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The Statutory Nuisances (Summary Punishment)
Decree, 1968
PURSUANT to the Proclamation entitled
Leone (National Reformation Council) Proclamation, 1967 ",
published in the Gazette on the 25th of March, 1967, the National
Reformation Council hereby makes and issues the following
Decree::
premises " includes
Date of
[28th March, 1968.] Commence
Administration of Sierra
(a) messuages, buildings, lands, easements and heredi
taments on any tenure whether built or not,
whether public or private and whether maintained
or not under statutory authority; and
(6) in respect of any building, the frontage of such
building whether or not such frontage belongs to
the owner of the building which it abutts:
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Short title,
ment.
Interpretation.
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Penalty for
statutory
nuisances,
Act No. 23
of 1960.
Power to
arrest
without
warrant.
Suspension
of sec. 23 A
of Act No.
23 of 1960.
No. 12 Statutory Nuisances (Summary Punishumcnt)
statutory nuisance meanS
(a) any premises in such a state as may be prejudicial
to health or a nuisance:
() any accumulation or deposit which may be
prejudicial to health or a nuisance ;
(c) any dust or cffluvia which may be prejudicial to
the health of or a nuisance to the inhabitants
of the neighbourhood;
(d) any pool, ditch, water course, cistern, sanitary
convenience, cesspool, tank, drain, dungpit or
ashpit in such a state as to be prejudicial to health
Or a nuisance ;
(e) any collection of water or any water vessel found
to contain eggs or larvae of mosquitoes or of
premises on which conditions whether natural or
artificial are likely to cause a propagation or
harbouring of mosquitoes;
) any well, tank, cistern or water bucket used for
the supply of water for domestic purposes which
is so placed or kept with water therein liable to
contamination prejudicial to health;
(2) any chimney not being a chimney of any dwelling
house remiting black smoke in such a quantity as
to be a nuisance ;
(h) any animal or bird kept in such a place or manner
as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
) any refuse found on the frontage of any house.
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