The Government of Tamil Nadu on July 05, 2024, issued the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage (Amendment) Act, 2024 to further amend the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Act, 1978.
The following amendments have been stated:
• For section 77 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely: —
“77.Offences and penalties.— (1) Whoever contravenes provisions of sub-section (5) of section 42, sub-section (2) of section 46, sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 48, clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 49, sub-section (1) of section 50, sub-section (2) of section 51, sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 52, sub-section (1) of section 53, section 54, sub-sections (1), (3) and (4) of section 56, clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 58, sub-section (1) of section 59, sub-section (1) of section 60, sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 61, sub-section (1) of section 62 and section 69 of this Act or of any regulation or other instrument made thereunder shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend upto ten thousand rupees or with both and in the case of a continuing contravention, with additional fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first such contravention.
(2) Whoever contravenes provisions of section 7, sub-sections (2), (4) and (6) of section 45, sub-section (1) of section 46, sub-section (2) of section 47 and sub-section (1) of section 68 of this Act or of any regulation or other instrument made thereunder shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding five thousand rupees for the first offence and ten thousand rupees for second or any subsequent offence.”.
It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.
[ACT No. 23 OF 2024]
