Section 12

Notice may be given by the Commissioner to any person carrying on a trade, manufacture or business or occupying any stable, cattle-shed or place for keeping sheep, goats, swine or poultry, requiring the periodical removal of trade refuse or stable refuse.

Any person to whom such notice is given and who fails to comply with it shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction, without further notice, to a fine not exceeding $200 for every day during which such non-compliance continues.

The Commissioner may contract with any person for removing any night-soil, human excreta, dung, urine, trade refuse, stable refuse or garden refuse from his premises upon such terms and conditions and for such periods as the Commissioner thinks fit.

The amount due by any contracting person to the Government shall be recoverable in the manner provided under section 121.

If any dispute or difference of opinion arises between the person to whom such a notice as is mentioned in subsection (1) has been given and the Commissioner as to what is to be considered as trade refuse or stable refuse, the Minister, on request made by either party, may determine whether the subject-matter in dispute is or is not trade refuse or stable refuse, as the case may be, and the decision of the Minister shall be final and shall not be called in question in any court.[13