Disqualification of members of Transport Committee.

(1) The Commissioner may by public notice direct that every furnace employed or to be employed for the purpose of any trade or manufacture shall be so constructed, supplemented or altered as to consume its own smoke as far as may be practicable. (2) No person shall after such direction- (a) use or permit to be used any furnace employed for the purpose of any trade or manufacture, which does not, so far as practicable, consume its own smoke; or (b) so negligently use or permit to be used any such furnace as that it shall not, as far as practicable, consume its own smoke. (3) Nothing in this rule shall be deemed to apply to a locomotive engine used for the purpose of traffic upon any railway or for the repair of streets. (4) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this rule, whether he be the owner or occupier of the premises in which the furnace is situated or the agent or some person employed by the owner or occupier for managing the same, shall be punished with fine which may extend, on a first conviction to one hundred rupees and, on a second or subsequent conviction to a sum amounting to double the amount of the fine imposed on the last preceding conviction.