Water Services Industry Act 2006 Chapter 3 — Duties and obligations applicable to licensees

s 43–s 44 · 2 sections

Operating and maintaining public sewerage system

s 43

It shall be the duty of every service licensee operating and maintaining a public sewerage system— (a) to manage, operate, maintain, inspect, repair, alter, arch over or otherwise improve the public sewerage system and to treat and dispose of the contents thereof; and (b) to properly desludge the public sewerage system and for such purposes the service licensee may cause the construction or placing, either above or under ground, such sewers, pumps and other works as are necessary.

Septic tanks to be desludged

s 44

(1) The service licensee operating and maintaining a public sewerage system shall desludge the septic tanks in its sewerage services areas from time to time as may be prescribed. (2) The service licensee who fails to comply with its obligations under subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit.

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