Unauthorised connection with main, contamination, wastage, etc.
50.—(1)  Any person who —
(a)lays or causes to be laid any pipe or line to communicate with any main, pipe, standpipe, hydrant or line belonging to or under the management or control of the Board without the consent of the Board;
(b)wastes any water;
(c)causes contamination to water supplied by the Board; or
(d)wilfully does any act which interferes with or disrupts the supply of the water of the Board,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.
(2)  Any person who —
(a)dishonestly or fraudulently abstracts, uses or consumes, or dishonestly or fraudulently diverts or causes to be diverted, any water supplied by the Board;
(b)without the written consent of the Board, supplies for consideration any other person with any water supplied to the first-mentioned person for any purpose by the Board; or
(c)alters or tampers with any meter supplied by the Board,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,500 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.
(3)  Where any person is prosecuted for an offence under subsection (2)(c) —
(a)the possession by him of any device for altering the index of any meter or for preventing any meter from duly registering the quantity of water supplied by the Board;
(b)the existence of any hole on the meter cover of any meter supplied by the Board; or
(c)the existence of any damage to the seal of any meter,
when the meter is in the custody or under the control of the person, shall be prima facie evidence that the person has altered or tampered with the meter.