Removal of filth,etc.,
and recovery of expenses.
Summary proceedings.
Saving of liability of offender to indictment or action.
Acts done by lawful authority.
Recovery of penalties.
Regulations,
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26.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Inspector General of Police to require any person whose duty it may be to remove any filth or obstruction, or to do any other matter or thing required to be done by this Ordinance, to do so within a certain time to be then fixed by the said officer, and, in default of such requisition being complied with, the officer shall cause to be removed such filth or obstruction or do or cause to be done such other matter or thing as aforesaid.
(2) It shall be lawful for the magistrate by whom any person has been convicted of an offence in respect of any such filth or obstruction to order such offender, in addition to the penalities hereinbefore imposed, to pay such sum of money for defraying the expenses of such removal, or of doing such other matter or thing, as to the magistrate may seem just and reasonable; and the sum so ordered shall be recoverable in the manner hereinafter provided for the recovery of penalties imposed by this Ordinance.
27. All summary proceedings under this Ordinance may be had on the information of any complainant.
any
28. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to prevent any person from being indicted or from being proceeded against by indictment or information for offence made punishable on summary conviction by this Ordinance, or to prevent any person from being liable to be proceeded against by action for any hurt or damage caused by him: Provided, nevertheless, that no person be punished twice for the same offence, and provided that no compensation has been awarded for such hurt or damage,
29. Nothing in this Ordinance shall operate to the restraint or punishment of any act or thing done under or sanctioned by lawful authority, but in every case the proof of such lawful authority shall lie on the person alleging the
same.
30. Every offence against the provisions of this Ordin- ance or of any Regulation made thereunder shall be punishable on summary conviction; and the penalties imposed by this Ordinance or by any Regulation made thereunder shall be recoverable according to the provisions of any Ordinance regulating the summary jurisdiction of magistrates.
31. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the issue of permits under section 3, for the dressing of stone under section 4, for the control of noises under sections 12 and 13 and generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
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