Cleaning and disinfecting of buildings.

1. (1) Should the owner, part-owner, or occupier of any building suffer the same to be in a filthy or unwholesome state, or in the event of a National or State event or celebration, the Commissioner may, by a notice

require him within twenty-four hours to cleanse the same or otherwise put it in a proper state and thereafter to keep it in a clean and proper state and if it appears to be necessary for sanitary purposes so to do, may, at any time by a notice, direct the occupier of any building to lime-wash or otherwise cleanse the said building inside and outside in the manner and within a period to be specified in the notice.

1. (2) If the Commissioner is of opinion that the cleansing or disinfecting of a building or any part thereof, of any article therein, which is likely to retain infection, will tend to prevent or check the spread of any disease, he may, by a notice require the owner or occupier to cleanse or disinfect the same in the manner and within the period to be specified in the notice.

279. "Building" to include part of a building for purposes of this Chapter.— For the purposes of this Chapter the expression "building" includes a part of a building.