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21. In the first place it is not right that the time of

the Governor in Council should be taken up with a matter which,

within limits, has become largely a matter of routine. The

new section 162 therefore substitutes the permission of the

Colonial Secretary for the consent of the Governor in Council.

Government control is retained because, while the Board is

fully competent to weigh sanitary conditions, it is often not

in possession of the data necessary for dealing with other con-

siderations which are sometimes involved, e.g., questions of

drainage and water supply.

22.

In the second place, the only cases in which the

removal of water closets or urinals might clearly be ordered

under the principal Ordinance were the following -

(a) When they were a nuisance within the meaning of

section 26 of the principal Ordinance,

(b) When (i) they were in existence at the commence-

ment of the principal Ordinance and (ii) had,

without the permission of the Board or the con-

sent of the Governor in Council, a communication

with a public sewer or private drain.

(c) When they were, in the opinion of the Board and

of the Governor in Council, in an insanitary

condi tion.

Other cases where there should be a clear power to remove

readily suggest themselves, e.g., where there has been a breach

of a condition of the permission, where the well from which the

water supply was drawn has dried up, where a pump has become

defective, or where both parties intended originally that there

should be a power of revocation. Accordingly, sub-section(3)

of the new section 162 gives a magistrate power to order

removal (a) where the construction was unlawful, (b) where the

maintenance is unlawful, e.g., in breach of a condition, and

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