Victorian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1958 - SECT 156

Penalty for giving use of drain without permission

156. Penalty for giving use of drain without permission

Every person who has received permission to connect a private sewer or drain
with any sewer vested in the Board who neglects to repair or cleanse such
permitted branch sewer or drain according to the directions of the officer
appointed in that behalf by the Board, or who wilfully permits any other
person not having the authority or consent of the Board to use such permitted
sewer or drain or any branch into the same, shall for every such offence be
liable to a penalty of not more than 10 penalty units over and above the full
amount of the damage sustained by the Board by the acts or means in respect of
which such penalty is incurred; and the Board shall be at liberty to cut off
from its sewer the drain of every person so offending.