This legislation has been repealed.
59—Waste material from gasworks
Every person making or supplying gas within the limits of a water district,
who at any time causes or suffers to be brought or to flow into any stream,
reservoir, aqueduct, or waterworks belonging to the Corporation, or into any
drain, communicating therewith, any washing or other substance which is
produced in making or supplying gas, or who wilfully does any act, connected
with the making or supplying of gas, whereby the water in any such stream,
reservoir, aqueduct, or other waterworks is fouled, or the pipes or conduits
thereof injured, shall forfeit to the Corporation the sum of two thousand
dollars, to be recovered with full costs in the Supreme Court for each day
during which such washing or other substance is brought or flows as aforesaid,
or during which the act continues by which such water is fouled, after the
expiration in either case of twenty-four hours from the time when notice of
offence has been served on such person by the Corporation.