Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board Act, 1976

No: 28 Dated: Jul, 30 1976

THE PUNJAB WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE BOARD ACT, 1976

(Punjab Act No. 28 of 1976)

An Act to provide for the establishment of Water Supply and Sewerage Board for the purpose of regulation and development of drinking water supply and sewerage in the State of Punjab.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

Chapter I

Preliminary

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board Act, 1976.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Punjab.

(3) Chapters I and II shall come into force at once and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and for different areas of the State.

2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires :-

(1) "Board" means the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board established under section 3;

(2) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board;

(3) "Committee" means a Committee appointed under Section 17;

(4) "Department of Public Health" means the Department of Public Health of the Government;

(5) "Government" means the Government of the State of Punjab;

(6) "Local authority" means a Municipal Corporation, Municipal Committee, Notified Area Committee, Town Improvement Trust, Panchayat Samiti or Gram Panchayat or any other authority entrusted with their functions under any law for the time being in force;

(7) "director" means a director of the Board and includes the Chairman, Senior Vice-Chairman, Vice-Chairman and the Managing Director;

(8) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(9) "regulation" means the regulations made under this Act;

(10) "rules" mean the rules made under this Act;

(11) "scheme" means a scheme relating to the provisions of drinking water and sewerage and matters incidental thereto and includes a preliminary or a draft scheme prepared for the above purpose;

(12) "sewerage" means any device for carrying off sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, waste water, rain water or seepage water;

(13) "year" means the financial year commencing on the first day of April.

Chapter II

Establishment and Incorporation of Board

3. Establishment and Incorporation of Board. - (1) The State Government may, by notification, establish for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act a Board to be called "the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board" and such Board shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold or dispose of property, both movable and immovable and shall, by the said name, sue and be sued.

(2) The Board shall have its headquarters at Patiala or at such other place as may be notified by the Government from time to time.