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Section 12 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance

Nuisances which

may be dealt

with summarily.

PART III

GENERAL SANITATION AND CLEANLINESS

General

12. (1) The following matters shall, subject as hereinafter provided. be nuisances which may be dealt with summarily under section 127-

:

(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;

the emission of dust from any building under construction or demolition in such a manner as to be a nuisance;

(g) the emission of air either above or below the temperature of the external air, or the discharge of water, whether waste or otherwise, from the ventilating system in any premises in such a manner as to be a nuisance; (Added, 61 of 1974, 5.3)

(h) the emission of noise from any ventilating system, or any part thereof, in such a manner or at such a level as to be a nuisance. Added, 61 of 1976, s. 2)

(2) Nothing in subsection (1)(c) shall render a person punish- able in respect of any accumulation or deposit necessary for the effectual carrying on of a business or manufacture, if the court is satisfied that the accumulation or deposit has not been kept longer than is necessary for the purposes of the business or manufacture and that the best available means have been taken for preventing injury thereby to the public health.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be taken or construed to the prejudice of the provisions of the Factories and Industrial Under- takings Ordinance or the Air Pollution Control Ordinance 1983

17 of 1983. 4. 50.

:

(17 of 1983 #

(Cap. 59.3

(Cap. 31ka

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