3) The competent authority may order reconnection of supply of water disconnected under sub-section
- (1) on payment of such charges and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed in the rules.
- (4) The owner and the occupier of the premises shall jointly and severally be liable for penalty and also liable to pay the expenses of cutting off the supply.
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