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HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1911 - SECT 112

112 .         Local government to provide for removal of refuse and cleansing works

        (1)         A local government may, and when the Chief Health Officer so requires, shall undertake or contract for the efficient execution of the following works within its district, or any specified part of its district:

        [(a)         deleted]

            (b)         The supply of disinfectants for the prevention or control of disease, and pesticides for the destruction of pests.

            (c)         The cleansing of sanitary conveniences and drains.

            (d)         The collection and disposal of sewage.

            (e)         The cleaning and watering of streets.

                Provided that it shall not be lawful to deposit nightsoil in any place where it will be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health.

        (2)         Any local government which has undertaken or contracted for the efficient execution of any such work as aforesaid within its district or any part thereof may by local law prohibit any person executing or undertaking the execution of any of the work undertaken or contracted for within the district or within such part thereof as aforesaid, as the case may be, so long as the local government or its contractor executes or continues the execution of the work or is prepared and willing to execute or continue the execution of the work.

        (3)         After the end of the year 1934 no nightsoil collected in one district shall be deposited in any other district, except with the consent of the local government of such other district, or of the Chief Health Officer.

        [Section 112, formerly section 93, amended: No. 17 of 1918 s. 11; No. 30 of 1932 s. 17; renumbered as section 112: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 45 of 1954 s. 3; No. 38 of 1960 s. 3; No. 102 of 1972 s. 9; No. 28 of 1984 s. 45; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 28 of 1996 s. 8; No. 36 of 2007 Sch. 4 cl. 4(5); No. 19 of 2016 s. 100.]

[ 112A.         Deleted: No. 36 of 2007 Sch. 4 cl. 4(6).]



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