Ch. 12 No. 4

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE, 1940
CH. 12 NO. 4—1940
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CH. 12 NO. 4—1940
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE, 1940
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Reference to local authority.
PART I
CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF BOARD AND OF

LOCAL AUTHORITIES
4. Central Board of Health constituted.
5. Board to be a body corporate and to have a common seal.
6. Funds.
7. Chairman of Board.
Quorum and casting vote.
Office.
8. Regulations.
9. Medical Inspector and Assistant Medical Inspectors of Health.
10. Secretary and officers of Board.
11. Colony divided into urban, port and rural districts.
12. Local authorities.
13. Appointment of officers by local authority.
Qualifications of Sanitary Inspectors.
14. General powers of supervision and control.
15. Bye-laws.
16. Committees of Board.
17. Enquiries as to public health matters.
18. Power of entry of Medical Inspectors of Health.
19. Local authorities to inform Board of conditions of district.
20. Access to books, etc.
21. Board may exercise powers of local authority.
22. Power to inspect water and sewerage works.
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SECTION
PART II
STREETS
23. Power of local authority to compel owners to pave, etc., streets not
repairable by them.
Plans, etc., of intended work to be kept in Town Engineer’s office.
Local authority may execute works on owner’s default; cost to be a
charge on premises.
Provisional apportionment of expenses to be submitted to the local
authority.
24. Publication of resolution approving provisional apportionment.
Objections to apportionment.
25. Local authority may amend plans, etc., after considering objections.
26. Local authority may proceed to execute works at any time after one
month from the first publication of resolution approving the works
to be executed.
Statement of total cost and final apportionment.
Charge on premises.
Register of charges.
27. Local authority may declare apportioned charge to be payable by
instalments.
28. Local authority may contribute the whole or a portion of the cost of
street works.
29. Incidental works.
30. Commission.
31. Apportionment of expenses.
32. Apportionment of charges on alienation or severance of portion of
premises charged.
33. Power to recover expenses summarily or by action.
34. Power to borrow subject to the Governor’s sanction.
Particulars to be given in application for leave to borrow.
PART III
BUILDING AREAS
35. Power to alter or add to the Fourth Schedule.
36. Approval of local authority required to the laying out of building lots.
SECTION
37. Powers of the local authority in dealing with the application.
Grounds of refusal of application.
Offence.
38. Restriction on sale or letting of building lots until street formed.
39. Applications for outfall to adjoining owner.
Mode of making application.
40. Assent of adjoining owner.
Record of assent.
41. Dissent of adjoining owner.
Result of decision.
42. Procedure.
Application of compensation in case of owners under disability.
43. Magistrate to certify plans, and forward same to the clerk of the Peace.
44. Power of applicant to clear drains.
45. Contribution by adjoining owner who uses drain.
PART IV
BUILDINGS AND STREETS
46. Buildings to be erected in accordance with regulations.
47. Works executed contrary to Ordinance.
48. Filling up of building sites.
49. Power of entry of local authority.
50. Public building: Precautions for safety of the public.
Public buildings not to be used until approved.
Conversion into a public building of building erected for other
purposes.
Local authority may require alterations necessary for safety of the
public.
51. Fencing of lands.
52. Encroachment upon streets.
53. Taking over streets and widening or other improvements effected by
local authorities.
54. Power of local authority to make regulations or bye-laws.
PART V
PRIBIES, DUSTBINS AND DRAINS
55. House to be provided with privy and drains.
56. Main drains.
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57. When privy sufficient.
58. Privies and drains to be properly constructed and maintained.
59. Public privies and dustbins.
60. Local authority may enforce provisions of privy accommodation.
61. Provision for filling up cesspits and wells.
Default in complying with terms of notice.
62. Depositing excreta or defecating except in privy.
63. Bye-laws.
PART VI
SCAVENGING AND CLEANSING

64. Local authority to provide for scavenging and cleansing.
Disposal of refuse.
Application of fund.
Obstruction.
65. Procedure when local authority undertakes work.
66. Bye-laws imposing duty on occupier.
67. Bye-laws.
68. Throwing of offensive matter in public places.

Throwing dead animals in cesspits, etc.
PART VII
NUISANCES
69. Local authority to inspect district for detection of nuisance.
70. What nuisances may be abated summarily.
Saving for accumulation or deposit necessary to business.
71. Information of nuisances to local authority.
72. Notice requiring abatement of nuisance.
Abatement of nuisance in urgent cases.
73. On non-compliance with notice, order to be made.
Nuisance order.
Abatement order.
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Prohibition order.
Closing order.
Cancellation of closing order.
Penalties.
74. Appeal against nuisance order.
Abatement of nuisance pending appeal.
75. When order may be addressed to local authority.
76. Sale of matter or thing removed in abating nuisance.
77. Power of entry.
78. Recovery of costs and expenses.
79. Power of individual to complain to Magistrate of nuisance.
80. Penalty for injuring privy, drain, or dustbin so as to cause nuisance.
PART VIII
OFFENSIVE TRADES
81. Consent of local authority.
Penalty.
82. Bye-laws.
PART IX
SALE OF MILK
83. Bye-laws.
84. Power of entry.
85. Prevention of use of milk from diseased cows.
PART X
UNSOUND FOOD
86. Inspection and destruction of unsound food.
Onus of proof.
Unsound food may be destroyed.
Expenses of destruction.
Penalty.
Liability of vendor.
Previous conviction.
Cancellation of licence.
Removal of unsound food.
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Obstruction of Inspector.
Definition of Inspector.
PART XI
IMPORTATION OF FOOD AND DRINK

87. Importation of food and drink.
PART XII
SALE OF OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL FISH

88. Sale of oysters and other shell fish.
PART XIII
WATER SUPPLY
89. Bye-laws.
90. Polluting water supply.
91. Sole control of specified watercourse.
92. General control.
93. Bye-laws.
94. Obligation on owner of building to maintain tanks.
95. Bye-laws as to tanks.
96. Provision for securing water supply for school-houses, etc.
97. Penalty for not erecting or maintaining tank.
98. Mode of enforcing obligation to erect or maintain tank.
99. Power to local authority to erect and maintain tanks.
100. Power to local authority to use roof of church or public building to
collect water for tank.
101. Bye-laws relating to issue of water.
102. Penalty on persons fouling or wasting water, etc.
PART XIV
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
103. Declaration of infectious disease.
104. Power of Governor in certain cases.
105. Power of Board to deal with dangerous infectious diseases.
SECTION
106. Board to order execution of works in certain cases.
107. Notification of infectious disease.
Meaning of “occupier.”
108. Forms of Certificates.
109. Fees for notification.
Non-disqualification of medical officer by receipt of fees.
110. Power of entry by Health Officer.
111. Removal to isolation hospital.
112. Power to require dairyman to furnish list of sources of supply.
113. Dairymen to notify infectious diseases existing among their servants.
114. Infected person not to carry on occupation.
115. Infected clothes not to be sent to laundry, etc.
116. Filthy and dangerous articles to be purified.
117. Disinfection of premises to check or prevent spread of disease.
118. Child suffering from infectious disease not to attend school.
119. List of scholars to be furnished where scholar in a school is suffering
from an infections disease.
120. Provisions as to library books.
121. Prohibiting conveyance of infected persons in public vehicles.
122. Penalty on failing to provide for disinfection of public vehicle.
123. Driver or owner of vehicle conveying infected person to give notice.
124. Disinfection of public vehicles if used for carrying corpse.
125. Penalty on persons ceasing to occupy houses without previous
disinfection or giving notice to owner, or persons making false
answers.
126. Penalty on letting houses in which infected persons have been lodging.
127. Penalty on persons letting houses making false statements as to
infectious disease.
128. Power of Magistrate to order removal of dead body.
129. Bodies of persons dying of infectious disease in hospital, etc., to be
removed only for burial.
130. Provision of nursing attendance by local authority.
131. Wake not to be held over body of person dying of infectious disease.
132. Publication and effect of regulations.
133. General power to enter and carry out work.
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PART XV
COMMON LODGING-HOUSES AND BARRACK YARDS

