Prevention of obstruc- tion of sewers and drains by soil or nofuse.
Saving in relation to certain Ordinancca.
(34 of 1955).
(68 of 1955).
Punishment
of persons interfering with public
sewers or dralur.
Notice of existence of
disused drains.
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(e) wilfully, except with the permission in writing of the Authority. or negligently damages, alters, disconnects or otherwise inter- feres with any public sewer or drain or any connexion there- with,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) The Authority only may prosecute for an offence under the provisions of subsection (1), and shall not be obliged to prosecute if, in its opinion, the solid or other matter may be received into the public sewer or drain in question without risk of damage to structure or danger to the health of persons employed at or being near to such sewer or drain:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to derogate from the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of criminal offences.
7. (1) The Authority may cause a notice to be served on the owner or occupier of land adjoining any street or place in which is situated a public sewer, drain or drainage works requiring him, within such time as may be specified in such notice, so to fence off, channel or embank the land as to prevent soil or refuse being carried into such public sewer, drain or drainage works.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with any of the requirements of a notice served under the provisions of subsection (1) within the time specified therein shall be guilty of an offence.
8.
Nothing in section 6 or 7 shall be taken or construed to the prejudice of any powers conferred by the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, 1955 or the Buildings Ordinance, 1955.
9.
Any person who, without the permission of the Authority- (a) enters or attempts to enter any public sewer; or
(b) raises or covers up any grating, trap or manhole cover, ef otherwise interferes with any fitting connected with any public sewer or drain, or inserts any wire, net or other contrivance through any opening in any such grating, trap or manhole cover or through any other opening or vent in any public sewer or drain.
shall be guilty of an offence.
10. (1) The owner or, in default of the owner, the occupier of any premises shall, forthwith after it comes to his knowledge that there is any disused sewer or drain in, under or upon the premises, give notio in writing of the existence of such disused sewer or drain to the Authority.
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(2) If the owner or occupier, as the case may be, of any premises intends to cease to use any sewer or drain in, under of upon such premises, he shall forthwith give notice in writing of such intention to the Authority.
(3) Any person who fails to comply with any of the provisions of subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence
Provided that in any proceedings against the owner or occupier, as the case may be, in respect of a failure to comply with the provisions of subsection (1), it shall be a defence to prove that-
(a) in the case of proceedings against the owner, such owner had reasonable cause to believe that the occupier or a previous owner or occupier had given such notice; and
(6) in the case of proceedings against the occupier, such occupier had reasonable cause to believe that the owner or a previous owner or occupier had given such notice.
11. The Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing Regulations or providing for-
for the pro- Lection of
(a) the general or particular protection of public sewers, drains sewers and
or drainage works; and
drains and
(b) the prevention of nuisances arising from public or private of culance
sewers, drains or drainage works.
prevention
therefrom,
PART III.
GENERAL SANITATION AND CLEANLINESS.
General.
(2. (1) The following matters shall, subject as bereinafter Nuisances provided, be puisances which may be dealt with summarily under which may
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(a) any premises (including any cemetery) or vessel in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
(b) any pool, well, ditch, gutter, watercourse, drain, sewer, water tank or container, cesspool, pond, pit, sanitary convenience, soil, waste or rainwater pipe, dust bin or refuse container or other like place or thing so foul, or in such a state, as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health:
(c) any accumulation or deposit (including any dead body) which
is a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health:
(d) any animal or bird kept in such a place, or in such a manner, as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
(e) the emission of dust, fumes or effluvia from any premises in
such a manner as to be a nuisance;
be dealt with son- mmarily.