Water Board (Water Measurement) Regulations (Cap. 198)

works constructed without the authority of the Water Board shall constitute an offence and such work shall be demolished at the Water Board's discretion and the cost of demolition shall be borne by the offender. deviation and unauthorised construction 6. Any works on the course of any public stream shall be inspected by officers appointed by the Water Board and the Water Board may order any person or institution to execute such acts or repairs with respect to the works as may be necessary and, in the case of default, the Water Board shall carry out the act or repair and recover the cost from the defaulter. Inspection of works SECTION 46-THE WATER BOARD (WATER MEASUREMENT) REGULATIONS Regulations by the Minister Statutory Instrument 53 of 1994 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Water Board (Water Measurement) Regulations. Title 2. The Water Board may establish on any piece of land, hydrometeorological stations, or erect gauging weirs or plates or any other devices, for measuring the volume of water available in a particular stream or river, and obtain and record observations made at such measuring stations. Establishment of measuring stations 3. (1) The Water Board may, for the purpose of determining the volume of water abstracted from a stream or a river by a person or institution Installation of measuring devices (a) direct that person or that institution to instal such flow meters on that person's or that institition's pumping unit as the Water Board may consider fit; and (b) monitor electricity consumption of the appropriate transformer for that person's or that institition's pumping unit as often as necessary. (2) The cost of installing the flow meters referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) shall be borne by the person or that institition concerned. 4. No person or institution shall abstract from a stream or a river more water than is specified in that person's or that institution's water right. Abstraction of water 5. If the Water Board, upon investigation, establishes that a person or an institution has abstracted more water than is specified in the water right and that person or that institution fails to prove that the over-abstraction was inevitable, the Water Board may (a) revoke or vary the water right of that person or that institution; or (b) impose on that person or that institution such conditions as it may consider necessary. Penalty for over-abstraction CHAPTER 199 THE FORESTS ACT ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART I PRELIMINARY Section 1. Short title 2. Interpretation PART II ADMINISTRATION 3. Ownership of trees and forest produce 4. Chief Conservator of Forests 5. Deputy Chief Conservator of Forests 6. Other forest officers 7. Honorary forest officers PART III NATIONAL FORESTS