(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).]