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Section 130, The Rural Area (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1950, or
Status not yet checkedThe Rural Area (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1950, or, Sierra Leone
(1) Any person guilty of an offence against this Ordinancefor which no special penalty is provided shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine of ten pounds or in default of
payment, to imprisonment for two months.
(2) Where any holder of a licence issued under the provision
of this Ordinance is convicted of an offence involving a breach
of the terms or conditions of his licence, the court convicting him
may order that the licence be revoked, or suspended and thereafter the rural district council concerned may refuse the re-issue
or renewal of the licence.
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131. {l) The Governor, after consultation with the Rural
Area Council, may make rules dealing with any of the following
matters-
(a) the establishment, regulation, control, maintenance
and management of markets, slaughter-houses, public washhouses and cemeteries;
(b) the provision, regulation, control, maintenance and
management of water supplies;
(c) the removal and disposal of night soil;
(d) the imposing upon the owners of land of such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent any buildings upon their
land from being, or becoming, a source of danger to surrounding property, whether from fire or from their insecure construction, or dilapidated condition;
(e) traffic in the streets, and the width of streets and other
public places;
(f) the prevention of the obstruction of streets and other
public places by animals and things;
(g) the prohibition, regulation and control of street tradmg;
(h) the construction and position of new buildings, the
demolition, or alteration, of buildings erected contrary to
any rules made under this section, or to any directions given
by any person authorised by any such rules to give directions
with regards to the erection and position of new buildings;
(i) the prohibition of building on such areas as may be
prescribed;
(j) the prohibition of the digging of borrow pits, and the
taking of building material, except from appointed places;
(k) The fees to be charged in connection with any of the
aforesaid matters contained in this section;
(Z) the prevention of contravention of rules made under
this section, and the facilitating of the detection of such
contraventions; and
(m) generally for carrying out the provisions of this
{2) Rules made under this section may apply to the whole,
or any part, of the district and to all or any class or classes of
persons.
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