CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934 — Page 262

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General provisions as to water closets and urinals.

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81.-(1) No person shall hereafter maintain or allow to remain on any premises owned or occupied by him, any water closet or urinal unless such water closet or urinal was constructed with the consent of the Governor-in-Council or Colonial Secretary or was constructed in and is man hospital.

(2) No person shall hereafter construct any water closet or urinal on any premises owned or occupied by him except with the permission and at the discretion of the Director of Public Works and in accordance with the terms and conditions 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 inaintained without due permission or in breach of any of the terms or conditions of any such per- mission, or if the water closet or urinal has been kept in an insanitary or uncleanly condition.

(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 maintained. Such notice shail 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 Director of Public Works and shall be in the absolute discretion of the Director of Public Works.

(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 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 which any person may be liable to make an order empowering the Director of Public Works and any person authorized by him to enter the premises and to remove the water closet or urinal in question, and all expenses incurred by the Director of Public Works in causing such removal shall forthwith be paid by the person against whom the original order of removal was made, or failing him by the owner of the premises in question, without prejudice to any right of such person or owner to recover the amount of such expenses from any other person liable for the same.

(9) In this section "urinal" means a water flushed urinal.

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82. No person who shall erect a new between new building on a site excavated out of સ slope or building and declivity shall permit such building to abut against the hill-side, but a clear intervening space or area of a width of not less than one-fourth of the height of the cutting from such excavation shall be left between such building, along its whole extent, and the toe of the slope of the hill-side: Provided that such intervening space or area shall in no case be of a less width than eight feet in any part as measured on the ground level of such building, and shall not encroach in any way upon any street;