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Public and Bank Holidays.

2 From and after the coming into operation of this Ordinance there shall be repealed

(1) Section 8 of Ordinance 17 of 1869, intituled "An Ordinance for the General Regulation of Customs in the Island of Ceylon ;"

(2) So much of any other Ordinance as is inconsistent with this Ordinance.

3 For the purposes of this Ordinance, the "day next following a public holiday" shall mean the next following day not being itself a public holiday; and "the day next following a bank holiday" shall mean the next following day not being itself a public or a bank holiday.

4 The several days mentioned in schedule A hereto annexed (and which days are hereinafter referred to as public holidays) shall, in addition to Sundays, be dies non, and shall be kept (except as hereinafter provided) as holidays in this colony. If any of these holidays fall on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be a public holiday, unless otherwise ordered by the Governor, of which notice shall be given in the Government Gazette.

5 The Governor in Executive Council may, from time to time, make regulations excluding in whole, or in part, from the operation of this Ordinance, any public office or any department thereof, and thereupon all acts and things relating to such public office or department thereof may be done and performed on any public holiday, notwithstanding the provisions of this Ordinance.

6 After the coming into operation of this Ordinance, the several days in the schedule B hereto annexed (and which days are hereinafter referred to as bank holidays) shall be kept as close holidays in all banks in this colony, and all bills of exchange and promissory notes which are due and payable on any such bank or public holiday shall be payable, and in case of non-payment may be noted and protested, on the next following day; and any such noting or protest shall be as valid as if made on the day on which the bill or note was made due and payable.

7 When the day on which any notice of dishonour of an unpaid bill of exchange or promissory note should be given, or when the day on which a bill of exchange or promissory note should be presented or received for acceptance, or accepted or forwarded to any referee or referees, is a bank or public holiday, such notice of dishonour shall be given and such bill of exchange or promissory note shall be presented or forwarded on the day next following such bank or public holiday.

8 No person shall be compellable to make any payment or to do any act upon such bank or public holiday which he would not be compellable to do or make on Sunday; and the obligation to make such payment and do such act shall apply to the day following such bank or public holiday;

Repeal.

Interpretation clause.

Certain days to be public holidays.

Regulations.

Bank holidays.

Bills due on bank or public holidays to be payable on the following day.

Provisions

as to notice of dishonour and presentation for honour.

As to payments on bank or public holidays.

Governor may appoint special days to be

observed as bank or public holidays.

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and the making of such payment and doing such act on such following day shall be equivalent to payment of the money or performance of the act on the holiday.

9 It shall be lawful for the Governor, by notification in the Government Gazette, at any time to appoint a special day to be observed as a public holiday or as a bank holiday, in addition to or in substitution for any of the days mentioned in the schedules hereto annexed, and thereupon the provisions of this Ordinance shall be applicable to such day in the same manner as if the said day had been mentioned in the said schedules.

Preamble.

Short title to come into operation when notified by Proclamation.

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An Ordinance relating to the Supply of Water to the
Colombo Municipality.

WE

(As amended by No. 7 of 1891.)

THEREAS it is expedient to regulate the supply of water to the Colombo Municipality by means of the Ceylon Government Waterworks, and to provide for the payment of the water so supplied: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

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1 This Ordinance may be cited as The Colombo Waterworks Ordinance, 1886," and it shall come into operation at such time as the Governor shall appoint by Proclamation to be published in the Government Gazette.

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2 The Governor shall appoint a fit and proper person, who shall be called the Waterworks Engineer, to execute the duties and exercise the powers hereinafter mentioned, and such inspectors, clerks, and other officers as may be necessary; and all duties and powers hereinafter required to be performed and exercised by the Waterworks Engineer shall and may be performed and exercised by any officer specially authorized thereto in writing by the Waterworks Engineer.

3 The Ceylon Government shall provide a supply of drinking water within the municipality of Colombo, and shall for that purpose cause such pipes to be laid, and such tanks, reservoirs, or other works to be made, as are necessary for the supply of wholesome water in the public streets of the Colombo Municipality, and shall erect in such streets convenient standpipes, fountains, open reservoirs, or pumps for the gratuitous use of the inhabitants of the municipality for domestic purposes. It shall be the duty of the Government, as far as possible, to make adequate provision that such supply of water shall be continuous throughout the year, and that the water supplied may be at all times pure and fit for human consumption.

4 The Ceylon Government may, on application by the owner or occupier of any house, allow a private service of water to such house for domestic purposes, in such quantities and under such conditions as the Government deem reasonable. When a private service is allowed, the Government shall make the necessary connection between the street waterworks pipe and the boundary of the premises to be served, such boundary being conterminous with the limit of the public street in which the waterworks pipe is laid, but the cost of such connection and of all further piping and of all internal fittings requisite for such private service shall be borne by the owner or occupier.

Provided, however, that no connection shall be made with the street waterworks pipe until the estimated cost thereof shall have been deposited with the Waterworks Engineer, and until all the private piping and internal fittings requisite for the private service shall have previously been erected and completed to the satisfaction of the Waterworks Engineer.

5 The works, other than the connection between the street waterworks pipe and the boundary of the premises to be served, necessary for such private service, and all future repairs, extensions, and alterations of such works, shall in every case be in accordance with the regulations made in that behalf by the Governor in Executive Council, and shall be executed by the Waterworks Engineer, or by the owner or occupier applying for the private service under the orders and subject to the approval of the Waterworks Engineer. If the said works or the repairs, extensions, and alterations of the same shall be executed by the Waterworks Engineer, the expense thereof, when certified under the hand of the Waterworks Engineer, shall be defrayed by such owner or occupier, and the same may be recovered by the Municipal Council of Colombo as if it were a tax payable under "The 2 K

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Governor to appoint
Waterworks
Engineer and other

officers.

Duties and powers of Waterworks Engineer may be performed and exercised by officers specially authorized by him.

Government to lay down pipes and provide the works necessary for the supply of water for domestic

purposes throughout the year in the public streets of the municipality.

Government may allow service to, and shall lay service pipes to the boundary of, private premises at the expense of the owner or occupier.

All necessary private or internal fittings to be first

completed to the

satisfaction of the Waterworks Engineer.

Other works
necessary to private
service and all
repairs and
alterations of such
to be in accordance
with regulations
made by the
Governor in
Executive Council,
and to be executed
by or subject to the
approval of the
Waterworks
Engineer.

Expense, when
executed by
Waterworks
Engineer, to be borne
by owner or
occupier, and
recoverable as a tax
under the

Municipal Councils'
Ordinance.

All public
waterworks
already existing
or hereafter to be
made, and all
bridges, buildings,
&c., and adjacent
land (not private
property)

appertaining
thereto, to be vested

in Government.

Government to cause such works to be

. maintained and supplied, and may substitute others.

Government may from time to time provide filtering and other works, and provide new tanks, &c.

Power to break up streets, &c., and enter private land.

Reasonable

notice to be .given and compensation paid to the owner of private property. Settlement of disputes as to compensation.

Construction,

maintenance,

repairs, &c., of works to be provided for by annuities to be paid by the municipal council.

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Municipal Councils' Ordinance, 1865,"* and when recovered shall be accounted for as the Governor in Executive Council may direct.

6 All public tanks, reservoirs, cisterns, fountains, wells, aqueducts, conduits, tunnels, pipes, pumps, and other waterworks existing at the time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance, or afterwards made, laid, or erected, and whether made, laid, or erected at the cost of the Government or otherwise, and all bridges, buildings, engines, works, materials, and things connected therewith or appertaining thereto, and also any adjacent land (not being private property) appertaining to any such works, shall be vested in the Ceylon Government.

7 The Ceylon Government shall cause all existing public tanks, reservoirs, cisterns, wells, aqueducts, conduits, tunnels, pipes, pumps, fountains, and other works used for the supply of water to be maintained and supplied with water; and the Governor in Executive Council may close any such works, and substitute other such works, and may cause them to be maintained and supplied with water.

