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Annual Report 2008
 
 
 
 
 Home -->  Public Health --> section 133
 
 
UNDER SECTION 133 OF THE CANTT. ACT, THE  EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF ANY CANTONMENT MAY, BY NOTICE IN WRITTING
 
 
1. Require any person having the control whether as owner, lessee or occupier of any land or building in the Cantonment-
 
 
(i)
To close any cesspool appertaining to the land or building which is, in the opinion of the Executive Officer, a nuisance, or
(ii)
To prevent the water of any private latrine, urinal, sink or bathroom or any other offensive matter, from soaking, draining or flowing, or being put, from the land or building upon any street or other public place, or into any water-course or into in any drain not intended for the purpose, or
(iii)
To collect and deposit for removal by the conservancy establishment of the Board, within such time and in such receptacle or place, as may be specified in the notice, any offensive matter or rubbish which such person has allowed to accumulate or remain under, in or on such building or land.
 
 
2.  Require any person to desist from making or altering any drain leading into a public drain.
 
 
3.
Require any person having the control of a drain in the cantonment to cleanse, purify, repair or alter the same, or otherwise put it in good order, within such time as may be specified in the notice.
 
 
Under section 135 of the Cantonments Act, the Executive Officer may by notice in writing, require the owner or lessee of any building or land in the Cantonment to provide, in such manner as may be specified in the notice, any latrine, urinal, cesspool, dust-bin or other receptacle for filth, sewage, or rubbish, or any additional latrine, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle as aforesaid, which should, in his opinion, be provided for the building or land.
 
 
Under section 136 of the Cantonments Act every person employed, whether on behalf of the Government or otherwise, more than ten workmen or labourers, and every person managing or having control of a market, school, theatre or other place of public resort, in a Cantonment shall give notice of the fact to the Executive Officer, and shall provide such latrine and urinals, and shall employ such number of sweepers, as the Executive Officer thinks fit, and shall cause the latrines and urinals to be kept clean and in proper order.
 
 
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply in the case of a factory to which the Factories Act 194 (63 of 1948), applies.
 
 
4.
Where any plan for the construction of private latrines or urinals has been approved by the Board, and copies thereof may be obtained free of charge on application-
 
 
(a)
Require any person repairing or constructing any private latrine or urinal not to allow the same to be used until it has been inspected by or under the direction of the Health Officer and approved by him as conforming with such plan.
(b)
Require any person having control of any private latrine or urinal to re-build or alter the same in accordance with such plan.
(c)
Require the owner or other person having the control of any such private latrine or urinal which, in the opinion of the Board, constitutes a nuisance, to remove the latrine or urinal.
(d)
Require any person having the control whether as owner, lessee or occupier of any land or building in the Cantonment-
 
(i)
to have any latrines provided for the same shut out by a sufficient roof and wall or fence from the view of persons passing by or dwelling in the neighbourhood, or
(ii)
to cleanse in such manner as the Board may specify in the notice any latrine or urinal belonging to the land or building.
(e)
Require any person being the owner and having the control of any drain in the Cantonment to provide, within ten days from the service of the notice, such covering as may be specified in the notice.
   
 
 
 
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