Section 70, The Sierra Leone Water Company Act, 2001

(1) Subject to subsection (2), nothing in this Act shall preclude any fire authority from abstracting water for the purpose of the prevention or control of fire, from any pipe, public fountain or waterworks. (2) No fire authority shall abstract water for the purpose of testing fire-fighting equipment except with the consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. (3) No charge shall be made for water supplied by the company under subsections (1) and (2). PASSED in Parliament this 20th day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand and one. J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk of Parliament. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk of Parliament. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE. GAZETTE NO. 41 OF 23RD AUGUST, 2001.