27. Inspection of sewerage systems and sanitary facilities

Terms defined in s 2

• Director

  Director

  Defined · s 2

  “Director” means the Director of Water Pollution Control and Drainage appointed under section 3 and includes a Deputy Director and an Assistant Director of Water Pollution Control and Drainage;

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• house

  house

  Defined · s 2

  “house” includes any dwelling-house, warehouse, office, counting-house, shop, school and any other building in which persons are employed;

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• occupier

  occupier

  Defined · s 2

  “occupier”, in relation to any premises, means the person in occupation of any premises or having the charge, management or control thereof and, in relation to any part of any premises different parts of which are occupied by different persons, means the person in occupation or having the charge, management or control of that part;

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• premises

  premises

  Defined · s 2

  “premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;

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• public officer

  public officer

  Defined · s 2

  “public officer” includes any officer of any statutory board or body who is authorised in writing in that behalf by the Director to carry out all or any of the powers conferred on the Director by any of the provisions of this Act;

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• sanitary facilities

  sanitary facilities

  Defined · s 2

  “sanitary facilities” includes toilets, wash basins, bathrooms, sinks and facilities for washing clothes which connect, directly or otherwise, with a private sewage treatment plant or with a public sewerage system;

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• sewerage system

  sewerage system

  Defined · s 2

  “sewerage system” means any sewer, drainline, cesspit, septic tank, treatment plant, privy or any appurtenance thereof;

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