Victorian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1958 - SECT 70

Owner or occupier of any tenement may lay service pipes

70. Owner or occupier of any tenement may lay service pipes

The owner or occupier of any tenement or part thereof who wishes to have water
from a pipe of the Board brought into such tenement and who has paid or has
tendered to the Board the rates and charges then payable in respect thereof
and who has, if so required by the Board, entered into an agreement pursuant
to section 184C may between such tenement and the pipe of the Board open and
break up the soil and pavement of any street and any drain in such street and
may lay pipes to communicate with the pipe of the Board. He shall do as little
damage as may be and in respect of any damage shall be liable to make
compensation to the Board council or person having the care and management of
such street or drain.

He shall be subject to the like necessity of giving previous notice and to the
like control restrictions and obligations in and during the time of breaking
up and reinstating the same and to the like penalties for delay in regard
thereto as is the Board by virtue of this Act. He may also for the said
purposes open any ground between the pipes of the Board and such tenement
having first obtained the consent of the owner and occupier of such ground and
lay pipes to communicate with the pipe of the Board.