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Removal of offensive or DOKIOUS matter or liquid through streets, etc.

street or road, nor shall any person bring outo any such public strea or road any cart, vehicle, agricultural implement or machine withou having previously removed, so far as is reasonably practicable, any ma!, clay, lime or other material which is adhering to the wheels, framewort or body thereof and which is likely to result in the dirtying or injuring of the road surface.

11. No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, place, cause to be placed, any corpse or carcase or any part thereof in any street or public place, open space, beach, foreshore, refuse barge w refuse depot or in any drain, water-course or harbour.

12. No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, rake, pré over or grub in any refuse deposited in or upon any public place, sacar! land, refuse depot or refuse dump, or remove or scatter any port: of any refuse so deposited.

13. No person, in removing from any premises any filth, dun. ashes or refuse of whatever description, shall deposit it upon any stres: or public place or in the sea.

14. (1) Every person conveying any filth, dust, ashes or reex of any kind whatsoever in or through any street or public plac shall

convey the same in containers suitably covered so as to prever access to the contents thereof of flies or the spilling of any of the or tents therefrom and in addition thereto shall take all other nectSSI precautions to prevent any such filth, dust, ashes or refuse from falling upon such street or public place.

(2) If, during such conveyance, any filth, dust, ashes or refas: whatever description shall so fall, such person shall forthwith clean thr place on which it falls.

15. (1) Save with the permission of the Director, no person 17- remove or carry, or cause to be removed or carried, through any street or public place any excretal matter, pigwash, manure or other offer: | or noxious matter or liquid of whatever description unless the remot or carriage is effected in a receptacle properly constructed of impervivu material and covered with a close-fitting lid so as to prevent the escart therefrom of any of the contents or any smell or in a vehicle or ve so constructed as to prevent the escape therefrom of any such offensi or noxious matter or liquid or any smell arising therefrom.

(2) No person shall empty, discharge, deposit or place in, or ot vey to, any gully, sewer or any inlet thereto any pigwasb.

(3) If, in the course of its removal or carriage through any or public place, any such excretal matter, pigwash, manure or offens or noxious matter or liquid has been dropped or spilt, the person

has caused or allowed it to be dropped or spilt shall immediately cause the place whereon it was dropped or spilt to be cleansed.

(4) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to the carriage through. an or over any field, footpath or bund in any rural area of any matter or liquid by any person engaged in farming.

16. No person shall employ for gain or otherwise any child under Children the age of sixteen years to convey in or through any street or public under the age of 16 lace refuse of any kind, except such refuse as emanates from the house- not to be wold of which such child is a member.

employed to carry refuse.

PART III.

DISPOSAL OF HOUSE REFUSE.

17. The occupier of any premises shall remove from such premises, Removal of

in the manner provided in this Part, all house refuse accumulated there. house refuse.

u, and such removal shall, save in the case of a typhoon or other exceptional circumstances, be effected at least once in every twenty-four bous where a refuse chute is provided in the premises or, where no such chute is provided, then at least once within the twenty-four hours immediately preceding each day on which a public refuse collection vehicle (if any) visits the area in which such premises are situate for The purpose of collecting house refuse.

18. Where a refuse chute is provided in any premises, the occupier Duty of of such premises or of any part thereof shall tip, or cause to be tipped, pier

where pofuse all house refuse, other than dangerous refuse, into the hopper provided chute is therefor in the chute.

provided.

19. (1) Where a refuse chute is provided in any premises, the Duty of owner of such premises, or, if the chute is in separate ownership, the owner of owner of such chute, shall--

(a) at all times, maintain the shaft, hopper, storage chamber and surrounds in a clean condition and take all other necessary precautions to prevent any nuisance arising therefrom;

(b) provide, and use at the chute, portable refuse storage con- tainers of sufficient capacity to receive the refuse tipped into the chute and made of such material and to such specifications as the Director may approve; and

(c) each day, remove, or cause to be removed, to such refuse boat or refuse depot as the Director may allocate for the purpose all of the refuse tipped into the chute:

Provided that, where the portable refuse storage containers do not exceed twenty cubic feet capacity, the contents thereof may be deposited daily in a public refuse collection vehicle (if any),

refuse chute

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