When the local
government opens or breaks up the soil or pavement of a street it shall
—
(a) with
all dispatch complete the work for which it is broken up, and fill in the
ground and reinstate and make good the street or pavement so opened or broken
up; and
(b)
while any portion of such street or pavement continues to be opened up or
broken up, cause such portion of the street or pavement to be fenced or
guarded, and sufficient light to be kept there at night.
[Section 66 inserted: No. 38 of 1933 s. 23 and 42;
amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]