South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WATERWORKS ACT 1932 - SECT 50

50—Penalty for breaking fittings

Every person who, not being authorised thereto by the Corporation—

            (a)         wilfully or carelessly breaks, injures, or opens, or wilfully permits to be broken, injured, or opened, any lock, cock, valve, pipe, or other fitting, or any work or engine belonging to the Corporation; or

            (b)         flushes, or draws off the water from the reservoirs or other works of the Corporation; or

            (c)         does any other wilful act, or wilfully permits to be done any act whereby such water shall be wasted,

shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one thousand dollars and in addition shall be liable to pay to the Corporation the amount of damage to which the Corporation may be put in respect thereof, as well for the value of the water wasted as in repairing such fittings or other parts of the works, and the amount of such damage shall be ascertained, determined, and recovered in the same manner as such penalty and may be recovered and ordered to be paid by the court imposing such penalty in the same proceedings.