# Water (Scotland) Act 1980, Section 25: Power of authority to provide public wells.

Extent: S

(1) A local authority or Scottish Water may construct and maintain public pumps, wells, stand-pipes or other works for supplying water for the use of the inhabitants within their area or, as the case may be, its limits of supply.
(2) A local authority may erect and maintain or authorise to be erected and maintained in any road or public place within their area any drinking fountain or trough; but where the Secretary of State is the roads authoritythere shall be no such erection by the the local authority without his consent which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/section/25 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-25
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