134. Return by owner of barrack.
Penalty.
135. Register of common lodging-houses and barrack yards.
136. Evidence.
137. Lodging-house or barrack not to be occupied unless registered.
Death of keeper of lodging-house.
138. Premises to be inspected before registration.
139. Penalty for using unregistered premises.
140. Burden of proof as to persons being of same family.
141. Bye-laws.
142. Default in complying with bye-laws or Ordinance.
Recovery of expenses incurred by local authority.
143. Cancelling registration.
144. Conditions on which barrack yard may be established.
Definition of “reconstruction and rebuilding”.
Penalty.
145. Existing barrack yards.
PART XVI
BAKEHOUSES
146. Interpretation of terms.
147. Application to use place as bakehouse.
148. Painting and washing premises.
149. Conditions of use of bakehouse.
150. Bye-laws.
151. Penalty for using insanitary premises.
152. Sleeping places.
153. Persons suffering from certain diseases.
154. Powers of entry and inspection.
Obstruction.
SECTION
PART XVII
MOSQUITOES
155. Bye-laws for the control of mosquitoes.
PART XVIII
HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, SHOPS WHERE FOOD IS
SOLD BY RETAIL, AND HUCKSTERS
156. Hotels, restaurants and shops.
Duration of registration.
157. Hucksters.
PART XIX
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS
158. Bye-laws.
PART XX
BARBERS’ AND SIMILAR SHOPS
159. Barbers’ and similar shops.
PART XXI
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES
160. Slaughter-houses.
Definition of “animal”.
Bye-laws.
Default of owners in complying with bye-laws.
Default in payment of expenses.
Sale and proceeds thereof.
PART XXII
SALE OF FRESH MEAT IN PROCLAIMED AREAS
161. Control of sale of fresh meat in defined area.
PART XXIII
MISCELLANEOUS
162. Delegation of powers.
163. General rules as to entry.
164. Obstruction.
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Bribery, etc.
165. Obstruction of owner by occupier.
166. Penalties for breaches of bye-laws.
167. Confirmation of regulations and bye-laws.
168. Effect and publication of bye-laws.
169. Recovery of costs and expenses.
170. Recovery of penalties, and procedure.
Penalties.
171. General health rate.
172. Moneys recovered to be carried to separate account.
173. Authentication of notices, etc.
174. Service of notices, etc.
175. Nuisance caused by, or existing on, premises of two or more owners.
176. Proceedings not to abate by reason of death.
177. Owner of premises need not be otherwise designated.
178. Proceedings not removable by certiorari.
179. Right of appeal.
180. Protection of authorities and their servants.
181. Forms.
182. Saving.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
FOURTH SCHEDULE.
CH. 12 NO. 4.—1940

Ordinances.
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE, 1940 Ch. 12. No. 4—
1940.
No. 17—1941.
An Ordinance relating to public health. No. 23—1944.
Commencement.
[1ST JANUARY, 1917]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health Short title.
Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance— Interpretation.
“animal” includes bird;

“barrack” or “barracks” includes any building or collection of
buildings divided into rooms occupied singly or in sets by
persons of the poorer class, and to which there are a common
yard and common conveniences;
“barrack yard” includes a barrack or barracks and every yard
appurtenant to a barrack;
“Board” means the Central Board of Health constituted under this
Ordinance;
“building” includes a chattel house and any structure of
whatsoever material constructed but does not include a
temporary structure of poles, mud and grass or leaves;
“cesspit” means any receptacle for night soil or for offensive
matter below or above the ground;
“common lodging-house” means that class of lodging-house, not
being an hotel, inn, or public house, in which persons of the
poorer class are received for short periods and though
strangers to one another are allowed to inhabit one common
room, and includes, in any case in which only part of a house
is used as a common lodging-house, the part so used of such
house;
“constable” means a member of the Police Force, and includes
city constables or borough constables appointed under the
Ordinances incorporating the City of Port-of-Spain, the
Borough of San Fernando and the Borough of Arima;
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“conveniences” includes water supply, privies, surface and other

drains;
“dairy” includes any farm, farm-house, cowshed, milk store, milk
shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which
milk is kept for the purposes of sale within (unless otherwise
expressed) the district of the local authority;
“dairyman” includes any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk, or occupier
of a dairy within (unless otherwise expressed) the district
of a local authority;
“district” when used alone, means the district of a local authority;
“dwelling-house” means a building used or constructed or adapted
to be used wholly or principally for human habitation;
“habitable room” means a room constructed or adapted to be
inhabited;
“inhabited”, applied to a room, means a room in which some
person passes the night, or which is used as a living room,
including a room with regard to which (until the contrary is
proved) there is a presumption that some person passes the
night therein or that it is used as a living room;
“infectious disease” means diphtheria, membranous croup,
typhoid or enteric fever, cholera, plague, yellow fever,
smallpox, pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculosis other than
pulmonary, pneumonia, chicken pox, and any other disease
which the Governor, by proclamation (a) under section 103,
declares to be an infectious disease within the meaning of
this Ordinance; and
“dangerous infectious disease” means yellow fever, smallpox,
plague, cholera, and any other infectious disease which the
(a) Infectious diseases proclaimed:—

Ophthalmia neonatorum … … … … See R.G. 24.7.1941.
Encephalitis Lethargica … … … … " " 26.9.1929.
Acute poliomyelitis … … … … " " 26.9.1929.
Cerebro spinal fever … … … … " " 26.9.1929.
Acute Ascending myelitis … … … … " " 24.9.1931.
Puerperal pyrexia … … … … " " 31.7.1941.
Governor, by proclamation (b) under section 103, declares

to be a dangerous infectious disease within the meaning of
this Ordinance;
“injurious” includes dangerous;
“local authority” means urban sanitary authority, port sanitary
authority, and rural sanitary authority;
“Medical Officer of Health” includes any person duly authorised
to act temporarily as Medical Officer of Health;
“medical practitioner” means a member of the Medical Board of
Trinidad;
“occupier” means, in the case of a building or part of a building,
a person in occupation of or having the charge, management,
or control of the building or part of the building, and in the
case of a house the whole of which is let out in separate
tenements, or in the case of a lodging-house the whole of
which is let to lodgers, includes the person receiving the rent
payable by the tenants or lodgers, either on his own account
or as the agent of another person, and in the case of a vessel,
means the master or other person in charge thereof;
“offensive” includes noxious;
“offensive trade” means and includes any trade specified in the
First Schedule hereto, or which may from time to time be First Schedule.
added to such Schedule by resolution of the Board published
in the Royal Gazette;
“owner” shall apply to every person in possession of or in receipt
either of the whole or of any part of the rents or profits of
any land or tenement, whether in his own right or as trustee
or personal representative, committee, husband, or guardian
of any other person, or in the occupation of such land or
tenement, other than as a tenant from year to year, or for any
less term, or as a tenant at will;
“premises” includes messuages, buildings, lands, easements, and
hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed,
(b) Dangerous Infectious diseases proclaimed:—
Typhus fever … … … … … … See R.G. 22.1.1931.
Typhoid fever … … … … … … " " 30.7.1937.
Anthrax … … … … … … " " 2.6.1938.
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whether built on or not, whether public or private, and

whether maintained or not under statutory authority, and any
ship, vessel, boat, hulk, barge, tent, van, shed, or similar
structure;
“prescribed area” means the boroughs, towns, villages and areas
Fourth Schedule described in the Fourth Schedule hereto and any area added
thereto in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance;
“privy” includes earth-closet, water-closet, urinal, and every place
for the reception of faecal matter;
“public building” means a building used or constructed or adapted
to be used, either ordinarily or occasionally as a church or
chapel or other place of public worship, or as a hospital,
workhouse, college, school (not being merely a dwelling-
house so used), theatre, public hall, public concert room,
public ballroom, public lecture room, or public exhibition
room, or as a public place of assembly for persons admitted
thereto by tickets or otherwise or used or constructed or
adapted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally for any
public purpose;
Ord. 17—1941. “street” includes any highway, including a highway over any
bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or
passage, whether a thoroughfare or not;
“Town Engineer” means the City Engineer in respect of the City
of Port-of-Spain, and in any borough the Town Engineer of
such borough, and in rural sanitary districts the Director of
Works and Hydraulics.
Reference to 3. All references in this Ordinance to a local authority mean

local authority.
the local authority of the district in which the subject matter of the
reference arises or occurs.
PART I
CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF BOARD AND

OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Central Board of 4. For the purpose of this Ordinance, there is hereby constituted
Health
constituted. an authority to be called the Central Board of Health, to consist of
nine members, to be appointed by the Governor and to hold office
during his pleasure and for not more than two years. The Governor
may remove any such member and appoint any other member in place
of a member so removed, or in place of any member dying, or resigning,
or becoming incapable to act, or being absent from the Colony, or
failing to attend the meetings of the Board for three consecutive months.
5. (1) The Board shall be a body corporate with the name of Board to be a
body corporate
the Central Board of Health, and may sue and be sued under that and to have a
common seal.
name, and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal.
(2) All Courts of law, Judges, Magistrates, Justices, and
persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the common
seal of the Board when affixed to any document, and shall presume
that it was duly affixed.
6. The Governor may, with the consent of the Legislative Funds.

