Latrines
not to be connected directly
with drains.
Daily cleansing of rail latrines.
Water closets and
urinals.
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40. No latrine other than a water-closet shall be main- tained or used so as to have any direct communication, by means of any pipe, drain or grating, with any underground private drain or public sewer, and any existing latrine, not being a water-closet, having such communication shall have the same completely cut off by the owner when so required by the Building Authority.
41. In the case of pail latrines the closets and pails shall be cleansed daily and the nightsoil removed and disposed of daily. Where pail latrines are provided for the use of tenants of blocks of tenement houses these requirements shall be carried out by such persons as the Council may direct.
42.--(1) No person shall maintain, or allow to remain water flushed on any premises owned or occupied by him, any water closet or urinal constructed before the 24th day of June, 1927, unless such water closet or urinal was constructed with the permission of the Sanitary Board and the consent of the Governor in Council or was constructed in and is in a hospital.
(2) Except with the permission of the Council and in accordance with the terms of such permission no person shall construct any water closet or urinal; nor shall any person maintain or allow to remain on any premises owned or occupied by him, any water closet or urinal constructed since the 23rd day of June, 1927, unless such water closet or urinal was constructed with the permission of the Sanitary Board and of the Colonial Secretary and in accordance with the terms of such permission.
(3) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order the removal of any water closet or urinal whatsoever if the water closet or urinal was constructed or has been maintained without due permission or in breach of any of the terms or conditions of any such permission, or if the water closet or urinal has been kept in an insanitary or uncleanly condition or has no sufficient supply of water for the flushing thereof to the satisfaction of the Council.
(4) A magistrate shall order the removal of any water closet or urinal whatsoever which has not been removed within fourteen days after a notice to remove it shall have been served on either the owner or the occupier of the premises on which the water closet or urinal was being main- tained. Such notice shall be effective notwithstanding any intermediate dealing with the said premises.
(5) The notice referred to in sub-section (4) may be given at any time by the Council and shall be in the absolute discretion of the Council.
(6) Any order of a magistrate under this section may be made against either the owner or the occupier of the premises on which the water closet or urinal is being maintained.
(7) Any order of a magistrate made under this section. shall be a complete authority to the person against whom it is made to remove the water closet or urinal in question.
(8) If the water closet or urinal is not removed within such time as may be limited by the magistrate it shall be lawful for a magistrate, without prejudice to any penalty to