Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Communication-pipes etc., to be kept in efficient repair by owner or occupier of premises.— 5[(1) It shall be incumbent on the owner or occupier of any premises to which a private water-supply is furnished from any municipal water-work, 6[to keep in a thoroughly clean condition and to maintain and keep in efficient repair every supply and distributing pipe] conveying water from the said water-work to such premises and every meter for measuring water, not being a municipal meter and 7[every cistern and fitting] in or connected with any such pipe, so as effectually to prevent the water from running to waste. 8[(2) When an occupier of any premises is served with a notice under sub-section (2) of section 278, he may, after giving to the person to whom he is responsible for the payment of his rent 9[three] days notice in writing, himself have to the repairs executed and in such event he shall be entitled to deduct from any rent due 10[or to become due] by him to such person the actual expenses incurred by him in complying with the notice served under sub-section (2) of section 278: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the liabilities of parties under leases executed before the 1st day of April 1918.]