Council, place at the disposal of the Board such funds as may be
necessary for carrying out their duties under this Ordinance.
7. (1) The Director of Medical Services shall be ex officio Chairman of

Board.
Chairman of the Board.
(2) The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the
Board at which he is present. In his absence such member as may
be elected by the majority of members present shall preside.
(3) At any meeting of the Board five members shall form Quorum and
casting vote.
a quorum, and the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
(4) The Board shall have an office in Port-of-Spain. Office.
8. The Board may make regulations as to its own proceedings Regulations.

under this Ordinance, and as to the performance by its officers of their
duties and as to the carrying out of the powers vested in the Board by
this Ordinance or by any bye-laws or regulations made thereunder.
9. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Governor may Medical
Inspector and
appoint a Medical Inspector of Health, who shall be the Medical Assistant
Medical
Officer of the Board, and such Assistant Medical Inspectors of Inspectors of
Health, who shall be Assistant Medical Officers of the Board, as Health.
may be necessary.
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(2) With respect to such officers the following provisions

hall apply:
(a) they shall be members of the Medical Board and
possessors of a Diploma of Public Health,
Sanitary Science, or State Medicine registrable
in the United Kingdom and Eire;
(b) they shall hold office during the Governor’s
pleasure;
(c) they shall have such functions and duties under
this Ordinance as may from time to time be
prescribed by the Board;
(d) they shall have all the functions and duties of
the Medical Officer of Health of a local
authority and may, when authorised by the
Board, exercise such functions and duties in any
part of the Colony.
Secretary and 10. The Governor may, upon the recommendation of the
officers of
Board. Board, appoint a secretary to the Board and such officers and
servants as may be necessary.
Colony divided
into urban, port
11. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Colony shall
and rural be divided into urban sanitary, port sanitary, and rural sanitary
districts.
districts.
(2) The City of Port-of-Spain, the Borough of San
Fernando, the Borough of Arima, and any other borough which
may be constituted after the commencement of this Ordinance,
shall be urban districts.
(3) Port sanitary districts* shall be such areas as may
from time to time be fixed and defined by the Board by resolution
to be approved by the Governor in Council and published in the
Royal Gazette.
* Port sanitary districts defined—

Port-of-Spain—R.G. 10.11.1921.
San Fernando—R.G. 10.9.1942.
(4) Rural districts shall be such parts of the Colony outside

of the urban districts as may from time to time be fixed and defined
by the Board by resolution to be approved by the Governor in
Council and to be published in the Royal Gazette.
(5) Urban districts shall be subject to the jurisdiction of
local authorities invested with the powers in this Ordinance
mentioned.
(6) Port sanitary districts shall be subject to the jurisdiction
of local authorities invested with such of the powers in this
Ordinance mentioned as the Governor in Council shall, by
proclamation, from time to time declare.
(7) Rural districts, or such parts thereof as the Governor
may, by proclamation, declare, shall be subject to the jurisdiction
of local authorities invested with such of the powers in this
Ordinance mentioned as the Governor in Council shall, by
proclamation, from time to time declare.
12. The following shall be the local authorities for the purposes Local
authorities.
of this Ordinance:
(a) in the City of Port-of-Spain, the Port-of-Spain
City Council;
(b) in a borough, the Council of such borough;
(c) in a port sanitary district, such person or body as
may from time to time be appointed by the
Governor;
(d) in the rural districts, such person or body as may
from time to time be appointed by the Governor
or by virtue of the provisions of any Ordinance
for the time being in force.
13. (1) The local authority in an urban sanitary district may, Appointment of
officers by local
and shall if so required by the Board, appoint a Medical Officer of authority.
Health, a secretary, such Sanitary Inspectors and other officers as
may from time to time be necessary.
(2) In port sanitary districts, the local authority may, and
shall if so required by the Board, appoint a Medical Officer of
Health and other officers as may from time to time be necessary.
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(3) In rural sanitary districts, the Medical Officers of

Health and the other officers of the authority shall be appointed by
the Governor: Provided that in default of a special appointment as
Medical Officer of Health to any area, the District Medical Officer
shall be ex officio the Medical Officer of Health.
Qualifications of (4) A Sanitary Inspector in an urban sanitary district shall
Sanitary
Inspectors. be the holder of a certificate of such body as the Board may from
time to time approve: Provided that the Board may, in such cases
as it thinks fit, dispense with such certificates.
General powers 14. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and of the
of supervision
and control. regulations and bye-laws made thereunder, the Board shall have
and exercise general powers of supervision and inspection over
the several local authorities, and may give such directions and make
such orders for the due compliance with their directions as may
from time to time to them seem fit.
(2) The Board, on their being satisfied that any local
authority have made default in doing their duty under any of the
provisions of this Ordinance or in enforcing any of the provisions
of this Ordinance which it is their duty to enforce, may make an
order limiting a time for the performance of their duty in the matter
of such default. If such duty is not performed within the time
limited, the Board may appoint some person to perform such duty
or may institute any proceedings and do any act which the local
authority might have instituted or done for that purpose, and shall
be entitled to recover from the local authority in default all such
expenses in and about the said proceeding or act as the Board incur
and are not recovered from any other person, and have not been
incurred in any unsuccessful proceeding; and in every such case
the Board, by order, shall direct that the expenses of performing
the same, together with reasonable remuneration to the person
appointed to perform or superintend the performance of the same
and amounting to a sum specified in the order, together with the
costs of the proceedings, shall be paid by the authority in default;
and any order made for the payment of such expenses and costs
may be removed into the Supreme Court and be enforced in the
same manner as if the same were an order of such Court.
15. (1) The Board may make bye-laws with respect to all or Bye-laws.
any of the following matters, that is to say:
(a) the definition and regulation of the powers and
duties of local authorities and of the officers
thereof;*
(b) the quorum, proceedings, and place of meeting
of local authorities in the rural districts and of
committees thereof;† and
(c) the regulation of the instruction and examination
of persons desiring to qualify as Sanitary
Inspectors, and the issue of certificates to
successful candidates at such examinations.
(2) The Board may make bye-laws for any purpose for
which a local authority are authorised to make bye-laws under this
Ordinance, to have effect in the district of a local authority.
16. (1) The Board and every local authority may appoint out Committees of
Board.
of their own body such and so many committees either of a general
or special nature, and consisting of such number of persons as
they may think fit, for any of the purposes within their respective
powers under this Ordinance which in the opinion of the Board or
of the local authority respectively would be better regulated or
managed by means of such committees.
(2) The Board and every local authority may make
regulations with respect to the number, chairmanship, quorum, and
powers of any such respective committees.
(3) Every committee of the Board and every committee
of a local authority shall, unless otherwise expressly authorised by
the terms of its reference, report its proceedings to the Board or
local authority.
(4) The Board or the local authority may delegate to any
committee appointed by itself any of the powers or duties vested
in or imposed upon the Board or the local authority by this
Ordinance, and may, if the Board or the local authority think fit,
* For powers in rural sanitary districts—see R.G. 26.1.1933.
†For quorum at meetings—see R.G. 11.2.1937.
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direct that the acts and proceedings of such committee shall not be
required to be submitted to the Board or the local authority for
approval; and in every such case the acts and proceedings done
and taken by the committee shall be done and taken in the name of
the Board or the local authority, and shall be as valid and binding
upon all parties as if such acts and proceedings had been done and
taken by the Board or the local authority.
Enquiries as to 17. The Board may cause to be made such enquiries as they
public health
matters. think fit in relation to any matters concerning the public health, or
in relation to any matters with respect to which their sanction,
approval, or consent is required by this Ordinance, and for that
purpose any person authorised in writing by the Board may at any
reasonable time enter any premises.
Power of entry
of Medical
18. It shall be lawful for the Medical Inspector of Health, and
Inspectors of any Assistant Medical Inspector of Health, with the written
Health.
authority of the Board, to enter any premises at any reasonable
time for the purpose of making enquiries in relation to matters
connected with the public health or with respect to which the
sanction, approval, or consent of the Board is required under this
Ordinance.
Local authorities 19. The local authority in every district shall keep the Board
to inform Board
of conditions of informed, by regular and special reports, of the condition and
district.
progress of all matters concerning the public health in their district.
Access to books, 20. The Board and any of their officers authorised in writing
etc.
shall at all times have access to all reports, books, plans, accounts,
maps, documents, machinery, materials, and all other things
whatsoever belonging to or in the custody of any local authority,
or of any contractor with a local authority, and used in the execution
of the provisions of this Ordinance or in any way in relation thereto.
Board may 21. The Board may, in addition to the powers and authorities
exercise powers
of local conferred on them by this Ordinance, exercise all the powers and
authority.
authorities vested in a local authority by this Ordinance within the
district of such local authority.
22. (1) The Board, whenever they deem it necessary in the Power to inspect
water and
interest of the public health or the health of any persons, may enter sewerage works.
any premises vested in or under the control of any local authority
or of any other person or corporation for the purposes of water
supply or sewerage, and inspect the same and any works thereon
and any other works belonging to such local authority, person, or
corporation or connected therewith and constructed or used for
the said purposes.
(2) Any local authority, person, or corporation as aforesaid
shall instruct their officers and servants to aid and assist the Board
in making and causing to be made the said inspection, and shall
permit the Board to inspect any apparatus and things used in
connection with any works of water supply or sewerage of the
said local authority, person, or corporation, and any records, books,
or plans relating to the said works, or to any works connected
therewith.
(3) Whenever, in the opinion of the Board, any danger to
public health, or to the health of any person, could be removed or
diminished by the exercise by any local authority or by any other
person of their powers under any Ordinance dealing with the water
supply or sewerage, and such local authority or person has made
default in removing or diminishing such danger after reasonable
notice by the Board requiring them so to do, the Board may, at any
time after such default, make a report thereof to the Director of
Works and Hydraulics, and require him to take such steps as may
be necessary for the purpose of removing or diminishing such
danger. And the Director of Works and Hydraulics shall thereupon
be vested with all the powers and authorities of the local authority
or of such person in that behalf, and shall proceed to remove or
diminish such danger accordingly.
PART II
STREETS
23. (1) Where any street within an urban or rural sanitary Power of local
authority to
district (not being a street repairable by the local authority) or any compel owners
part of such street is not laid out, levelled, paved, metalled, drained, to pave, etc.,
streets not
channelled, and made good to the satisfaction of the local authority, repairable by
them.
the local authority may, by notice, addressed to the respective
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owners of the premises fronting, adjoining, or abutting on such

