Section 3, The Guma Valley Water (Amendment) Act, 1969

Section 67 of the principal Act is hereby amended by theaddition at the end thereof of the following appoint agent for payment of rates. Guma Valley Water (Amendment) notice of occupation as required by subsection (3), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty leones and the Company shall be entitled to levy on and demand from such owner any rates or charges that may be levied or demanded under this Act in respect of the period between such non-occupation and occupation." M.P, CSF 20 (8) Any owner of premises in respect of which water rates and charges are payable by him shall. if he intends to be or is actually absent from Sierra Leone for a period exceeding two months, appoint and thereafter throughout such absence mainiain some person resident at an address in Sierra Leone to be his agent for the receipt of demands and for the payment of such rates and charges, and he and such agent shall notify the Company in writing of the appointment and of all changes in the identi y of such agent and of his address in Sierra Leone. Such agent shall be liable in all respects under this Act to the same ex ent as his appointor in respect of payments becoming due from the owner to the Company during the period of his agency.". Passed in the House of Representatives this 17th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine. J. W. E, DAVIES, Acting Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIS PRINTED 0MPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. W. E. DAVIES, Acting Clerk of the House of Representatives.