Regulation or prohibition of certain kinds of cultivation

(1) The council, on the report of the Director of the Medical Services, the municipal health officer of the Director of Agriculture 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 municipality 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 practiced 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.