street or part thereof as may require to be levelled, paved, metalled,
drained, channelled, or made good, require them to level, pave,
metal, drain, channel, or make good the same within a time to be
specified in such notice.
Plans, etc., of (2) Before giving such notice, the local authority shall
intended work
to be kept in cause plans and sections of any structural works intended to be
Town
Engineer’s executed under this section, and an estimate of the probable cost
office. thereof, to be made by the Town Engineer; and such plans, sections,
and estimate, when approved by the local authority, shall be
deposited in the office of the Town Engineer, and shall be open at
all reasonable hours for the inspection of all persons interested
therein during the time specified in such notice; and a reference to
such plans and sections in such notice shall be sufficient without
requiring any copy of such plans and sections to be annexed to
such notice.
Local authority
may execute
(3) If such notice is not complied with within the time
works on therein specified, the local authority may, if they think fit, execute
owner’s default;
cost to be a the works mentioned or referred to therein, and the expenses
charge on
premises. incurred by the local authority in so doing, together with interest
thereon at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum from
the date of the completion of the works, shall be a debt due to the
local authority by the owners for the time being of the premises
mentioned or referred to in such notice in such proportion as is
settled by the Town Engineer and approved of by the local authority,
and, until payment thereof to the local authority, shall be a charge
on the respective premises to the extent of the amount apportioned
against each respectively.
Provisional (4) Before commencing any works in such notice
apportionment
of expenses to mentioned or referred to, the local authority shall cause to be
be submitted to
the local prepared by the Town Engineer, as respects each street or part of a
authority. street in which it is intended to execute any such works, a
provisional apportionment of the estimated expenses among the
owners, and such apportionment shall be submitted to the local
authority, who may, by resolution approve the same with or without
modification as they may think fit.
24. (1) The resolution approving such provisional Publication of

resolution
apportionment shall be published once at least in each of two approving
provisional
successive weeks in some local newspaper circulating within the apportionment.
district, and copies of such resolution shall be served on the owners
of the premises shown as liable to be charged in such provisional
apportionment, within ten days after the date of the first publication.
(2) The owner of any premises shown in the provisional Objections to
apportionment.
apportionment as liable to be charged with any part of the expenses
of executing the works may, at any time within one month from
the service of the resolution, by written notice served on the local
authority, object to the proposed works and the provisional
apportionment on any of the following grounds, that is to say:
(a) that the proposed works are insufficient or
unreasonable, stating in what respect such works
are considered by the objector to be insufficient
or unreasonable, or that the estimated expenses
are excessive;
(b) that the provisional apportionment is incorrect in
respect of some matter of fact to be specified in
the objection, or (where the provisional
apportionment is made with regard to other
considerations than frontage as hereinafter
provided) in respect of the degree of benefit to
be derived by any person, or the amount of value
of any work already done by the owner or
occupier of any premises.
25. (1) The local authority shall, at the expiration of the said Local authority
may amend
month, consider any objection made by any owner or owners of plans, etc., after
considering
any premises shown in the provisional apportionment, and may objections.
make such amendments as they shall think fit to the plan,
specification, estimates, and provisional apportionment.
(2) Where, by reason of any amendments made by the
local authority, the amount apportioned upon any premises as
shown in the provisional apportionment served upon the owner or
owners is increased, notice of such increased apportionment shall
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be served upon the owner or owners of the premises affected

thereby, and objections may be made to such increased
apportionment within such time as shall be fixed by resolution of
the local authority and if made within such time shall be dealt with
and determined in like manner as objections to the provisional
apportionment.
Local authority 26. (1) At any time after the expiration of one month from
may proceed to
execute works at the date of the first publication of the resolution approving any
any time after
one month from provisional apportionment, and after any objections have been
the first considered and dealt with by the local authority, the local authority
publication of
resulotion
approving the
may proceed to execute the works shown in the specifications,
works to be plans, sections, estimates, and provisional apportionment, and when
executed.
such works have been completed, and the cost thereof ascertained,
the Town Engineer shall prepare a statement of the total cost of the
works so completed and shall make a final apportionment of such
expenses among the premises liable to be charged under this Part
of this Ordinance.
Statement of (2) Such statement and final apportionment shall be
total cost and
final submitted by the Town Engineer to the local authority, who, by
apportionment.
resolution, may approve the same with or without modification or
addition as they shall think fit; and such statement and
apportionment, when so approved, shall be binding on all parties
and conclusive for all purposes; and notice of such final
apportionment shall be served on the owners affected thereby.
Charge on
premises.
(3) Any premises included in the final apportionment and
all estates and interests therein shall stand and remain charged with
the sums finally apportioned on them respectively as from the date
of the final apportionment with interest at the rate of five per centum
per annum, computed from the completion of the works.
Register of (4) The local authority shall keep a register of the
charges.
charges under this Part of this Ordinance, and of the payments
made in satisfaction thereof, and such register shall be open to
inspection by all persons at all reasonable times on payment of
a sum not exceeding twenty-four cents for each property or name
searched for.
27. The local authority may, by order, declare any expenses Local authority
may declare
apportioned upon any owner of any premises comprised in any apportioned
charge to be
final apportionment to be payable by annual instalments within payable by
such period not exceeding five years, as they may in each case instalments.
think fit, with interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum per
annum, computed as aforesaid until the whole amount be paid.
28. The local authority, if they think fit, may at any time, either Local authority
may contribute
before commencing any works which they are authorised to execute the whole or a
portion of the
under section 26 or after the completion of such works, resolve to cost of street
contribute a portion not exceeding one-half of the expenses of any works.
such works, or resolve, upon motion carried by not less than two-
thirds of the whole number of members of the local authority, to
contribute any greater portion or the whole of such expenses out
of the rates.
29. The local authority may include in any works to be done Incidental
works.
under this Part of this Ordinance with respect to any street or part
of a street, any works which they think necessary for bringing the
street, or any part of a street, as regards drainage, level, or other
matters, into conformity with any other streets, whether repairable
or not by the local authority.
30. The local authority, in any estimate of the expenses of Commission.

works under this Part of this Ordinance, may include a commission
not exceeding five per centum on the estimated actual cost.
31. (1) In a provisional apportionment of expenses of any Apportionment

of expenses.
works carried out by the local authority, the apportionment of
expenses against the premises fronting, adjoining or abutting on
the street or part of a street in respect of which the expenses are to
be incurred shall, unless the local authority otherwise resolve, be
apportioned according to the frontage of the respective premises;
but the local authority may, if they think just, resolve that, in settling
the apportionment, regard shall be had to the following
considerations, that is to say:
(a) the greater or less degree of benefit to be derived
by any premises from such works;
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by the owners or occupiers of any such premises.
(2) They may also, if they think just, include any premises
which do not front, adjoin, or abut on the street or part of a street,
but access to which is obtained from the street through a Court,
passage, or otherwise, and which in their opinion will be benefited
by the works, and may fix the sum or proportion of the expenses
to be charged against any such premises accordingly.
Apportionment 32. Where any premises are charged with a portion of the
of charges on
alienation or expenses of any work carried out by the local authority under the
severance of
portion of foregoing sections, and (a) the owner of such premises has sold or
premises
charged.
agreed to sell a portion of such premises, or (b) such premises
have been or are about to be divided into separate premises, the
local authority may, on the application of the owner and upon such
terms and conditions as they shall think fit, apportion the sum
charged on the original premises in such proportions as to them
shall seem just. Every apportionment made under this section shall
be binding on all parties and shall be conclusive for all purposes.
Power to 33. The local authority, if they think fit, may (in addition and
recover
expenses without prejudice to any other remedy) recover as a simple contract
summarily or by
action. debt in any Court of competent jurisdiction from the owner for the
time being of any premises in respect of which any sum is due and
on which such sum is charged for the expenses of any works
executed under this Part of this Ordinance, the whole or any portion
of such sum, including any interest chargeable on such sum under
this Ordinance.
Power to borrow 34. (1) The local authority may, with the sanction of the
subject to the
Governor’s Governor in Council, borrow such sum or sums of money as they
sanction.
shall deem necessary for the execution of any permanent works,
or of any works which they are authorised to execute under this
Part of this Ordinance.
Particulars to be (2) Every application for the sanction of the Governor in
given in
application for Council to the raising of any loan shall state the amount proposed
leave to borrow.
to be borrowed, the rate of interest proposed to be paid in respect
of such loan, the purposes to which the proposed loan is intended
to be applied, the period within which it is proposed that such loan

