(1) No person shall,-
(a) wilfully obstruct any person acting under the authority of the Board in setting out the lines of any works or pull or remove any pillar post or stake fixed in the ground for the purpose of setting out the lines of such work or deface or destroy any works made for the same purpose; or Work to be done by licenced Engineer or Plumber.
Prohibition of certain acts.
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(b) wilfully or negligently break, injure, turn on, open, close, shut off or otherwise interfere with any lock, cock, valve, pipe, meter or other works or apparatus belonging to the Board; or
(c) unlawfully obstruct the flow off or flush, draw off or divert, or take, water from any water works belonging to the Board or any water course by which any such water is supplied; or
(d) obstruct any officer or other employee of the Board in the discharge of his duties under this chapter or refuse or wilfully neglect to furnish him with the means necessary for the making of any entry, inspection, examination or inquiry thereunder in relation to any water work; or
(e) bath in, at or upon any water works or wash or throw or cause to enter therein any animal, or throw any rubbish, dirt or flith into any water works or clean therein any cloth, cause water of any sink, or drain or any steam engine or boiler or any polluted water to turn or be brought into any water works, or do any other act whereby the water; any water works is fouled or likely to be fouled.
(2) Nothing in clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall apply to a consumer closing the stop-cock fixed on the service pipe supplying water to his premises so long as he has obtained the consent of any other consumer whose supply will be affected thereby.