Colombo Water Supply. Schedule. 1. Every person using the standpipes must shut or turn down the tap after drawing water, so as to stop all flow of the water. 2. Persons requiring a supply of water by private service pipes must, in the first instance, obtain from the Waterworks Engineer or other authorized officer of the waterworks instructions as to the proper point for the introduction of the water on the consumer's premises. Such persons must, at their own cost, provide, lay down, and maintain all service pipes and fittings which may be required within their premises. The Government will drill their own waterpipe, fix the ferrule and stop-tap, and lay down the service pipe to the boundary of the consumer's premises. 3. A stop-tap will be fixed by the Government on the service pipe either outside or inside the premises as may be convenient, and as near to the entrance as possible; and in all places where the stop-tap is fixed in the ground, a small cast iron guard box to indicate the situation of such stop-tap will also be fixed. The position of stop-tap and surface box will be arranged by the Government and open to their inspection and control at all times. 4. In case the service pipes are of lead, they are required to be of the following strength, viz.: inch diameter, 3 lb. per lineal yard. inch diameter, 4 lb. per lineal yard. inch diameter, 7 lb. per lineal yard. 1 inch diameter, 10 lb. per lineal yard. 14 inch diameter, 14 lb. per lineal yard. 5. Private service pipes are required to be laid 2 feet 6 inches to 2 feet, as may be directed by the Waterworks Engineer, below the surface of the ground, and also to be brought out through the boundary of the private premises at the same level below the street or roadway, and in default of this regulation being complied with the pipes will not be connected by the Government. 6. No pipe must be laid through or in any sewer, drain, manure hole, ash-pit, or other place from which, in the event of decay or injury to such pipe, the water of the Government may be liable to become foul or to escape without observation. 7. Before the connection for the supply of water can be made, or before any additional fittings can be connected to an existing service pipe, the work must be inspected and approved by the Waterworks Engineer or other authorized officer of the waterworks. 8. None but proper valve-taps are to be fixed, and of such a description as the Waterworks Engineer may approve of. 9. The taps must be on the screw-down principle, with loose vai ves and stuffing boxes; the diameter of all orifices in the seat on which the valves work in the stop-taps to be the same size as the taps themselves. and all taps must be capable of resisting a pressure of 200 lb. to the square inch, to which they may be subjected in testing. 10. Copper bit joints will not be allowed, but in all cases a proper wiped joint must be made or such other joint as may be approved by the Waterworks Engineer. 11. No house or other premises will be allowed to have more than one supply pipe either from the main or from any adjoining premises. 12. No steam engine, boiler, or any description of closed boiler will be allowed to be supplied direct from the service pipe, but a cistern must be provided in every case, and the supply taken therefrom. 2 L *39-00 Colombo Water Supply. 13. No water-closet or urinal will be allowed to be supplied direct from the service pipe, but must be supplied from a cistern; and no water-closet can be supplied by stop-tap or bib-tap, but must be provided with a proper valve apparatus to be approved by the Waterworks Engineer. 14. No tap for domestic purposes in dwelling-houses, or for drinking purposes in warehouses, will be allowed to be supplied from a cistern, but in all such cases drawing-off taps must be fixed on the service pipe before it enters the cistern. Baths, water-closets, urinals, and wash basins only shall be allowed to be supplied from a cistern. 15. Cisterns must in every case be supplied by means of ball-taps. 16. Cisterns for water-closets must be approved by the Waterworks Engineer, and constructed so as not to deliver more than two gallons of water at a flush. The pulls of the cisterns must be so constructed as to prevent their being fixed in any position which will allow the water to be left running to waste. 17. The overflow pipes of all cisterns must act as warning pipes, and must be brought through the external wall of the premises supplied with water at such a conspicuous point below the level of the bottom of the cistern as may be directed, and there properly maintained, which pipe must be of sufficient diameter to deliver any water wasting from the different ball-taps when out of order. 18. Every cistern which shall be used for the storage or reception of water supplied by the Government shall be made, and at all times maintained, absolutely water-tight, and shall be provided with a balltap, which tap shall have at the end a screw connection with lock, nut, and union, and the cistern shall be drilled for reception of the same. The ball-tap shall be so fixed as not to become submerged when the cistern is full. The level of the water in the cistern shall always be maintained at two inches below the overflow or warning pipe, and every cistern shall be capable of inspection. 19. The bib-taps and stop-taps must be of the following average weights, viz. : 20. Ball-taps must be of the best quality, and the diameter of the tap and ball as under: 1 inch diameter of tap not less than 6 inches diameter of ball. inches diameter of ball. inches diameter of ball. inches diameter of ball. 21. The rods or spindles from the balls to the taps must not be less than the following lengths : 1 inch diameter of tap inch diameter of tap Mohammedan Marriage Registration. 22. The strength of such rods or spindles must not be less than as The rods or spindles referred to above may be of the following strength in lieu of those stated, viz., by inch. 23. Such taps without balls or spindles must not be less than the following weights : 24. The Government shall provide and fix all water meters, and shall also lay the service pipes through the boundary of the premises to the inlet of the meters, and fix the stop-cocks authorized, at the expense of the occupier of the premises. 25. The Government may from time to time remove any meter for the purpose of testing the accuracy thereof, or for examination or repair, or for the purpose of substituting another meter, and in case of the discontinuance of the supply. 26. Water supplied by the Government otherwise than by measure or meter shall not be drawn or used through any hose or movable pipe except by previous agreement with the Government as to the use of hose or pipe, and as to the sum to be paid to the Government for the water to be conveyed through the same. 27. Samples of the quality of the materials to be used will be kept for inspection by the Government. All materials, valves, taps, piping, cisterns, ball-taps, &c., shall be of the very best quality, and approved by the Waterworks Engineer, and tested, if so required, by him and stamped. The cost of such testing and stamping shall be borne by the person supplying the materials. 18th February, 1886. No. 8 of 1886. An Ordinance to provide for the Registration of Mohammedan (As amended by No. 2 of 1888.) HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the registration of the marriages of persons professing the Mohammedan faith in this island: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1 This Ordinance may be cited as "The Mohammedan Marriage Registration Ordinance, 1886." It extends to the whole of this island, and so far only as regards subjects of Her Majesty professing the Mohammedan faith ; Preamble. Short title. Extent. Commencement. Interpretation clause : "Officiating levvai." "Provincial registrar." "Registrar." Repeal. Provincial registrar to license officiating levvai. License to be stamped. Licensee to act only within the province. Marriages to be registered in duplicate. Entries of such marriages to be signed and attested. Mohammedan Marriage Registration. And it shall come into operation in such district or respective districts as shall be defined, and at such time or respective times as shall be appointed, by the Governor in Executive Council, by Proclamation to be published in the Government Gazette. 2 In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires"Officiating levvai" shall mean any Mohammedan levvai who shall be licensed by the provincial registrar to register marriages under this Ordinance. "Provincial registrar" shall mean the provincial registrar of marriages appointed under the provisions of Ordinance No. 15 of 1877,* or of any future Ordinance providing for such appointment. "Registrar" shall mean the registrar appointed by the Governor under section 8 or section 14 of this Ordinance. 3 So much of the Code of Mohammedan Laws of 1806 as is inconsistent with this Ordinance is hereby repealed. 4 The provincial registrar may at his discretion issue a license, in the form contained in schedule A, to any Mohammedan levvai applying for the same who, in his opinion, shall be a fit and proper person to be licensed to register marriages under this Ordinance, and any such license at his discretion revoke and recall. Every license shall bear a stamp of one rupee, which shall be supplied by the applicant, and shall be duly cancelled by the provincial registrar; and a list of such licenses shall be made and preserved in the office of the provincial registrar, and shall from time to time be published in the Government Gazette. And no officiating levvai shall register any marriage contracted under this Ordinance outside the limits of the province named in his license. 5 It shall be the duty of the officiating levvai who attends the marriage ceremonies at the request of the contracting parties for the purpose of registering the marriage, immediately upon the performance of such ceremonies to register the marriage at the wedding meeting held according to custom, and such registration shall be in duplicate, that is to say, in a marriage register book, which he is hereby required to keep for that purpose, and which shall be furnished to him by the provincial registrar, according to the form contained in the schedule B hereto annexed, and also in a certificate attached to the marriage register book as a counterfoil; and the entries in the register book and in the certificate shall be in the Tamil language. 6 The entry of such marriage in both the certificate and marriage register book shall be signed by the officiating levvai, and also by the bridegroom and by the lawful wali of the bride, and shall be attested by two witnesses present at the marriage; and where the party required to sign is not able to write, he shall affix his mark. Repealed by Nos. 1 and 2 of 1895. Mohammedan Marriage Registration. Every such entry shall be made in order from the beginning to the end of the book, and the number of the certificate shall correspond with that of the entry in the marriage register book. 7 The officiating levvai registering the marriage shall forthwith separate the certificate from the marriage register book and send it, within seven days from the time of the registration, to the provincial registrar of his province to be filed of record in his office; and every such certificate shall bear a stamp of twenty-five cents, which shall be supplied to the officiating levvai by the persons contracting the marriage, and which shall be duly cancelled by him as required by law. 8 It shall be lawful for the Governor, by notification in the Gazette, to appoint any Mohammedan other than an officiating levvai to be a marriage registrar in respect of any district or place where there is no resident officiating levvai, for the purpose of registering marriages under this Ordinance; and a legal marriage may be contracted under this Ordinance before such registrar, who shall, upon the performance of the usual marriage ceremonies, register such marriage. 9 The provisions of sections 5, 6, and 7 of this Ordinance, as to the form of the register book, the mode of registration, the transmitting of the stamped certificate to the provincial registrar, and the due cancelling of the stamp thereon, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the marriages contracted before the registrar in manner provided in the last preceding section. 10 Every officiating levvai or registrar who shall wilfully register any marriage contracted outside the limits of the province, district, or place to which he shall have been licensed or appointed, or who shall register any marriage at which he shall not have been present, or who shall wilfully neglect to keep a marriage register book as required by section 5, or to register in the said marriage book in the manner provided in section 6 any marriage which by this Ordinance he shall be bound to register, or who shall fail without lawful excuse to send the counterfoil certificates duly stamped to the provincial registrar as required by section 7, or who shall wilfully disregard the regulations made as provided in section 14, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees. 11 Every person required thereto by section 6 who refuses to sign the register book, and every person liable thereto under section 7 who refuses or neglects to provide the necessary stamp for the counterfoil certificate, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty rupees. 12 Where a marriage has been contracted under the provisions of this Ordinance, which, without the fault of the parties thereto, may have been omitted to be registered, or may have been erroneously registered, it shall be lawful to either of the said parties, or in case of his or her death, to the issue or other lawful representative of such party, to apply to the Number of certificate to correspond with that of register book. Certificate to be forwarded to provincial registrar. Governor to appoint Mohammedan registrar. Registrar may register marriages. Provisions applicable to registered. Penalties. Penalty for refusing to sign register, or not providing the necessary stamp. Power to supply omissions or correct errors in registration. |