shall be repaid, the method of repayment of such loan, whether by
equal annual instalments of principal or of principal and interest
combined on the annuity system, or otherwise, the security to be
given, if any, for the repayment of the proposed loan, or, where no
security is intended to be given, the provision intended to be made
for the repayment of the loan and interest thereon from the ordinary
revenue of the local authority.
PART III
BUILDING AREAS
35. The Governor in Council may by proclamation amend the Power to alter or
add to the
Fourth Schedule hereto by adding thereto any towns, villages or Fourth
Schedule.
other areas to be named and defined by boundaries in such
proclamation and may from time to time by proclamation alter,
amend or revoke any of the boundaries set out in the said Schedule
or in any such proclamation as aforesaid.
36. (1) No owner of any land wheresoever situate shall utilise Approval of
local authority
such land for the erection of buildings or lay out such land into required to the
laying out of
building lots, without having obtained the previous approval in building lots.
writing of the local authority.
(2) The application for the approval of the local authority
shall be in writing and shall be accompanied by a plan in duplicate
of the buildings to be erected and in the case of building lots, of
the land, prepared, if so required by the local authority, by a
Licensed Land Surveyor from an actual survey on the ground. Such
plan shall show—
(a) contours of the land at such vertical intervals as
the local authority may require;
(b) the design or layout of the land showing the
dimensions of the streets and building lots;
(c) the line of buildings;
(d) the course of the proposed drainage;
(e) the nature of the soil, aspect, direction of
prevailing wind and other physical features or
conditions;
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(f) the proposed water supply to the building lots;

(g) such other particulars either on the plan itself or
in a separate written statement as may be required
by the local authority.
(3) In the case of land situate elsewhere than within a
prescribed area the local authority may accept a sketch plan giving
such details and information as may be required by the local
authority.
Powers of the 37. (1) After consideration of the application and plan, the
local authority
in dealing with local authority may refuse the application or approve of the same
the application.
either unconditionally or subject to such modifications or alterations
to the plan as the local authority may think necessary or desirable.
Approval of the application and plan shall be evidenced by the
signature of the local authority on the plan, one copy of which
shall be returned to the applicant.
Grounds of
refusal of
(2) The refusal of the local authority to the approval of
application. any application and plan submitted under section 36 or any
modifications or alterations made thereto shall only be permissible
on the following grounds:
(a) inadequacy of the proposed water supply;
(b) inadequacy of the measures taken by the owner
for filling in or levelling the area for the general
drainage of the area;
(c) inadequacy of the proposed drainage of the
building or building lots;
(d) inadequacy of the size of the building lots and
the dimensions of the streets;
(e) the absence of provision for adequate open spaces;
(f) any other ground which in the opinion of the local
authority would be detrimental to public health
or public convenience.
Offence. (3) Any person erecting buildings or laying out land into
building lots except in accordance with a plan approved and signed
by the local authority shall be guilty of an offence against this
Ordinance.
38. No building lot in any prescribed area shall be sold, let or Restriction on
sale or letting of
used until the streets abutting on such building lot have been building lots
until street
cleared, formed, round ridged and drained by the owner. formed.
39. (1) Any person interested in land, including an owner or Applications for
outfall to
occupier or any encumbrancer thereof who desires to drain the adjoining owner.
same, or any local authority who think it expedient to drain any
lands within their district whether vested in them or not, and in
order thereto deem it necessary that new drains should be opened
through lands belonging to another owner, or that existing drains
in lands belonging to another owner should be cleansed, widened,
straightened, or otherwise improved, may apply to such owner,
who is herein referred to as the adjoining owner, for leave to make
such drains or improvements in drains through or on the lands of
such owner.
(2) Any such application as aforesaid shall be by notice Mode of making
application.
in writing under the hand of the applicant or the local authority, as
the case may be, and shall be served on the owner, and also on the
occupier, if the owner be not the occupier, in manner in which
notices are required to be served on owners and occupiers under
this Ordinance. The notice shall state the nature of such drains or
improvements in drains, be accompanied by a plan, on which the
length, width, and depth of the proposed drains or improvements
in drains shall be delineated, and the approval in writing of the
local authority of the scheme of drainage where such local authority
are not the applicants, and shall further state the compensation, if
any, which the applicant proposes to pay.
40. (1) The adjoining owner may, by deed under his hand, Assent of
adjoining owner.
assent to such application, upon such terms and on payment of
such compensation as he may require, and any assent so given
shall be binding on all parties having any estate or interest in the
land, subject to the following provisions:
(a) that any arrangement entered into by any
adjoining owner under any disability or
incapacity, or not having power to assent to such
application except under the provisions of this
Part of this Ordinance, shall not be valid unless
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the same is approved by two valuers, one of whom

is to be nominated by the applicant, and the other
by the adjoining owner; and each of such valuers,
if they approve of the arrangement, shall annex
to the document containing the same a declaration
to that effect subscribed by them;
(b) that any compensation to be paid by the applicant
to the adjoining owner, in cases where such owner
is under any disability or incapacity, or has not
power to assent to such application, except under
the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance, shall
be dealt with in the manner in which the
compensation awarded to parties under disability
or incapacity is payable under the Land
Acquisition Ordinance;
(c) that any occupier or person other than the owner
interested in the lands shall be entitled to
compensation for any injury he may sustain by
the making of the proposed drains or
improvements in drains, so that the claim therefor
be made within twelve months after completion
of such drains or improvements in drains, the
amount of such compensation to be determined
in case of dispute, in the manner in which disputed
compensation for land is required to be
determined by the said Land Acquisition
Ordinance.
Record of (2) The applicant shall forward to the Clerk of the Peace
assent.
of the district in which the land is situate the deed containing the
assent of the adjoining owner to the proposed drains or
improvements in drains, who shall keep the same in his office as a
record of the proceedings between the parties.
Dissent of 41. (1) The adjoining owner shall be deemed to have dissented
adjoining owner.
from the application made to him, if he fails to express his assent
thereto within one month after the service of the notice of
application on him; and in the event of such dissent there shall be

decided by the Magistrate of the district the questions following,
that is to say:
(a) whether the proposed drains or improvements in
drains will cause any injury to the adjoining
owner, or to the occupier or other person
interested in the lands;
(b) whether any injury that may be caused is or is
not of a nature to admit of being fully
compensated for by money.
(2) The result of any such decision shall be as follows, Result of
decision.
that is to say:
(a) if the decision is that no injury will be caused to
the adjoining owner, occupier, or other parties
interested in the lands, the applicant may proceed
forthwith to make the proposed drains or
improvements in drains;
(b) if the decision is that injury will be caused to the
adjoining owner, occupier, or other parties
interested in the lands, but that such injury is of a
nature to admit of being fully compensated, by
money, the Magistrate shall proceed to assess such
compensation, and to apportion the same amongst
the parties in his judgment entitled thereto; and
on payment of the sum so assessed the applicant
may proceed to make the proposed drains or
improvements in drains;
(c) if the decision is that injury will be caused to
the adjoining owner, occupier, or other parties
interested in the lands, and that such injury is
not of a nature to admit of being fully
compensated by money, the applicant shall not
be entitled to make the proposed drains or
improvements in drains.
42. (1) Where any application is made under the last Procedure.
preceding section the Magistrate may summon the parties to appear
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before him at a time and place to be named in the summons and

