Singapore legislation

Clause 88

of Local Government Integration Ordinance

Clause 88

Prohibition of cultivation, use of manure or irrigation injurious to health

(1)

If at any time it appears to a Health Officer that the method of cultivation of any description of crop or the use of storing or method of preparing or dealing with any kind of manure not prohibited by section 87 of this Ordinance or the irrigation of land in any specific manner in any area is a nuisance, the Director may prohibit such method of cultivation, the use of storing or method of preparing or dealing with such manure or such manner of irrigation within such area or may regulate it by imposing such conditions thereon as may prevent the nuisance.

(2)

Notice of such prohibition or conditions shall be published in the Gazette.

(3)

The owner and occupier of any land upon which any method of cultivation, any kind of manure or any manner of irrigation is used in disregard of any such prohibition or conditions shall both be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and to a further fine of fifty dollars for every day during which the offence is continued and on a second conviction to the like fines or to imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months.