Regulation or prohibition of certain kinds of cultivation.

Regulation or prohibition of certain kinds of cultivation. The municipal council, on the report of Director of Public Health, the Health Officer, or the local Medical Officer that the cultivation of any description of crop, or the use of any kind of manure, or the irrigation of land in any place within the limits of the municipal area is injurious to the public health may, with the previous sanction of the Government, by public notice, regulate or prohibit the cultivation, use of manure, or irrigation so reported to be injurious: Provided that when such cultivation or irrigation has been practised during the five years preceding the date of such public notice with such continuity as the ordinary course of husbandry admits of, compensation shall be paid from the municipal fund to all persons interested for any damage caused to them by absolute prohibition.