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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 10.29
DRAINAGE FACILITIES AND SEWER 
CONNECTION REGULATIONS
1st June, 1975;
5th August, 1975;
1st January, 1989
LEGAL NOTICES 88 of 1975, 52 of 1976, as amended by Act XIII of
1983, and 111 of 1988, consolidated, and as amended by Act XI of 1987.
Title .
Sewer Connection Regulations.
Drainage Facilities
Imposition of 
easements. 
Cap. 88
2. Where any sewer, or any part of the public sewer, which is
to be laid by any owner other than the Government, is to pass
through or across any land not belonging to the Government, the
Commissioner of Land shall take all necessary steps for the
imposition of the relative easement in accordance with the
provisions of the Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Ordinance.
Agreement with 
owners.
3. The Director of Public Works may, with the approval of the
Minister responsible for Public Works, enter into any agreement
with the owner of any house in connection with the communication
of the relative privy or privies with the public sewer, and any such
agreement may include the contribution by him of such part of the
total expenditure incurred or to be incurred in the said
communication as the said Minister, with the concurrence of the
Minister responsible for Finance, may decide either generally or
with respect to any particular case.
Apportionment of 
expenditure.
4. Where, consequential to an order given by the
Superintendent of Public Health, any part of the public sewer is laid
by any one or more owners of houses, and such part is intended to
be made use of at any time by other such owner or owners, the total
expenditure involved in such laying shall be apportioned on a
frontage proportion as between all owners of the land
neighbouring, or opposite to, the houses in question on which land
houses have been or may be erected, and the owner or owners who
shall have incurred the original expenditure shall have a right of
reimbursement against the other owner or owners with respect to
the share of the latter.
Works by Director 
of Public Works.
5. Where several houses in any particular area are to be
connected with the public sewer, and one or more of the owners of
such houses does not agree with the other owners on the work to be
done and/or on the expenditure involved, the Director of Public
Works may, if he so determines, carry out all or any part of the
necessary work at the expense of the several owners, and the total
expenditure incurred by him shall be borne by all the said owners in
the manner set out in regulation 4.
Time of payment.
any developable land may be compelled to pay any share or
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proportion of the expenditure referred to in the said regulation 4
until a building permit has been issued to him by the Planning
Authority in respect of his particular plot.
Payment of 
interests. 
7. Where any amount is due to the Director of Public Works
or to any other person for works carried out in accordance with the
provisions of regulation 4 or 5, the debtor of any such amount shall
pay interests thereon at the rate of 6 per cent  per annum  as from the
date in which the said amount became due.
Sewer connection
Fee leviable.
Amended by:
XIII.1983.5;
XI. 1987.140.
Cap. 10.
8. Where the Director of Public Works lays the connection
between the public sewer and the intercepting chamber of any
house as provided in article 97(2) of the Code of Police Laws, the
following fees shall be payable to the said Director by the owner of
such house:
( a ) in the case of a connection excavated in made up
ground or in soft rock - Lm30 per connection;
( b ) in the case of a connection excavated in hard rock -
Lm35 per connection:
Provided that where the distance between the main sewer
and the point of connection with the private property is under three
metres the connection fee shall be Lm20:
Cap. 318.
Provided further that, in the case of an owner-occupied
house, no fee shall be levied if it is shown that such owner is in
receipt of social assistance or of a non-contributory pension
awarded under the Social Security Act. 
Fees (main sewer)
Payment of fees. 9. Whosoever applies to the Planning Authority for a permit
to construct or reconstruct a house, shall, before the issue of such a
permit, pay in full to the Director of Works all such fees laid down
in regulation 10 in respect of the proposed or existing laying of the
main sewer, provided that the proposed or existing house is not
situated at a distance exceeding 600 metres from a main sewer.
Fees leviable. 10. The following fees shall be due to the Director of Works
for the laying of the main sewer intended to serve a proposed house
in respect of:
( a ) the proposed or existing ground and first floors of such
house, per metre run of frontage thereof:
(i) where the land opposite such house is indicated
for building development  ..................... Lm8;
(ii) where the land opposite such house is not
indicated for building development  .... Lm12; 
( b ) every additional floor over the ground and first floors
of a proposed house, per metre run of the frontage
thereof additional Lm4;
( c ) a proposed house lying on a corner plot and having a
frontage on two streets, payment shall be made on the
longer frontage thereof together with an additional
one-half of the payment due on the length of the corner
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splay:
Provided that the minimum leviable fee for each proposed
house in this regulation shall be Lm32.
