Clause 38

If any building is at any time not drained for sewage to the satisfaction of the Director by a sufficient drain or pipe communicating with some sewer or with the sea or some other place at which the Director is empowered to empty sewers, and if there are such means of drainage within one hundred feet of any part of such building, the Director may give a notice in writing requiring the owner thereof to construct or lay from such building a drain or pipe of such materials, of such size, at such level and with such fall as he thinks necessary for the sewage of such building.

If the owner fails to comply with such notice, a Magistrate’s Court may, on the application of the Director, make a mandatory order requiring the owner to construct or lay such drain or pipe, and the expenses incurred in respect thereof to an amount not exceeding three months’ rent of the building, if not forthwith paid by the owner, shall be recoverable as hereinafter provided.