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Environmental Public Health Act 1987 s 13

s 13 Prohibition on use of nightsoil or human excreta as manure

13.—(1) No land may be manured with nightsoil or human excreta. (2) If any nightsoil or human excreta is found in any place collected in pits or receptacles of any kind that would in the ordinary course be used for preparing the nightsoil or human excreta for purposes of manuring, this is deemed conclusive evidence that the land on which the pits or receptacles are situated or land in the same occupation adjoining or contiguous thereto has been manured with nightsoil or human excreta. (3) The owner and the occupier of any land which is manured with nightsoil or human excreta shall both be guilty of an offence. (4) The Director-General may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of the land to remove the nightsoil or receptacles or to fill up the pits, as the case may be.

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