Singapore legislation

Clause 89

of Local Government Integration Ordinance

Clause 89

Scavenging of private premises

(1)

Notice may be given by the Director 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 or stable refuse.

(2)

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

(3)

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

(4)

The amount due by any contracting person to the Government shall be recoverable in the manner provided under section 154 of this Ordinance.

(5)

If any dispute or difference of opinion arises between the person to whom such a notice as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section has been given and the Director as to what is to be considered as trade or stable refuse, a Magistrate’s Court on request made by either party may by order determine whether the subject matter in dispute is or is not trade or stable refuse, as the case may be, and the decision of such Court shall be final.