WATERWORKS

CHAPTER 72:01
WATERWORKS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
WATER BOARDS, MEMBERSHIP, POWERS AND DUTIES

    3.    Water Boards

    4.    Water-areas

    5.    Constitution of the Board

    6.    Control of waterworks

    7.    Record of proceedings

    8.    Officers and servants

    9.    Remuneration of members of the Board

    10.    Power to make standing orders

PART III
FURTHER POWERS OF THE BOARD

    11.    Purposes for which waterworks may be constructed

    12.    Power to carry pipes, etc., through any land

    13.    Compensation, etc.

    14.    Power to enter land

    15.    Power of entry at specified times

    16.    Power to suspend, etc., supply of water

    17.    Power to construct public fountains

    18.    Supply of water in or outside water-area

    19.    Board to supply water

    20.    Power to instal water-borne sewerage sanitation schemes

PART IV
SERVICES AND SUPPLY OF WATER

    21.    Request for supply of water

    22.    Construction and connexion of services

    23.    Expenses, by whom borne

    24.    Services may be constructed by the Board

    25.    Supply pipes to be the property of the Board

PART V
OPERATION OF WATER-BORNE SEWERAGE SANITATION

    26.    Provision of public sewers and sewerage disposal work

    27.    Board to keep map showing public sewers

    28.    Power of the Board to alter or close public sewers

    29.    Certain matters not to be passed into sewers or drains

    30.    Right of owners and occupiers within the water-area to drain into public sewers

    31.    Use of public sewers by owners and occupiers without the water-area of the Board

    32.    Sewer connexions in streets and through private land

    33.    Procedure in regard to making communication with public sewers

PART VI
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

    34.    Rates

    35.    Board to make charges for supply of water

    36.    Rates and charges to be charged on premises to which they relate

    37.    Revenue of the Board

    38.    Disposal of funds

    39.    Investment powers

    40.    Expenditure of the Board

    41.    Advances from the Government

    42.    Borrowing powers

    43.    Estimates and accounts

    44.    Keeping of accounts

    45.    Audit of the Board’s accounts

    46.    Auditor may require production of documents and may summon persons

    47.    Report by the auditor

    48.    Minister may act on receipt of auditor’s report

PART VII
INQUIRIES

    49.    Inquiries by the Minister

PART VIII
OFFENCES

    50.    Injuries, pollution, etc.

    51.    Waste, etc.

    52.    Change of occupancy

    53.    Fraudulent measurement

    54.    Foul accumulation of earth

    55.    Penalty for unauthorized building over or near to pipes, etc.

PART IX
BY-LAWS

    56.    Power of the Board to make by-laws

PART X
MISCELLANEOUS

    57.    Recovery of penalties

    58.    Limitation of time for prosecution

    59.    Burden of proof in certain cases

    60.    Recovery of moneys

    61.    Legal representation of the Board

    62.    Proof of documents

    63.    Good faith shall be defence to personal liability

    64.    Minister may make rules

    65.    Election to transfer to employment with the Board

PART XI
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

    66.    Power to take over existing waterworks

    67.    Taking over water-borne sewerage sanitation

    68.    Vesting of rights, liabilities, etc.

PART XII
REPEALS AND SAVINGS

    69.    Repeal and Savings

17 of 1995
G.N. 68/1996

    An Act to provide for the establishment of Water Boards and water-areas and for the administration of such water-areas and for the development, operation and maintenance of waterworks and water-borne sewerage sanitation systems in Malawi and for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Waterworks Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “Board” means a Water Board specified in the Schedule;

    “domestic purposes” includes every kind of ordinary household purpose, but does not include the use of any engine or machine, any mining operations, the flushing of any sewer or drain, purposes connected with any trade, manufacture or business, the cleansing of any road, path or pavement, or garden purposes;

    “fathering ground” means any natural or artificial surface which collects the rainfall or which contains any spring, well or stream from which water is or is intended to be drawn for the purpose of a waterworks;

    “main” means any pipe laid by the Board for the purpose of providing either a general supply of water as distinct from a supply to individual consumers or a general conveyance of sewerage as distinct from the conveyance of sewerage from individual connexions and includes any apparatus used in connexion with such a pipe;

    “member” means a member of…