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| (1) No person shall discharge or cause or suffer to be discharged, without the sanction in writing of the Board, any sullage, foul liquids, or faecal matter into any drain or other place which is not suitable or intended to receive such discharge, or into any land or place in such manner as to cause a nuisance, or wilfully discharge or cause to be discharged any rain water into any sewer which is intended to carry foul water. |
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| (2) No person shall discharge or cause or suffer to be discharged into any sewer any hot water, steam, or any liquid which would prejudicially affect the sewer or the flow or the treatment and disposal of sewage or water conveyed therein, or which would from its nature, temperature or otherwise be likely to create a nuisance. |
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| (3) No person shall drop, pass or place, or cause or suffer to be dropped, passed or placed into or in any sewer any brick, stone, earth, ashes or any substance or matter which such sewer is not intended to receive, or which by reason of its amount or nature may be likely to cause such sewer or any other sewer connected therewith to be obstructed, or which may prejudicially affect any such sewer or the flow therein or may be likely to create a nuisance. |
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| (4) Without the written permission of the Board, no person shall in any way alter the fixing, disposition, or position of, or obstruct, remove, stop up, or change any drain, ventilation pipe, closet, or other fitting or appliance connected therewith. |
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| (5) No person shall erect, re-erect, or alter any building in such a manner as to cause any sewer, closet, or appliance provided in or for the benefit of such building or of any other building within the same premises to contravene the provisions of this Law or of any regulations made thereunder. |
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| (6) Every person who contravenes any of the preceding provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction after trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees, and every person who continues such contravention after conviction thereof shall be guilty of a continuing offence and shall on conviction as aforesaid be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five rupees for each day during which the offence is continued. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts