L.S. 10.29 Regolamenti dwar Faċilitajiet għad-Drenaġġ

D R AI N A G E F A C I L I TE S A ND S EW E R C O N N E CT I O N [ S.L.10.29 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 10.29 DRAINAGE FACILITIES AND SEWER CONNECTION REGULATIONS 1st June, 1975; 5th August, 1975; 1st January, 1989 LEGAL NOTICES 88 of 1975, 52 of 1976, as amended by Act XIII of 1983, and 111 of 1988, consolidated, and as amended by Act XI of 1987 and Legal Notice 407 of

2. The title of these Regulations is Drainage Facilities and Sewer Connection Regulations. Title. Drainage Facilities
3. Where any sewer, or any part of the public sewer, which is to be laid by any owner other than the Government, is to pass through or across any land not belonging to the Government, the Commissioner of Land shall take all necessary steps for the imposition of the relative easement in accordance with the provisions of the Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Ordinance. Imposition of easements.
4. The Director of Public Works may, with the approval of t h e M i n i s t e r r e s p o n s i b l e f o r P u b l i c Wo r k s , e n t e r i n t o a n y agreement with the owner of any house in connection with the communication of the relative privy or privies with the public sewer, and any such agreement may include the contribution by him of such part of the total expenditure incurred or to be incurred i n t h e s a i d c o m m u n i c a t i o n a s t h e s a i d M i n i s t e r, w i t h t h e concurrence of the Minister responsible for Finance, may decide either generally or with respect to any particular case. Agreement with owners.
5. Where, consequential to an order given by the Superintendent of Public Health, any part of the public sewer is laid by any one or more owners of houses, and such part is intended to be made use of at any time by other such owner or owners, the total expenditure involved in such laying shall be apportioned on a frontage proportion as between all owners of the land neighbouring, or opposite to, the houses in question on which land houses have been or may be erected, and the owner or owners who shall have incurred the original expenditure shall have a right of reimbursement against the other owner or owners with respect to the share of the latter. Apportionment of expenditure.
6. Where several houses in any particular area are to be connected with the public sewer, and one or more of the owners of such houses does not agree with the other owners on the work to be done and/or on the expenditure involved, the Director of Public Works may, if he so determines, carry out all or any part of the necessary work at the expense of the several owners, and the total expenditure incurred by him shall be borne by all the said owners in the manner set out in regulation
7. Works by Director of Public Works.
8. Notwithstanding the provision of regulation 4, no owner of Cap. 88 Time of payment. 2 [ S.L.10.29 D R AI N A G E F A C I L I T ES A N D S E W E R C O N N E C T IO N any developable land may be compelled to pay any share or proportion of the expenditure referred to in the said regulation 4 until a building permit has been issued to him by the Planning Authority in respect of his particular plot. Payment of interests.
9. Where any amount is due to the Director of Public Works or to any other person for works carried out in accordance with the provisions of regulation 4 or 5, the debtor of any such amount shall pay interests thereon at the rate of 6 per cent per annum as from the date in which the said amount became due. Sewer connection Fee leviable. Amended by: XIII. 1983.5; XI. 1987.140; L.N. 407 of
10. Cap.
12. Where the Director of Public Works lays the connection between the public sewer and the intercepting chamber of any house as provided in article 97