Singapore legislation
Clause 109
Clause 109
Nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily under this Ordinance
For the purposes of this Ordinance —
any premises or part thereof of such a construction or in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
any pool, gutter, water-course, cistern, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, urinal, cesspool, sewer, drain, dung-pit or ash-pit so foul or in such a state or so situate as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
any animal kept in such place or manner or in such numbers as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
any dust, effluvium, accumulation or deposit which is a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health or is likely to become a breeding place for mosquitoes;
any factory, work-shop or work-place which —
is not kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any sewer, drain, privy, earth-closet, urinal or other nuisance; or
is not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as practicable any gases, vapours, dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work carried on therein that are a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health; or
is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of those employed therein;
any huts or sheds, whether used as dwellings or as stables or for any other purpose, which are by reason of the manner in which the huts or sheds are crowded together or the want of drainage or the impracticability of scavenging or for any other reason a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
any hut or shed, whether used as a dwelling or as a stable or for any other purpose, which is a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
any well, pool or ditch the water from which is used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes or for manufacturing food for the use of man and which is so polluted or is likely to become so polluted as to be injurious or dangerous to health;
any tank, well, pool, water-course, ditch or low marshy ground which is injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or is or is likely to become a breeding place for mosquitoes;
any fire-place or furnace and any chimney sending off smoke or other unconsumed combustible matter in such quantity as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
any brick-field, sandpit or any other kind of excavation which is injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or used for any purpose likely to be injurious to health; and
any other matter declared by this Ordinance to be a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily,shall be a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under this Ordinance.