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In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires'- (a) where the premises supplied with water abuts on the part of the street in which the main is laid, and the service pipe enters those premises otherwise than through the outer wall of a building, abutting on the street and has a stopcock placed in those premises and as near to the boundary of that street as is reasonably practicable, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and such stopcock, and (b) in any other case, so much of the service pipes lies between the main and the boundary of the street in which the main is laid, and includes the female at the junction of the service pipe with the main, and also includes, - i. where the communication pipe ends at a stopcock, such stopcock, and ii. any stopcock fitted on the communication pipe between the end thereof and the main; Functions assigned to Municipality or other agencies. Definitions. (2) "main" means a pipe laid by the Municipality for the purpose of giving a general supply of water as distinct from a supply to individual consumers, and includes any apparatus used in the connection with such Pipe; (3) "service-pipe" means so much of any pipe for supplying water from a main to any premises as is subject to water-pressure from that main, or would- be so subject but for the closing of any tap; (4) "supply-pipe" means so much of any service pipe as is nor a communication pipe; (5) "trunk-main" means a main constructed for the purpose of conveying water from a source of supply to a filter or reservoir or from one filter or reservoir to another filter or reservoir, or for the purpose of conveying water in bulk from one part of the limits of supply to another part of such limits, or for the purpose of giving, or taking, a supply of water in bulk, (6) "water-fittings" includes pipes (other than mains), taps cocks, valves, ferrules, meters, cisterns, baths and other similar apparatus used in connection with the supply and use of water. B. Functions in Relation to Water-supply