upon the appearance of such parties, or in the absence of any of
them, upon proof of the due service of the summons, it shall be
lawful for such Magistrate to hear and determine the question and
amount of the compensation, and for that purpose to examine such
parties or any of them and their witnesses upon oath, and the costs
of every such enquiry shall be at his discretion and he shall settle
the amount thereof. Such costs shall be recoverable in manner
provided by sections 43 and 44 of the Petty Civil Courts Ordinance.
Application of (2) Where the compensation assessed by the Magistrate
compensation in
case of owners under this section is payable to any owner or other person who is
under disability.
under any disability or incapacity, such compensation shall be
dealt with in the manner in which the compensation awarded to
parties under disability or incapacity is payable under the Land
Acquisition Ordinance.
Magistrate to 43. The Magistrate, in the event of his finding that no injury
certify plans,
and forward will be caused to the adjoining owner or of his assessing
same to the
clerk of the compensation, shall certify under his hand the correctness of the
Peace. plan of the scheme of drainage as submitted or modified by the
parties with the consent of the local authority, and shall cause the
same to be forwarded to the Clerk of the Peace of the district
wherein the land is situate, who shall keep the same in his office as
a record of the proceedings between the parties.
Power of 44. After drains have been opened or improvements in drains

applicant to
clear drains. made in pursuance of this Part of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for
the applicant, his executors, administrators or assigns, or for the local
authority, as the case may be, and their successors in office for ever
thereafter, from time to time as it becomes necessary, to enter upon
the lands through which such drains have been opened or
improvements made, for the purpose of clearing out, scouring, and
otherwise maintaining the same in a due state of efficiency, and if
such drains or improvements in drains are not kept so cleared out,
scoured, and maintained in a due state of efficiency, the owner or
occupier for the time being of the lands through or on which such
drains or improvements in drains are made may clear out, scour, and
otherwise maintain the same in a due state of efficiency and recover
the expenses incurred in such clearing out, scouring, or maintenance

as a simple contract debt in any Court of competent jurisdiction from
the applicant, his executors, administrators or assigns.
45. Whenever the adjoining owner shall use such drains or Contribution by
adjoining owner
improvements in drains for his own purposes or for the benefit of who uses drain.
any buildings erected thereon, such adjoining owner shall
contribute such proportion of the expenses of clearing out and
maintaining such drains as may be agreed upon between himself
and the applicant, or in default of such agreement as may be fixed
by the local authority: Provided that in any case where the local
authority is directly interested, an appeal shall lie from their decision
to the Magistrate of the district; and the procedure relating to
appeals from the assessment to house and land rates in the urban
and rural districts respectively shall govern such appeals, and the
applicant may recover from the adjoining owner, his executors,
administrators, or assigns, such proportion of the expenses as a
simple contract debt in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
PART IV
BUILDINGS AND STREETS

46. (1) It shall not be lawful in any prescribed area to make an Buildings to be
erected in
addition or alteration to any building (except that of necessary repair accordance with
regulations.
not affecting the construction of any external or party-wall) or to
erect a new building otherwise than in accordance with the provisions
of this Ordinance and any regulations or bye-laws made thereunder.
(2) For the purposes of this Part of this Ordinance and
of any regulations or bye-laws made thereunder each of the
following operations shall be deemed to be the erection of a new
building, namely:
(a) the re-erection, wholly or partially, of any building
of which an outer wall is pulled down or burnt
down to or within ten feet of the surface of the
ground adjoining the lowest storey of the building,
and of any frame building so far pulled down or
burnt down as to leave only the framework of the
lowest storey;
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(b) the conversion into a dwelling-house of any

building not originally constructed for human
habitation, or the conversion into more than one
dwelling-house of a building originally
constructed as one dwelling-house only;
(c) the reconversion into a dwelling-house of any
building which has been discontinued as or
appropriated for any purpose other than that of a
dwelling-house;
(d) the making of any addition to an existing building
by raising any part of the roof, by altering a wall,
or making any projection from the building, but
so far as regards the addition only; and
(e) the roofing or covering over of an open space
between walls or buildings.
Works executed 47. (1) In any case where a new building is erected or any
contrary to
Ordinance. work done in or upon any building in contravention of any of the
Ord.23—1944. provisions of subsection (1) of the last preceding section, the
local authority may, by notice in writing served upon or delivered
to the owner of such building, require such owner, on or before a
day to be specified in such notice, by a statement in writing under
his hand and addressed to and duly served upon the local authority,
to show cause why such building or such work shall not be
removed, altered or pulled down, or require such owner, on such
day and at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice,
to attend personally or by an agent duly authorised in writing in
that behalf before the local authority and show sufficient cause
why such building or such work should not be removed, altered
or pulled down.
(2) If such owner shall fail to show sufficient cause why
such building or such work should not be removed, altered or pulled
down, the local authority may remove, alter or pull down the same,
and the expenses incurred by the local authority in removing,
altering or puffing down such building or such work shall be repaid
by such owner, and shall be a debt due to the local authority by the
owner, and, until repayment, shall be a charge on the premises on
which such building shall have been commenced or completed, or
such work executed, in contravention of the provisions aforesaid.
(3) The power conferred by this section shall be in

addition and without prejudice to any other remedy provided by
this Part of this Ordinance or by any regulations made thereunder
for the recovery of any penalties for breach of any of the provisions
contained in this Part of this Ordinance or any regulations made
thereunder.
(4) The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this
section shall not have effect with respect to any building erected
or any work done in or upon any building when such erection or
such work, as the case may be, has been completed prior to the
14th of September, 1944.
48. (1) Except with the sanction of the local authority, it shall Filling up of
building sites.
not be lawful to fill up or to raise the level of any land to be used as Ch. 12.
No. 4—1940,
a building site with refuse matter containing or impregnated with s.47.
faecal, animal, or vegetable matter.
(2) It shall not be lawful to erect any new building on any
ground which has been filled up with any such refuse matter or
upon which any such refuse matter has been deposited, unless and
until such refuse matter shall have been properly removed by
excavation or otherwise, or shall have been rendered or become
innocuous to the satisfaction of the local authority.
(3) No site which is below the level of the adjacent streets
or land and actually or liable to be in a swampy condition shall be
built upon until the same shall have been filled in, levelled, and
drained to the satisfaction of the local authority.
49. The local authority may, at all reasonable times enter and Power of entry
of local
inspect any premises for the purpose of carrying out the provisions authority.
Ch. 12.
of this Ordinance and any regulations or bye-laws made thereunder. No.4—
1940,s.48.
50. (1) Every person who shall erect a public building shall Public building:
Precautions for
cause the same to be erected and maintained with such precautions safety of the
public.
for the safety of the public as, having regard to the special purpose Ch. 12.
for which such building is intended to be used, shall be prescribed No.4—1940, ss.
49 and 50.
or approved by the local authority.
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Public buildings (2) No public building shall be used as such unless and
not to be used
until approved. until the local authority by notice in writing addressed to the owner
thereof, shall have declared their approval of the construction
thereof and of its suitability for the purpose for which it is proposed
to be used.
(3) After the local authority shall have declared their
approval, no work affecting or likely to affect such building, shall
be done to, in or on such building without the approval of the
local authority.
Conversion into (4) Where it is proposed to convert or alter any building,
a public
building of erected for a purpose other than a public purpose, into a public
building erected
for other building, such conversion or alteration shall be carried out, and
purposes. such building shall be constructed, in such manner as shall be
approved by the local authority, and the provisions of this Ordinance
and of any regulations or bye-laws made thereunder shall apply to
such alteration or construction, as if it were the construction of a
public building.
Local authority (5) Whenever it appears to the local authority that any
may require
alterations place used as a public building is not so constructed or maintained
necessary for
safety of the as to afford necessary protection to all persons who may resort
public. thereto, the local authority may by notice in writing require the
owner of such place, within a reasonable time to be specified in
such notice, to make such alterations therein or thereto as shall be
approved by the local authority.
(6) The local authority may, in lieu of such notice, or
concurrently therewith, or at any time thereafter, and without
prejudice to the recovery of penalties for the non-compliance
therewith, by notice in writing served upon the owner of such place,
require such owner on or before a date to be specified in such
notice, by statement in writing under his hand addressed to the
local authority, to show cause why such building should not cease
to be used as a public building, or require such person, on such
date and at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice,
to attend personally or by an agent duly authorised in writing in
that behalf before the local authority, and show sufficient cause
why such building should not cease to be used as a public building.
(7) If such owner shall fail to show sufficient cause why

such building should not cease to be used as a public building, the
local authority may, by order addressed to the owner thereof,
prohibit the use of such place as a public building.
51. In any prescribed area the local authority may, by written Fencing of
lands.
notice to the owner of any land adjoining any street or road, require
such owner to fence such land to its satisfaction, and, where the
fence of any such land is allowed to be or to remain out of repair,
to require such fence to be repaired to its satisfaction.
52. (1) In any prescribed area any person who, except in Encroachment
upon streets.
accordance with any regulations or bye-laws that may be
prescribed, encroaches on any street or on any part thereof by—
(a) erecting thereon any structure of any kind
whatsoever, or
(b) erecting, planting, or digging thereon, any fence,
hedge,, ditch, arch, bridge, or drain, or
(c) in any other manner whatsoever,
shall be liable to the punishment in this Ordinance provided for
acting in contravention of the provisions thereof.
(2) It shall be lawful for the local authority to remove
every such obstruction or to cause such structure, fence, hedge,
ditch, arch, bridge, drain, or other encroachment to be taken down
or filled up or opened at the expense of the party offending.
53. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Part II of this Taking over

