Power to supply water fittings, etc

(1) A licensee may on the request of any person to whom he supplies or proposes to supply water or whom he has provided or whom he proposes to provide with sewerage facilities supply to him by way either of sale or hire any such water fittings or sanitary conveniences and appliances as the case may be, as are required or allowed by this Act or any bye- laws made thereunder and may on such request, install, repair or alter any such water fittings or such sanitary convenience or appliance whether supplied by him or not, as the case may be, and may provide any materials and do any work required in connection with such installation, repair or alteration of water fittings or sanitary conveniences or appliances, as the case may be. (2) A licensee may make such charges as may be agreed or, in default of agreements, as may be reasonable for any fittings or sanitary convenience or appliance supplied, or any materials provided or work done, under this sub-section and may recover such charges as civil debts. (3) Any fittings or sanitary conveniences or appliances let for hire by a licensee– (a) shall, notwithstanding that they be fixed to some part of the premises in which they are situated or be laid in the soil thereunder, continue to be the property of and be removable by the licensee; and (b) shall not be subject to distress or to a landlord’s remedy for rent, or is liable to be taken in execution under any process of any court or in any proceedings in bankruptcy against the persons in whose possession they may be, so however that nothing in this sub- section shall affect the valuation for rating of any rateable hereditament. (4) If any person wilfully or negligently damages or suffers to be damaged, any water fitting or sanitary convenience or appliance belonging to a licensee, he commits an offence and is 108 liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment and the licensee may do all such work as is necessary for repairing any damage done and may recover the expenses reasonably incurred by him in so doing from the offender as a civil debt.