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132 PDFTitle:PUBLIC HEALTH AND MUNICIPAL SERVICES ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:12Heading:Nuisances which may be dealt with summarilyVersion Date:30/06/1997

General

(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;
        (f) 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 s. 3.)
        (h) (Repealed 75 of 1988 s. 40)
(2) Nothing in subsection (1)(c) shall render a person punishable 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 Undertakings Ordinance (Cap 59) or the Air Pollution Control Ordinance (Cap 311). (Amended 17 of 1983 s. 50)