Procedure when privy is so situated as to be a nuisance

(1) Where it appears to the Director of Health Services that any water-closet, privy or urinal is so situated or constructed that it will injuriously affect the health of any person, or is a nuisance to any person, or that its removal or reconstruction will tend to check or prevent disease, the Director of Health Services shall give notice to the owner thereof to remove or reconstruct the water-closet, privy or urinal within a certain specified time. (2) Any person who refuses or neglects to comply with such notice is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and to a further fine of ten dollars for every day during which the default continues, and the Director of Health Services may if he thinks fit remove the water-closet, privy or urinal and recover the cost of the removal or reconstruction in a summary manner from the owner thereof. 24 Disinterment of Bodies etc.