Insiza Rural District Council (Water, Sewerage and Drainage) By-laws, 2025

These by-laws govern the supply of water and the sewerage and drainage services of the Insiza Rural District Council.

Part II covers the supply of water: applying for a connection, provision of the connection pipe, payment for services, termination, restoration and discontinuation of supply, payment through prepayment meters, disconnection on termination of the agreement, quality and pressure of water, supply by portable meter, and supplies for building purposes.

Part III covers metering. The council provides the meter, and the quantity registered is deemed to be the quantity actually supplied and must be paid for at the prescribed tariff. Where a bill contains a factual error — in a meter reading, a conversion, a calculation, the scale of charges, a minimum or fixed charge, or a change in the consumer's service or usage — the council issues an amending account covering the four months before the error was discovered. A consumer who disputes a reading is bound by the entry in the council's books unless they can show the entry was wrongly made or the meter was misreading, and there is a procedure for testing a meter where a consumer is dissatisfied and for dealing with a meter that fails to register.

The extract available here is truncated part way through the metering provisions, so the sewerage, drainage and tariff schedules of the by-laws should be read in the instrument itself.