8 The Ceylon Government may from time to time construct filtering tanks, aqueducts, or other works for bringing wholesome water into the municipality of Colombo, and may provide new tanks, reservoirs, cisterns, wells, fountains,standpipes, and other such works for the use of the inhabitants.

9 The Ceylon Government in laying down any pipes for the water supply of the municipality may, if they consider it necessary, carry such pipes through, across, or under any street or any place laid out or intended for a street, or under any building, or through any cellar or vault, or into, through, or under any enclosed or other land whatsoever. The Government shall, in every case in which they deal with private property under this section, give reasonable notice of their intention so to do to the owner of such property, and shall on completion of the work pay to him reasonable compensation for so dealing with the property. If dispute arises as to the amount or apportionment of such compensation, such amount and apportionment shall be summarily ascertained and determined by the Commissioner of the Court of Requests of Colombo, whose decision shall be subject to an appeal to the Supreme Court.

10 To enable the Ceylon Government to provide for the cost of the construction, maintenance, repairs, extension, improvement, and other incidental expenses of the waterworks, together with interest and sinking fund in respect of the loans heretofore contracted under Ordinances No. 7 of 1879 and No. 4 of 1885 for the construction and completion of the said works, the Municipal Council of Colombo shall pay to the Government an annuity of one hundred and ten thousand rupees for each of the years 1887 and 1888, and also a proportion of the like annuity for the year 1886,

* Repealed by No. 7 of 1887.

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calculated for the period of actual supply of water to the said municipality from the said waterworks during the lastmentioned year. And from and after the expiration of the year 1888 the said municipal council shall pay to the Government an annuity of one hundred and thirty thousand rupees for a period not exceeding thirty-five years.

11 Every such annuity or proportion thereof as aforesaid shall be payable from the municipal fund, and shall be chargeable to the rates and taxes, rents, and all other the income and property of the said municipality, anything in the Ordinance No. 17 of 1865* to the contrary notwithstanding; and the same shall be paid in such instalments and at such times as the Governor in Executive Council shall direct.

12 To enable the municipal council to provide for the payment of such annuities or proportion thereof as aforesaid from the municipal fund, it shall be lawful for the said council to levy a water-rate, either separately or together with the police and lighting rates as one consolidated rate, on the annual value of all houses, buildings, lands, and tenements, other than the property of the Crown, within the limits of the said municipality, anything in the Ordinance. No. 17 of 1865* or the Ordinance No. 12 of 1878* to the contrary notwithstanding. Such water-rate or consolidated rate shall be determined from time to time by the Governor in Executive Council, but such consolidated rate shall not exceed a maximum of eleven per cent. on such annual value as aforesaid; and the provisions of any existing or future Ordinance or Ordinances, or of any by-laws lawfully enacted. by the Municipal Council of Colombo thereunder, relating to the assessment, recovery of, and exemptions from the police rate within the limits of the said municipality, shall apply to the assessment, recovery of, and exemptions from the said water-rate or consolidated rate.

13 The Governor in Executive Council may, if he thinks fit, from time to time, by notification in the Government Gazette, exempt any division or part of a division of the municipality, or any house, land, or tenement in which the general facilities afforded by the water supply are not fully available, from the payment of the water-rate or of such proportion of the consolidated rate as may be assessed in respect of such water supply, and may also from time to time remove such exemption.

14 Every person paying such water or consolidated rate shall be entitled to have, free of further charge in respect thereof, a supply of water from the public standpipes for the domestic use of himself and his household.

Annuities

payable from municipal fund and chargeable to rates, taxes. rents. income, and property of municipality.

Municipal council to levy a separate

water-rate, or one consolidated rate for water, police, and lighting.

Maximum.

Mode of levy.

Governor may exempt division. house, or land from charge for water.

Persons paying rate entitled to free use of water from public standpipes for domestic purposes.

"Domestic

not included in.

15 A supply of water for domestic purposes shall not include a supply of water for horses or cattle, or for washing purposes"-what vehicles, where such horses, cattle, or vehicles are kept for sale or hire, or a supply for any trade, manufacture, or business, or for fountains or swimming baths, or for any ornamental or mechanical purpose, or for purposes of irrigation.

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