Keyword(s):
Drain, Local Authority, The Madras Metropolitan Area, Occupier, Sewer, Trade
Effluent, Water Supply, Water Work
An Act to provide for the constitution of the Madras
Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board,
for excltlsively attending to the growing needs of
and for planned development and appropriate
regulation of water supply and sewerage services
in the Madras Metropolitan Area with particular
reference to the protection of Public health and for
all matters connected therewith or incidental
thereto.
Bn it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Tamil Nadu
in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as
follows:-
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CHAPTER I.
Short title
and commen-
czment.
- (1) This Act may be called the Madras Metropolitan
Water Supply and Sewerage Act, 1978.
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- For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Tamil Nadu
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the
Government may, by notification, appoint ;and different
dates may be appointed for different areas and for different
provisions of this Act.
- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
fin~on~e
(a) “authorised authority” in relation to any power
to be exercised or function to be performed under any
provision of this Act means any committee, director, officer
or other employee of the Board to whom such power or
function has been delegated under section 22;
Government Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 10th January 1978,
Part IV-Section 1, Page 196.808
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(b) “Board” means the Madras Metropolitan Water
Supply and Sewerage Board established under section 3 ;
(c) “director” means the director of the Board and
includes its Chairman and Managing Director;
(d) “drain” includes a tunnel, pipe, ditch, gutter or
channel or any cistern, flush-tank, septic tank, cess pool,
or other devicefor carryingoff ortreatingordisposingsewage,
sullage, offensive matter, polluted water, waste water or
sub-soil water, and also includes eny culvert, ventilator,
shaft or pipe or other appliances or fittings connected with
such drain, and any ejector, compressedair mains, sealed
sewage mains and special machinery or apparatus for
raising, collecting, expelling or removing sewage,
sullage or offensive matter from any place; but does not
includea rain or storm water drain or awater table construc-
ted by the side oftheroad kerb or a chute leading from
such water table to a side drain exclusively meant to drain
away rain water on the road;
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(e) “existing authority ” includes-
(i) a local authority having jurisdiction over tbe
Madras Metropolltan Area.or part thereof ;and
(ii) the Government ; I
(f)”local authority ” means-
(i) the Municipal Corporation of Madras ;or
(ii) a municipal council, constituted under the
Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (Tamil
Nadu Act V of 1920) or a panchayat union council or a
panchayat constituted under the Tamil Nadu Panchayats
Act, 1958 (Tamil Nadu Act XXXV of 1958), or
(iii) a township committee constituted under the
Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920(Tamil Nadu
Act V of 1920) or the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1958
(Tamil Nadu Act XXXV of 1958) or under any other
law for the time being in force, or
(iv) the Tamil Nadu State Hdusing Board con-
stituted under section 3 of the Tamil Nadu State Housing
Board Act, 1961 (Tamil Nadu Act 17 of 1961) (herein-
after referred to as the Tamil Nadu State Housing 1
Bmrd), or1978: T.N. Act 281
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Water Supply and Sewerage
(v) the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage
Board constituted under section 4 of the Tamil Nadu
Water Supply and Drainage Board Act, 1970 (TamilNadu
Act 4 of 1971) (hereinafter referred to as the Tamil Nadu
Water Supply and Drainage Board), or
(vi) the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board
establishyd under section 34 of the Tamil Nadu Slum
Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1971 (Tamil
Nadu Act 11 of 1971) (hereinafter referred to as the Tamil
Nadu Slum Clearance Board), or
(vii) the Madras Metropolitan Development
Authority established under section 9-A of the Tamil Nadu
Town and Country Planning Act, 1971 (Tamil Nadu Act
35 of 1972), (hereinafter referred to as the Madras
Metropolitan Development Authority) ;
(g) “Government “means the State Government ;
(h) “Madras Metropolitan Area ” means the
Madras Metropolitan Planning Area as defined in clause
(23-a) of section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Town and Country
Planning Act, 1971 (Tamil Nadu Act 35 of 1972) ;
(i) “notified date “in relation to any local authority
means the date notified under sub-section (1) of section 26
in respect of that local authority ;
(j) “occupier ” includes,-
(i) any person for the time being paying or liable
to pay to the owner, the rent or any portion of the rent
of land or building or part of the same in respect of which
the word is used or damages on account of the occupation
of such land, or building or part thereof ;and
(ii) a rent free occupant ;
(k) “owner ” includes-
(a) the person for the time being receiving or
entitled to receive, whether on his own account or as
agent, trustee, guardian, manager or receiver or for any
religious or charitable purpose, the rents or profits of the
property in connection with which the word is used.
(b)the person for the time being in charge of the
animal in connection with which the word 1s used ;
(1) “prescribed ” means prescribed by regulations
made by the Board ;.
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