Act Number: 5

Act Name: The Oriental Gas Company Act, 1857

Year: 1857

Enactment Date: 1857-02-13

Long Title: An Act to confer certain powers on the Oriental Gas Company, Limited.

Ministry: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Department:

Section 15: Penalty for causing water to be corrupted. Daily penalty during the continuance of the offence.
    If the said Company shall at any time cause or suffer to be brought, or to flow into any stream, reservoir, aqueduct, pond, or place for water, or into any drain communicating therewith, any washing or other substance produced in making or supplying Gas, or shall wilfully do any act connected with the making or supplying of Gas, whereby the water in any such stream, reservoir, aqueduct, pond, on place for water, shall be fouled, the said Company shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding one thousand rupees; and they shall forfeit an additional sum not exceeding five hundred rupees for each day during which such washing or other substance shall be brought or shall flow, or the act by which such water shall be fouled shall continue, after the expiration of twenty-four hours from the time when notice of the offence shall have been served on the said Company, by the person into whose water such washing or other substance shall be brought or shall flow, or whose water shall be fouled thereby; and such penalties shall be paid to such last-mentioned person.
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