Waterworks Clauses Act 1952
39Connection with private pipes
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 39
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Waterworks Clauses Act 1952.
39 Connection with private pipes
(1) Wherever the undertakers lay communication pipes to the boundary of any land to be supplied with water they may either connect them to the communication pipes laid on that land for the purpose or may terminate them at the boundary.
(2) Where the undertakers terminate the communication pipes at the boundary of any land, the person wishing to connect a pipe on the land with one of the undertakers' pipes shall give two days' notice of the day and hour when he intends to make the connection, and shall make it under the superintendence, and according to the directions, of the officer appointed for that purpose by the undertakers, unless no such officer attends at the time mentioned in the notice.
(3) No such notice shall be required where the person making the connection is authorised by the undertakers to do such work without supervision.