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| (1) Where any premises are within three hundred feet of any public sewer or other fit place into which sewage may lawfully be discharged, the Board may by notice in writing served on the owner of such premises, require such owner within such time as may be specified in the notice, to provide and execute to the satisfaction of the Board, in accordance with any regulations for the time being in force, all or any of the following works that the Board may deem necessary for the effectual sewering of such premises, that is to say;-
| | (a) to provide and construct such channels, sewers, gullies, manholes and appliances as may be necessary for the removal and discharge into such sewer or other fit place of sullage and foul liquids; | | |
| | (b) where a sufficient water supply is available, to provide and construct sufficient and suitable water-closets or additional water-closets and sewers and other appliances in connection therewith, and to convert any earth closet, privy, cesspit, closet or other latrine into a water-closet or abolish any such earth closet, privy, cesspit, closet or other latrine; | | |
| | (c) to reconstruct, take up and remove any existing sewer or appliance (other than any sewer or appliance that has been laid with the sanction of the Board for the sewerage of such premises on the water carriage system) that may be, in the opinion of the Board, unnecessary or unsanitary. | | |
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| (2) Every owner who fails or neglects to comply with the requirements of any notice served on him under subsection (1) within the time specified in the notice, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction after trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts