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Is a court order needed to disconnect water

  • 26-05-2009 6:23pm
    #1
    Our man in Havana
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    Is a court order needed to disconnect the water supply from a household?


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  • #2
    GerardKeating
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    Bond-007 wrote: »
    Is a court order needed to disconnect the water supply from a household?

    Not if it can be disconnected from outside.

    A restraining order could be sought to prevent disconnection, but if said proposed disconnection was due to non-payment of a bill, it would be cheaper to pay the bill than go legal on it.


  • #3
    dats_right
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    Local Authority water charges for domestic dwellings were abolished in 1997, so the vast majority of the population who are connected to a mains supply don't have to pay any charges so disconnection for non-payment does not arise. However, private water schemes, usually in rural locations, and not connected to the mains supply often have their own arrangements re charges, etc. As far as I am aware there is no specific legislation governing this area, so I would have thought that the rules that apply are based on contract i.e the express and implied terms agreed between the members of such a sheme. I would have thought that the trustees of such a sheme would be far more likely to utilise normal liquidated debt court proceedings to recover monies owed, etc than to cut-off supply.


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