137. Persons employed to collect moneys to pay same to bank in the form they receive them. Mode of payment into bank.

Persons employed to collect moneys to make

returns.

Failure to do so an offence.

138. Annual statement.

139. Annual balance and audit.

140. Annual statement to be open to inspection. 141. Special meeting for settling the accounts. 142. Persons who may be present at the meeting. Disallowance of items.

Recovery of disallowed items. 143. Annual abstract of accounts. 144. Special audit.

Powers of special auditor.

Arrangements for special audit.

145. Accounts to be balanced for special audit. 146. Special auditor to report to Minister.

Allowance or disallowance of certificate to be gazetted.

147. Order gazetted to be conclusive evidence. 143. Special auditor shall hear explanations. 149. Cost of special audit how borne.

Special audit.

172. Quorum of commissioners.

Chairman.

173. Commissioners to appoint officers.

Commissioners to take security from officers intrusted with money.

174. Commissioners to enforce by-laws already made and recover rates and charges thereunder.

PART IV.-SUPPLY OF WATER.

DIVISION 1.-GENERAL

175. Supply of water by measure.

176. Charge for water supplied outside district. 177. Owners and occupiers of land to provide dams and tanks after notice.

Supply of water in such cases.

178. Supply of water from State works to Authorities other than the Board or the Commission. 179. Proportionate supply from State works where available supply is insufficient.

180. Charge for domestic and ordinary supply.

Supply by measure for other purposes.

181. Proportionate supply by Authority where available supply is insufficient.

182. Governor in Council may give directions. 183. Supply of water not compulsory.

Authority not liable for accidental failure of supply.

DIVISION 2.-SUPPLY OF WATER IN URBAN
DISTRICTS.

184. Notice to lay service pipes.

Twelfth Schedule.

185. The owner or occupier of any tenement may lay service pipes.

And may open and break up a street or drain.
Conditions for so doing.

Opening of ground with consent of owner and
occupier thereof.

186. Notice to Authority of laying pipes. 187. Size and quality of pipes.

188. Communication with pipes of Authority to be made under superintendence of officer. 189. Authority may with sanction of Governor in Council lay and keep in repair connexions from mains to services, and may charge owners therefor.

190. Service pipes may be removed after giving notice.

Compensation for damage done.

Penalty for removing pipes without notice.

191. Charges for water by measure.

192. Special agreements.

193. Authority may supply by measure. 194. What purposes not domestic.

195. Authority may let meters and other apparatus.

201. Penalty for fixing uncertified meter.

202. Penalty for removing or altering meter without notice.

203. Officers of the Authority may inspect meters. Entry by officers.

Penalty for obstruction of inspection or for removal of meter.

Time at which power of entry may be exercised.

204. Authority to affix public fire plugs in mains. 205. Authority to repair fire plugs.

Notice of fire plug to be put up.

206. Local council to defray expense of fire plugs. 207. Fire plugs to be placed near factories at request of owners.

208. Pipes to be kept charged and water may be taken for extinguishing fires.

209. Supply of water for public purposes. 210. Power to break up streets and to open drains. 211. Notice to be served before breaking up streets or opening drains.

212. Streets broken up to be reinstated without delay.

DIVISION 3.-PUMPING LEASES, LICENCES, ETC. 213. Lease for pump sites.

214. Application to be published.

215. Lease may be granted subject to conditions. 216. Licences for water easements.

217. Licences to divert water and cut races. Compensation to be made for injury.

222. Where over £300 Supreme Court Judge to be sole arbitrator with or without assessors.

223. Submission to arbitration.

224. Death or incapacity of arbitrator.

225. Arbitrator may call for documents and examine witnesses.

226. Award to be delivered.

227. Award may be enforced as a rule of court. 228. Award to be final.

229. Travelling expenses of arbitrator.

230. Settlement of costs.

231. Principles in awarding compensation. 232. Award to be taken as in full.

233. Certain sections of Land Compensation Act 1890 not applicable.

DIVISION 2.-COMPENSATION FOR INJURY BY WORKS. 231. No action against Authority.

For injury to riparian rights.

Or for flooding.

235. Authority to make compensation for injury to riparian rights and by flooding.

236. Claim within one year and no delay.
237. Disputes as to compensation how settled.
235. Principles in awarding compensation.

None where injury to water supply temporary
only.

None for taking water by legal powers.

Benefit to claimant by works under this Act.
Measure of damages.

250. No pipe to be fixed to consumer's pipe without permission of Authority.

Penalty for breach of this section.

251. Inspection of premises to see whether there be waste or misuse of water.

DIVISION 4.-POLLUTION OF WATER FOR SUPPLY OF URBAN DISTRICTS.

252. Notification of waters required to be kept free. 253. Bathing or washing, or throwing dirt or filth. into waterworks.

254. Penalty for letting foul water flow thereinto. 255. Fouling water or injuring works by substances produced in making gas.

256. Gas makers causing water to be fouled.

Power to examine gas pipes to ascertain cause of water being fouled.

Notice of such examination to be given.

257. The expenses of examination to abide the result. DIVISION 5.-RATES IN URBAN DISTRICTS.

258. Rates in urban districts.

Liability to pay rates and charges.

Twelfth Schedule.

277. Power of Commission where default is made by Authority.

Receiver may be appointed by Commission.
Power to remove receiver.

Extent of property to be taken.

278. Transfer to Commission of property taken possession of before the commencement of this Act. Fourteenth Schedule.

279. Possession of property taken may be relinquished.

280. Power to retake possession after relinquishment. 281. Transfer to Commission of powers and duties on taking possession of property of cer ain Authorities.

PART VIII.-GENERAL PROVISIONS.
DIVISION 1.-POWERS AND PROPERTY OF
AUTHORITIES.

282. General powers of Authorities.

Compensation to be made.

283. Right to procure materials for works.

281. Place from which materials taken shall be fenced, &c.

285. Damage to be avoided and compensation to be made.

Recovery of compensation.

286. Land and easements when acquired from Crown lessees or licensees to vest in Authority. 287. Authority may in consideration of any lands, &c., purchased agree to supply water.

When Authority is not liable for failure to supply water.

238. Construction of embankments, &c., upon street or road.

Compensation for damage.

289. No compensation for taking or diverting water if empowered by this Act.

290. Authority may use channel through private lands.

Determination of necessary bridges, &c.

291. Noxious weeds and vermin to be destroyed by owners of land over which water easements are taken.

292. Pipes may be laid through another district. 293. Drainage of surplus water supplied to any area. 294. Control of rivers, &c., may be given to any Authority.

Saving rights of municipal councils.

295. Plan and description to be followed except with the approval of the Governor in Council.

296. Construction of principal works.
297. Qualification of engineers.

Board of Examiners of Engineers of Water
Supply.

298. Reservation of Crown lands and vesting same

in Authority.

Subdivision 4.-Payment and Recovery of Rates.

320. Recovery from the occupier or the owner at the time the rate is made.

321. Recovery from subsequent occupier or owner. 322. Interest on unpaid rates.

323. Interest on rates recovered in petty sessions. 324. Rates and interest a charge upon land. 325. Sale of lands and tenements to enforce charge. Powers of County Court.

326. Payment and recovery of irrigation charges. 327. Power to take possession of and lease land on which arrears of rates are due.

Notice to be given before taking possession. 328. Notice to be affixed on taking possession. 329. Lease.

330. Release of land after demand and payment of

arrears.

331. Application of rents.

332. After thirty years land to vest in Authority. Subdivision 5.--Miscellaneous.

333. Rates not to be made in respect of certain lands. 334. Statement by secretary of amount of rates and

charges due in respect of any land or tenement. 335. All rates and charges due in one complaint and

summons.

336. Invalidity, &c. of rate does not prevent recovery. 337. Exemption from fees of certain processes. 338. Owner when name not known to be rated as owner only, and notice or demand may be placed on land.

339. Occupier refusing to give name of owner liable to penalty.

340. Inspection of municipal valuation. 341. Municipal rate book or verified copy thereof to be prima facie proof of ownership or occupa

tion.

342. Person from whom are recoverable charges or sums due.

Recovery.

351. Non-performance of provisions of this Act or of any by-law or regulation is an offence against this Act.

352. Penalty for offences against this Act. 353. Recovery of penalties.

354. Penalties may be recovered by Authority. From the person committing the offence or from his employer.

Penalties to be paid to the Authority. 355. Recovery of penalty does not prejudice right to take other proceedings.

DIVISION 5.-LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND
ENFORCEMENT OF ACT.

356. Service of notices and legal proceedings.
357. Documents how authenticated.
358. Authority may direct prosecutions.
359. Secretary or other officer may represent
Authority in petty sessions.

360. Proof of certain matters not required. 361. Evidence of by-laws &c.

362. Evidence of documents issued by any Authority. 363. Primâ facie evidence of ownership. 364. Certificate of ownership of land. 365. Seal of Authority to be judicially noticed. 366. No objection to be entertained to certain Orders for non-compliance with preliminary steps 367. Minister may refer differences to county court judge.

368. Penalty for neglect or refusal of Authority to obey decision.

369.

370.

Municipal officer not furnishing copy of voters' roll to be guilty of offence.

Power of Governor in Council to make regulations.

Power to revoke or amend Orders in Council. 371. Power of Governor in Council to give directions as to construction continuance and maintenance of waterworks.

372.

313. Recovery of rates and charges by distress. Sixteenth Schedule.

Appointment of officer to control works for the service of more than one district.