Singapore legislation
Clause 94
Clause 94
A system of night-soil removal may be applied to defined areas, and fees may be charged
(1)
The Director may at any time provide and apply to all or any houses, lands, buildings and tenements within any area or areas defined by him for such purpose, a system for the collection and removal of night-soil and may charge fees for the provision of such system and the supply of such pails and other utensils.
(2)
Such fees shall be payable by the occupiers of the houses, lands, buildings and tenements to which such system is applied, and shall be recoverable in the manner provided under section 154 of this Ordinance.
(3)
At least one month before the application of any system for the collection and removal of night-soil to any area, notice thereof shall be served at every dwelling-house affected thereby within the area either by delivery of such notice to an inmate of such house or by affixing the same to some part of the premises and notice thereof shall be published in the Gazette.
(4)
The notice mentioned in subsection (3) of this section shall be in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil.