General powers of Boards

(1) Each Board is responsible for, (a) all operations and maintenance activities necessary for the uninterrupted service of water in respect of its village or community; (b) regulating pumping hours to ensure uninterrupted and continuous water supply; (c) keeping proper records and account in respect of its activities; (d) undertaking expansion of the water supply system for its village or community as occasion demands; (e) carrying out disconnection procedures; (f) collecting user fees; (g) pipes in its or (h) effectively and efficiently undertaking any other function related to the supply of water in its village or community. (2) A Board may from time to time in respect of the village or community for which it is constituted, (a) cause fixtures and fittings to be erected and pipes to be laid and carried through, across, over or under any land whatever, enclosed or otherwise, private or public, after reasonable notice in that behalf to the owner or occupier, if any, of such land; 32 (b) enter or authorise any of its employees to enter upon any land whatever, enclosed or otherwise, private or public, and where possible after reasonable notice to the owner or occupier, if any, of such land, and to remain thereon as long as may be reasonably necessary for the purpose of or incidental to the exercise of any power or the discharge of any duty of the Board, or for carrying into effect any of the provisions of this Act. (3) In the exercise of the powers conferred under subsection (2) of this section, a Board shall not be deemed to acquire any right other than that of user only in or over the soil of any land whatever through, across, over or under which it places any of its works; and should any of such works so carried through, across, over or under any such land become a nuisance or the cause of pecuniary loss to the owner of such land, the Board shall give pecuniary compensation as provided in subsections (4) and (5) of this section. (4) In the exercise of the powers given under subsection (2) of this section, a Board shall do no more damage than is necessary in the circumstances and shall make full pecuniary compensation to any person interested for all damage sustained by him by reason or in consequence of the exercise of such (5) In the event of disagreement, the amount of such pecuniary compensation shall be determined by the Minister, but no compensation whatever is payable in respect of any right of user acquired by a Board under subsection (2) of this section.