Section 1: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires–

“Board” means the Board of Directors appointed under section 3; “bulk supply of water” means a supply of water for distribution by bulk to consumers or persons taking the supply and includes a supply of water under section 16; “catchment area” means any area of land or water from which water contributes to the supply of any water work and thedemarcation of which has been agreed between the Company and the relevant local authority; “Company” means the Guma Valley Water Company; “commercial water supply and use” means a water supply system, including any source, intake, treatment, storage, transmission or distribution, that is intended to provide the public with potable piped water; “Commission” means the National Commission for Privatization established under section 3 of the NCP Act, 2002 (Act No 12 0f 2002); “consumer” means a person supplied with water by the Company; “Council” means the Freetown City Council established under the Local Government Act, (Act No. 1 of 2004); “domestic water supply and use” means a supply of water for drinking, washing, cooking and sanitary purpose, and includes a supply for the purposes of a profession carried on in any premises, the greater part whereof is used as a dwelling and where the water is drawn from a tap inside a house and no hosepipe or similar apparatus is used, a supply for watering a garden and for washing vehicles kept for private use and domestic water use shall be construed accordingly; “Electricity and Water Regulatory Commission’’ means the Commission established under the Electricity and Water Regulatory Commission Act, 2012; “fire authority” means the Sierra Leone Fire Force; “Guma land” means the land described in Part I of the First Schedule and the construction thereon described in Part II of that Schedule; “Guma works” means the work carried out and the land described in Part III of the First Schedule; “limits of supply” means the area of supply as provided in section 13 as may be varied from time to time by the Commission; “local authority” means a public body created under the Local Government Act, 2004, exercising authority within a specified area or space; “Managing-Director” means the Managing-Director of the Company appointed under section 25; “main” means a pipe transferred to or laid by the Company for the purpose of giving a general supply of water as distinct from a supply to individual consumers, and includes any apparatus used in connection with such a pipe; “meter” includes any appliance used to measure or ascertain amounts of water, but does not include a gauge; 2 3 “Minister” means the Minister responsible for water resources and ‘’Ministry“ shall be construed accordingly; ‘‘premises” includes messuages, buildings, lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed and whether public or private; “Secretary” means the secretary of the Company appointed under section 27; “service pipe” means any pipe for supplying water from a main to any premises, subject to water pressure from that main or would be so but for the closing of some tap, or part of any such pipe, and includes stopcocks and other necessaryfittings; “Special Reserve Fund” means the fund established and maintained under section 42; “street” includes a highway, a public bridge, land, pedestrian way, square, court, alley or passage, or other thoroughfare or open space over which the public have a right of passage, and whether or not there are houses in the street; “water fittings” includes pipes (other than mains), taps, cocks, valves, ferrules, meters, cisterns, baths, water closets and similar apparatus used in connection with the supply and use of water; “water tariffs and charges” means the tariffs and charges which the Company is from time to time authorised to demand and collect for supply of water and other services; 4 5 PART II—CONTINUATION OF THE GUMA VALLEY WATER COMPANY