General duties of licensees with respect to disconnections

(1) Where a licensee– (a) disconnects a service pipe to any inhabited house, or otherwise cuts off a supply of water to such a house; and 112 (b) does so without restoring the supply to that house before the end of the period of twenty- four hours beginning with the time when it is the licensee shall, no later than twenty-four hours after that time, serve notice that he has cut off that supply, on the local authority in whose area the house is situated. (2) A licensee who fails, without reasonable excuse, to serve a notice on a local authority as required by sub-section (1), commits an offence under this section. (3) A licensee commits an offence under this section if– (a) he disconnects a service pipe to any premises, or otherwise cuts off a supply of water to any premises, in a case in which he has no power to do so under sections 131 to 133, or any other enactment; or (b) in disconnecting any such pipe or cutting off any such supply he fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any requirement of the provisions in pursuance of which he disconnects the pipe or cuts off the supply. (4) A licensee who commits an offence under this section is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term of twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment.