The Assistant Executive Engineer, may cut off the supply of any premises, area, unit or a licensee on any one of the following grounds, namely :––
(a) if, after the receipt of a written notice from the Assistant Executive Engineer requiring him to refrain from so doing, the owner or occupier of the premises or unit, or the user or the licensee continues to use the water or permit the same to be used in contravention of the provisions of the Act or the rules ; or
(b) if any pipe, tap, fitting connected with the supply of water to the premises, area or unit be found, on inspection by an officer authorised in this behalf, to be out of repair to such an extent as to cause so serious a waste or contamination of water that in the opinion of the Assistant Executive Engineer immediate stoppage of water supply is necessary ; or
(c) if there is any water pipe situated within the premises or unit of a user or licensee to which no tap or other efficient means of turning the water off is attached ; or
(d) if, by reason of a leakage in the pipe, or fitting damage is caused to the public street and immediate stoppage of water supply is necessary.