streets and
Ordinance it shall be lawful for a local authority, with the approval widening or
other
or by direction of the Board, to take over in any prescribed area improvements
any existing street which is not repairable by the local authority, effected by local
authorities.
for the purpose of widening or effecting improvements to the
drainage or surface of such street and for such purposes to acquire
compulsorily in accordance with the provisions of the Land
Acquisition Ordinance any land or buildings abutting on such street.
(2) Section 50 of the Land Acquisition Ordinance shall
apply to a local authority and the Chairman thereof in the same
manner, mutatis mutandis, as it applies to a Local Road Board and
a Road Officer.
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(3) For the purpose of defraying all or any part of the

expenses incurred or paid or to be incurred or paid by a local
authority in exercising the powers contained in subsection (1) of
this section, the local authority may, with the approval or by
direction of the Board, levy a rate within the prescribed area or
any part thereof affected by such improvements, to be called the
“Streets Improvement Rate,” in the same manner as is provided
for the levying of a General Health Rate by section 171 of this
Ordinance.
Power of local 54. (1) The local authority may make, alter and repeal
authority to
make regulations or bye-laws for the better carrying out of any of the
regulations or matters contained in Parts III and IV of this Ordinance and, in
bye-laws.
particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
power, such regulations or bye-laws may provide for all or any of
the following matters:
(a) the access to areas to be used as building lots;
(b) the level, width, material, construction,
maintenance and drainage of streets to be formed
in any areas;
(c) the keeping of drains clean and in repair;
(d) the drainage of the subsoil of sites;
(e) the height of the ground floor of a building above
ground;
(f) the ventilation of and sufficiency of the space
about buildings to secure a free circulation of air;
(g) the regulation of eaves and gutterings;
(h) the paving of yards and open spaces for the
purposes of health;
(i) the structure of foundation walls and roofs of new
buildings for the purposes of health and safety;
(j) the percentage of the area of building lots that
may be covered by buildings;
(k) the minimum dimensions of building lots;
(l) the line of buildings;
(m) the forms of application for approval of the local
authority, the plans to be accompanied therewith
and the details to be shown on such plans;
(n) the erection and construction of public buildings;

(o) the sanitary arrangements and convenience of any
public or other buildings;
(p) the regulation and control of open spaces.
(2) Regulations or bye-laws made by a local authority
with respect to paragraphs (f), (g) and (h) of subsection (1) of
this section may be made to apply to buildings and houses already
in existence as well as to buildings and houses to be erected in
the future.
(3) Any such regulations or bye-laws may be applied
generally or to specified areas or prescribed areas or to specified
parts of prescribed areas.
PART V
PRIVIES, DUSTBINS AND DRAIN’S

55. (1) Every dwelling-house shall be provided with a House to be
provided with
sufficient privy and with proper drains for the efficient carrying privy and drains.
off of storm and slop water to the satisfaction of the local authority.
(2) No dwelling-house shall be erected or rebuilt, nor shall
any building be occupied as, nor be converted by alteration into, a
dwelling-house, unless the same is provided with a sufficient privy
and proper drains for the efficient carrying off of storm and slop
water to the satisfaction of the local authority.
(3) Every person who does or causes to be done anything
in contravention of this section shall, for every such offence, be
liable to a fine of ninety-six dollars.
56. It shall be the duty of the local authority to provide and Main drains.
maintain the necessary street drains for the carrying off of all storm
and (except within a sewered district) slop water flowing from
buildings and the lands occupied therewith.
57. A privy shall not be deemed to be sufficient within the When privy
sufficient.
meaning of this Ordinance unless it is of such class or description,
and is furnished with such covering, fittings, and connections, as
the local authority, by bye-law, may prescribe, or as, in the absence
of bye-laws, the Board may direct.
L.R.O.
Privies and 58. It shall be the duty of the local authority to provide to the
drains to be
properly satisfaction of the Board that all privies and drains within their
constructed and district are so constructed and maintained as not to be or likely to
maintained.
become a nuisance or injurious to health.
Public privies 59. The local authority may, and shall when so directed by the
and dustbins.
Board, provide and maintain in proper and convenient situations
in their district sufficient privies and dustbins for the public use.
Local authority 60. (1) If a house within the district of a local authority
may enforce
provisions of appears to such authority by the report of their Medical Officer of
privy Health or Sanitary Inspector to be without a sufficient privy, the
accommodation.
local authority shall, by written notice, require the owner or
occupier of the house, within a reasonable time therein specified,
to provide a sufficient privy.
(2) If such notice is not complied with, the local authority
may, at the expiration of the time specified in the notice, do the
work thereby required to be done, and may recover as a simple
contract debt in any Court of competent jurisdiction from the owner
the expenses incurred by them in so doing: Provided that where a
privy has been and is used in common by the inmates of two or
more houses, or if in the opinion of the local authority a privy may
be so used, they need not require a separate privy to be provided
for each house.
(3) Every building used as a workshop or factory, or where
persons are employed or intended to be employed in any trade or
business shall be provided with sufficient and suitable
accommodation in the way of sanitary conveniences having regard
to the number of persons employed in or in attendance at such
building, and also where persons of both sexes are employed or
intended to be employed, or in attendance, with proper separate
accommodation for persons of each sex.
(4) If it shall appear to a local authority by the report of
their Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Inspector that the
provisions of the foregoing subsection are not complied with in
the case of any building, the local authority may, if they think fit,
require the owner or occupier of any such building to make such
alterations and additions therein as may be required to give such
sufficient, suitable and proper accommodation as aforesaid.
(5) Any person who neglects or refuses to comply with

any such notice shall be liable for each default to a fine of one
hundred dollars and to a further fine of ten dollars for every day
during which the default is continued.
(6) The expression “sanitary conveniences” in this section
shall include urinals, waterclosets, earthclosets, privies, ashpits,
and any similar convenience.
61. (1) If it shall appear to the local authority by the report of Provision for
filling up
their Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Inspector that any cesspits and
cesspit or other receptacle used or formerly used as a receptacle wells.
for excreta or other offensive matter or for the whole or any part of
the drainage of a house, or that any well or disused well belonging
to any such house or part of a house is prejudicial to health, or
otherwise objectionable for sanitary reasons, and that it is desirable
that the same should be filled up or removed or so altered as to
remove any such objection as aforesaid, the local authority may, if
they think fit, by notice in writing, require the owner or occupier
of such house or part of a house, within a reasonable time to be
specified in the notice, to cause such cesspit, receptacle, or well to
be filled up or removed, and any drain communicating therewith
to be effectually disconnected, destroyed, or taken away, or to cause
such cesspit, receptacle, or well to be so altered as to remove any
such objection as aforesaid.
(2) Where it appears that any such cesspit, receptacle, or
well is used in common by the occupiers of two or more houses,
or parts of houses, the notice for filling up or removal of any such
cesspit, receptacle, or well may be served on any one or more of
the owners or occupiers of such houses, and it shall not be necessary
to serve such notice on all such owners or occupiers.
(3) If default is made in complying with the requisitions Default in
complying with
of a notice under this section, the local authority may themselves terms of notice.
carry out the requisitions, and may recover the expenses incurred
by them in so doing from the owners or occupiers in default as a
simple contract debt in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
62. Any person who, within a quarter of a mile of any occupied Depositing
excreta or
building in any district, deposits human excreta or defecates defecating
anywhere except in a properly constructed privy shall be liable to except in privy.
a fine of twenty-four dollars.
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Bye-laws. 63. A local authority may make bye-laws for the whole or
any part of their district with respect to privies, drains, and
ashpits, and the proper accessories thereof in connection with
buildings, whether constructed before or after the
commencement of this Ordinance.
PART VI
SCAVENGING AND CLEANSING

