Section 221(3)

Any reference in this Act to water contained in underground strata is a reference to water so contained otherwise than in a sewer, pipe, reservoir, tank or other underground works constructed in any such strata; but for the purposes of this Act water for the time being contained in— shall be treated as water contained in the underground strata into which the well, borehole or work was sunk or, as the case may be, the excavation was made. a well, borehole or similar work, including any adit or passage constructed in connection with the well, borehole or work for facilitating the collection of water in the well, borehole or work; or any excavation into underground strata, where the level of water in the excavation depends wholly or mainly on water entering it from those strata,

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