Clause 17

The owner or the owners of any building or part thereof served by a refuse chute and chute chamber shall be responsible for the repair, replacement and maintenance of every such refuse chute and chute chamber.

The Commissioner may, by notice in writing, require the owner or the owners of any such building or part thereof to carry out any repairs, replacement or maintenance to, of or in connection with any such refuse chute or chute chamber as the Commissioner may consider necessary, and every such notice shall be complied with within such period as may be specified in such notice unless extension of the period has been granted by the Commissioner.

Any person who fails to comply with any such notice within the period specified therein, including any extension thereof, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to a further fine not exceeding fifty dollars for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction.

Where any person who has been served with any such notice fails to comply therewith, the Commissioner may, in his discretion, without prejudice to any proceedings under subsection (3) of this section and whether before or after the commencement or conclusion of such proceedings, carry out such works as are specified in such notice and recover from such person the costs and expenses thereof in the manner provided in section 119 of this Act.