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as a drainlayer or as a plumber, and to endorse thereon the breach or failure or other matter contrary to these regulations and the date of its commission.

(5.) The Engineer shall keep a record of every license issued to a drainlayer or to a plumber, and such record shall include every endorsement made on any such license.

(6.) In the event of a person whose license has been endorsed as herein provided applying for a renewal of the license, every such endorsement shall be recorded on the license issued the next ensuing year to that in which the endorsement was made, and in the event of three such endorsements being recorded in respect to any license during any two consecutive years such license shall be cancelled.

(7.) Every person commits an offence under these regulations who makes use of a license issued to any other person, thereby falsely representing that he is the holder of such license, and it shall also be an offence on the part of any person to whom a license has been issued, who permits any other person to make false use of such license, and such license shall be thereupon cancelled.

Permission to undertake sanitary work.

8. No person shall establish, construct, extend, alter, repair, or remove any drain, sewage-tank, sanitary convenience, or sanitary appliance in connection with any new or existing building, or connect any sanitary convenience or sanitary appliance with any drain or sewage-tank, or do any sanitary plumbing, unless he shall have received from the local authority a permit for such work, and in respect of such permits the following conditions shall apply :—

(a.) Application for such permits shall be made to the local authority in the form prescribed in these regulations, and shall be signed by the owner of the premises to which the proposed work refers, or by his agent.

(b.) The application shall be accompanied by a block-plan showing every drain, sewage-tank, sanitary convenience, or sanitary appliance to which the application refers, and all fittings and appliances connected therewith, and in the case of drains shall show their position, levels, and grades.

(c.) Such block-plans shall be in ink on drawing-paper or tracing-cloth, and shall be to a scale of ⅛ in. to the foot, and shall remain in the custody of the local authority.

(d.) If so authorized by the local authority the Engineer may, at his discretion, dispense with the production of the plan if in his opinion the work is of so trivial a nature as to make such plan unnecessary.

(e.) After the Engineer shall have satisfied himself by an inspection of the premises that all conditions in connection with the work can be fulfilled in the manner prescribed in these regulations, and after the fees set out in the Second Schedule hereto have been paid, he shall issue a permit in the form herein prescribed and deliver it to the licensed drainlayer or licensed plumber named in the application.

Duties of drainlayers and plumbers in respect to work for which a permit has been issued.

9. Whenever the local authority has issued a permit to a licensed drainlayer or licensed plumber as provided in the last preceding section, such licensed drainlayer or licensed plumber shall carry out the work in accordance with the following provisions, that is to say :—

(a.) At least twenty-four hours before commencing any such work every drainlayer and every plumber authorized in the permit to carry out the work shall notify the Engineer in writing of the time at which it is his intention to begin such work, and shall deposit with the local authority the sum of £2 as security for any damage which may be done to any sewer, road-way, footpath, or other property of the local authority during the carrying-out of the work: Provided that when the work is completed the local authority shall refund such sum, after deducting therefrom such amount as has become due to the local authority as herein provided.

(b.) The work shall be carried out in accordance with and subject to the provisions of these regulations, and all sanitary conveniences and sanitary appliances and all accessories thereto required by these regulations and used in the carrying-out of the work shall be provided and used as specified in these regulations.