Regulations

(1) Every Council may make regulations for the better carrying out of the objects and purposes of this Act, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such regulations may provide for– (a) the power of the Council to direct, through a notice published in the Gazette, that any lots or land within the town other than National Land be filled up by the owner or occupier thereof to the prescribed level, and the procedure to follow during the filling up of the land; (b) the power of the Council to recover costs, and the manner and method of the recovery of such costs, including the sale of land and buildings, incurred by the Council under this Act through doing or causing any work to be done on the property of any person in the town where such person has refused, neglected or defaulted or failed to execute such work himself after due and reasonable notice has been served on him by the Council; (c) the authority of the Council to enter upon any land in the town at all reasonable hours for the purpose of carrying out powers and duties conferred or imposed upon it by this Act; (d) the discretionary powers of the Council in dealing with indigent or poor property owners in the town; 47 (e) foreshore improvement and any matters related thereto, where the limits of the town are adjacent to a sea; (f) the erection of fences between adjacent lots and messuages; (g) the prohibition of unauthorized encroachments on the seashore, river banks, and the banks of drains, canals, and creeks in the town; (h) the regulation of any bridges in the town, including the imposition of fees, fines and penalties in respect of the use of same; (i) the landing, storage and removal of inflammable liquids in the town; and (j) any other matter not specifically included in the paragraphs above which may properly be dealt with by way of regulations. (2) Regulations made by the Council under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.