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Section 130, The Rural Area (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1950, or

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(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. Notice of application to Governor in Amendment of schedules. Boundaries. General penalty. Rules. Bye-laws. 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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