Clause 6

by inserting immediately after the word “ Places” appearing in the cross-heading above section 26 thereof the expression “ and Pollution of Reservoirs, etc”;

by inserting immediately after subsection (1) thereof the following new subsections: —“(1A) Any person who deposits any refuse, rubbish, filth, garbage or any other matter or thing in any stream, river, drain, channel or watercourse or upon the bank of any of the same or in any part of the sea abutting on the foreshore, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and may be arrested without warrant by any police officer or by any public officer authorised in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner and taken before a Magistrate’s Court and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars.(1B) Any person who, in any part of a reservoir or lake used for the storage and supply of water for public consumption or in any part of a stream, river or canal draining into such reservoir or lake —

causes or suffers any animal to enter into any such reservoir, lake, stream, river or canal;

washes or causes to be washed any animal or anything in or near such reservoir, lake, stream, river or canal;

throws or puts any matter or thing into any such reservoir, lake, stream, river or canal;

bathes in or near such reservoir, lake, stream, river or canal; or

does any act whereby water in such reservoir, lake, stream, river or canal is in any way fouled or its quality altered,shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and may be arrested without warrant by any police officer or by any public officer authorised in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner and taken before a Magistrate’s Court and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars.”;

by inserting immediately after subsection (10) thereof the following new subsection: —“(11) The provisions of subsections (1), (1A), (1B), (2) and (4) to (7) of this section shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to any person who contravenes any regulations made under this Act in respect of public cleansing.”; and

by inserting immediately after the expression “subsection (1)” appearing in subsections (2), (5), (7) and (8) thereof the expression “, (1A) or (1B)”.