Removal of latrine, etc., near any source of water-supply.

1. (1) The Commissioner may, by notice, require any owner or occupier on whose land any drain, privy, latrine, urinal, absorption pit, disposal work, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or refuse for the time being exists within a fifteen meters of any spring, well, tank, reservoir, swimming pool or other source from which water is or may be derived for public use, to remove or close the same within one week from the service of such notice.
2. (2) Whoever, without the permission of the Commissioner, makes or keeps for a longer time than one week after the issue of notice under this section, any drain, privy, latrine, urinal, absorption pit, disposal work, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or refuse, within fifteen metres of any spring, well, tank, reservoir, swimming pool or other source from which water is or may be derived for public use, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, and, when a notice has been issued, with a

further fine, not exceeding five hundred rupees for each day during which the offence is continued after the lapse of the period allowed for removal.

1. (2) Whoever, without the permission of the Commissioner, makes or keeps for a longer time than one week after the issue of notice under this section, any drain, privy, latrine, urinal, absorption pit, disposal work, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or refuse, within fifteen metres of any spring, well, tank, reservoir, swimming pool or other source from which water is or may be derived for public use, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees, and, when a notice has been issued, with a further penalty, not exceeding five thousand rupees for each day during which the offence is continued after the lapse of the period allowed for removal.]