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Power of Health Officer to inspect premises where
existence of
nuisance presumed.
Penalty for refusing admittance.
Action where mosquito larvae
found on premises.
Urban Council may serve notice requiring abatement
of nuisance.
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(b) prevent the formation anywhere therein of pools or of waste or stagnant water or sullage and prevent the making of any excavation on the said land likely to retain water with- out the previous permission of the Council in writing.
(c) keep clean any cistern, water-butt or other receptacle used for the storage of water, and keep the same covered or protected in such a manner as to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes therein.
(2) Whenever it appears to the Council that any land or any pond, tank, well, spring, seepage, drain stream, water- logged ground or swamp, or other collection of water therein is likely to be prejudicial or dangerous to health or a nuisance or offensive to health or favourable to the exitsence or pro- pagation of mosquitoes, the Council may by notice in writing require the owner of the land to take, within a reasonable time to be specified in the notice, such action in regard to such land or pond, tank, well, spring, seepage, drain, stream, waterlogged ground, or swamp, or other collection of water thereon as may in the opinion of the Council be necessary to prevent the land or water thereon being prejudicial or danger- ous to health or a nuisance or offensive to health or favourable to the existence or propagation of mosquitoes.
20. (1) It shall be lawful for any Health Officer on reasonable presumption of the existence of a nuisance on any premises, by an order in writing, to authorise any officer, with an assistant or assistants, to enter such premises at any time between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and to inspect the same.
(2) The inspecting officer shall produce and show the order to any person being, or claiming to be, the occupier of such premises: Provided that the inspecting officer shall not enter any house, or upon any land which may be occupied at any time, should such occupier object to his entry, without previously giving the said occupier two hours notice in writing of his intention to do so.
21. Any person refusing admittance to the said inspecting officer, after such notice has been given, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
22. When larvae of mosquitoes are found on any pre- mises, the Council may, on the advice of a Health Officer, give notice to the owner or occupier of such premises to remove all accumulations of water from such premises or to take steps to prevent the recurrence of the breeding of mosquitoes in any such accumulations of water, and such owner or occupier shall comply with such notice forthwith.
23. On the receipt of any information respecting the existence of a nuisance, the Urban Council shall, if satisfied of its existence, serve a notice on the author of the nuisance, or if such person cannot be found, on the owner or occupier of the premises on which the nuisance arises, requiring him to abate the same within a reasonable time to be specified in the notice, and to execute such works, and do such things as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided that—
(1) where the nuisance arises from the want, or defective construction, of any structural convenience, or where there is no occupier of the premises, notice under this section shall be served on the owner: