Water connections, etc

(1) The owner, agent or occupier of any premises in or for which any water closets are provided, shall cause such water closet to be at all times properly supplied with a sufficient quantity of water. (2) Every water closet shall be provided with a separate cistern or flushing box of adequate capacity. (3) No part of the water closet apparatus other than the cistern or flushing box, shall be directly connected with any pipe leading from a public water main or supply. (4) A water closet shall be provided with a pan, a basin or suitable receptacle of non-absorbent material so constructed as to receive, and to retain a sufficient quantity of water, adequate to seal or to trap such pan, basin or other receptacle, and to allow any filth to fall free from the sides directly into the water. (5) A water closet shall be provided with suitable apparatus for the effectual application of water in the cistern or flushing box to the pan, basin or other receptacle, and for the prompt and effectual flushing and cleaning of the pan. Public Health 29 (6) No container or similar fitting shall be fitted under the pan or basin or receptacle. (7) Dwelling-houses provided with a flush water closet shall (unless other means for disposal of sewerage are submitted to and specially approved by the Senior Health Officer) be provided with a septic tank approved by the Senior Health Officer. (8) The person in occupation of or having charge, management or control of the premises, or if there be no such person, then any person in occupation of, or having the charge, management or control of any part of the premises, and in the case of any premises the whole of which is let to lodgers, whether on his own account or as agent for another person, shall for the purpose of this By-law be deemed the occupier.