Local authority 64. (1) A local authority may, and shall when and as the Board
to provide for
scavenging and may direct, undertake or contract for the efficient execution of the
cleansing. following services within their district, or any specified part of
their district, namely—
(a) the removal of house refuse and other rubbish,
from any premises;
(b) the supply or sale of disinfectants for use in privies
or in any specified class or description of privy;
(c) the cleansing and disinfection of buildings or parts
thereof, the cleansing and disinfection of privies,
dustbins, and drains, and the collection, removal,
and disposal of night soil, upon such charges as
the local authority may from time to time fix;
(d) the sweeping, cleansing, and watering of streets;
(e) the provision and maintenance in sanitary
condition of suitable places, buildings, and
appliances for the deposit or destruction of refuse,
rubbish, and night soil.
Disposal of (2) All refuse, rubbish, night soil, and waste matter
refuse.
collected by the local authority or their contractor in the execution
of any of the services in this section mentioned shall be destroyed,
sold, or otherwise disposed of in such manner as, with the approval
of the Board, the local authority think fit.
Application of
fund.
(3) All moneys derived therefrom shall be carried to the
fund applicable to such services, or, if there is no such fund, then
shall form part of the funds of the local authority applicable for
the general purposes of this Ordinance.
Obstruction. (4) Every person shall be liable to a fine of twentyfour
dollars if he in any way obstructs or hinders the local authority of
their contractor in the execution of any services under this section.
65. In very case where the local authority have themselves Procedure when
local authority
undertaken or contracted for the execution of any of the services undertakes
referred to in paragraphs (a) and (c) of subsection (1) of section 64, work.
the following provisions shall apply:

(a) the service shall be executed promptly, efficiently,
and at regular and prescribed intervals to the
satisfaction of the Board;
(b) if, in respect of any premises, default is made in
executing any such service efficiently, or at the
prescribed intervals, and by reason thereof refuse,
rubbish, or night soil has accumulated or any
privy, dustbin, or drain is offensive or is not
cleansed, the occupier of the house or an officer
of the Board may serve notice thereof on the local
authority;
(c) if the notice is served as aforesaid, the local authority
shall forthwith inform the contractor (if any);
(d) if such notice is served on the local authority, then,
unless within forty-eight hours after the notice
has been served the requisite service is done and
the cause of the complaint is removed, the person
in default shall be liable to a fine of five dollars
for each day thereafter until the requisite service
is efficiently done and the cause of complaint is
removed: Provided that for the purposes of this
paragraph, the person in default means the
contractor if the service is being executed by
contract, or the officer in charge of the service if
it is being executed by the local authority.
66. Where the local authority do not themselves undertake or Bye-laws

imposing duty
contract for the service of cleansing privies, dustbins, or drains on occupier.
belonging to any premises, removing house refuse, rubbish, or night
soil from any premises, or cleansing footways or pavements
adjacent to any premises and drains under footways or pavements,
they may, and shall whenever the Board so recommend, make bye-
laws imposing on the owner or occupier of such premises the duty
of effectually doing such service in such manner and at such regular
intervals as are prescribed by such bye-laws.
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Bye-laws. 67. The local authority may, and shall if directed by the Board,
make bye-laws for the whole or any part of their district as to all or
any of the following matters, that is to say:
(a) preventing the accumulation of dust, filth, ashes
and refuse on premises, and the duties of owners
or occupiers with regard thereto;
(b) for prescribing the size, material, and make of
dustbins or movable receptacles for refuse to be
provided by owners or occupiers of premises, and
the places where, and the times at which, such
dustbins or receptacles shall be deposited for
facilitating the removal of their contents by the
local authorities;
(c) the duties of owners or occupiers in connection
with house refuse, so as to facilitate the removal
of it by the scavengers;
(d) regulating the keeping of swine in rural districts;
(e) regulating or preventing the keeping of live or
dead animals where the keeping of them (although
not prohibited by law) is or is likely to be a
nuisance or injurious to health;
(f) regulating the situation, construction, drainage,
and use of stables, and disposal of manure;
(g) for prescribing the times for the removal or
carriage through the streets of any faecal or
offensive matter or liquid, whether such matter
or liquid shall be in course of removal or carriage
from within or without or through their district;
(h) for providing that the vessel, receptacle, cart, or
carriage used therefor shall be properly
constructed and covered so as to prevent the
escape of any such matter or liquid;
(i) for compelling the cleansing of any place whereon
such matter or liquid shall have been dropped or
spilt in such removal or carriage;
(j) for prescribing that no person shall engage in the
business of carrying or removing faecal or
offensive matter or liquid except with a permit
from the local authority;
(k) for prescribing that the owner or occupier of any

premises from which faecal or offensive matter
or liquid is at any time carried or removed by a
person who has not a permit from the local
authority shall be guilty of an offence.
68. (1) No offensive matter, whether animal or vegetable, Throwing of

offensive matter
shall be thrown or placed or allowed to flow or fall on any street or in public places.
other public place, or in any river, drain, or watercourse.
“Offensive matter” in this section shall include dead animals,
offal, swill, brine, drainings from salt fish, and garbage.
(2) No dead animal, offal, garbage, or putrid flesh or fish Throwing dead
animals in
shall be thrown into any privy or cesspit. cesspits, etc.
(3) Any person contravening the provisions of this section

shall be liable to a fine of five dollars.
PART VII
NUISANCES
69. It shall be the duty of every local authority to cause to be Local authority
to inspect
made from time to time inspection of their district with a view to district for
detection of
ascertain what nuisances exist calling for abatement under the nuisance.
powers of this Part of this Ordinance, and to enforce the provisions
of this Part of this Ordinance for the purpose of abating the same,
and otherwise to put in force the powers vested in them relating to
public health, so as to secure the proper sanitary condition of all
premises within their district.
70. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance— What nuisances

may be abated
(a) any premises,or part thereof, of such construction summarily.
or in such decayed, ruinous, filthy or
unwholesome state or condition as to be injurious
or likely to be injurious to safety or health,
(b) any street, ditch, sink, cistern, pool, borrow-pit,
watercourse, drain, gutter, privy, dustbin, or
manure pit so foul or in such a state or so situated
as to be a nuisance or injurious to health,
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(c) any stable, cowshed, pig-sty, or other building in

which any animal or animals are kept in such a
manner or in such numbers as to be a nuisance or
injurious to health,
(d) any animal so kept as to be a nuisance or injurious
to health,
(e) any accumulation or deposit of any material,
wherever situated, which is a nuisance or injurious
to health,
(f) any work, manufactory, trade, or business
injurious to the health of the neighbourhood or
so conducted as to be a nuisance or injurious to
health,
(g) any house or part of a house or other structure
used for human habitation so overcrowded as to
be injurious to the health of the inmates, whether
or not members of the same family,
(h) any schoolhouse, workroom, shop, office, factory,
workshop, warehouse, or other place of
business—
(i) so unclean as to be a nuisance or injurious
to health, or
(ii) not so ventilated as to render harmless, as
far as practicable, all gases, vapours, dust,
or other impurities generated in the course
of the work carried on therein that are a
nuisance or injurious to health, or
(iii) so overcrowded as to be injurious to the
health of the persons therein employed, or
(iv) not provided with sufficient privy
accommodation,
(i) any offensive trade or business so carried on as
to be injurious to health or unnecessarily offensive
to the public,
(j) the drainage, refuse, or washings of any town,
village, or building falling into any harbour, river,
watercourse, ravine, pond or ditch or on to any
foreshore so as to be a nuisance or injurious to health,
(k) any churchyard, cemetery, or place of sepulture

so situated or so crowded or otherwise so
conducted as to be a nuisance or injurious to
health,
(l) any well or water supply injurious to health,
(m) any chimney emitting black smoke in such
quantity as to be a nuisance,
shall be deemed to be nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily
in manner provided by this Ordinance.
(2) Provided that—
(a) any accumulation or deposit necessary for the Saving for
accumulation or
effectual carrying on of any business or deposit
necessary to
manufacture shall not be punishable as a nuisance business.
under this section, if it is proved to the satisfaction
of the Court that the accumulation or deposit has
not been kept longer than is necessary for the
purposes of the business or manufacture, and that
the best available means have been taken for
preventing injury to health thereby; and
(b) in considering whether any dwelling-house or part
of a dwelling-house which is used also as a
factory, workshop, or workplace, or whether any
factory, workshop, or workplace used also as a
dwelling-house, is a nuisance by reason of
overcrowding, the Court shall have regard to the
circumstances of such other user.
71. Information of a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily Information of

nuisances to
under this Part of this Ordinance in the district of a local authority local authority.
may be given to that authority by any person, and it shall be the
duty of every officer of that authority to give that information.
72. (1) On the receipt of any information respecting the Notice requiring
abatement of
existence of a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under nuisance.
this Part of this Ordinance, the local authority shall, if satisfied of
the existence of a nuisance, serve a notice on the person by whose Second
Schedule.
act, default, or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues, or, if Form A.
L.R.O.
such person cannot be found, on the occupier or owner of the

premises on which the nuisance arises, requiring him to abate the
same within the time specified in the notice, and to execute such
works and do such things as may be necessary for that purpose,
and, if the local authority think it desirable (but not otherwise),
specifying any works to be executed.
(2) The local authority may also, by the same or another
notice served on such occupier, owner, or person, require him to
do what is necessary for preventing the recurrence of the nuisance,
and, if they think it desirable, specify any works to be executed for
that purpose, and may serve that notice notwithstanding that the
nuisance may for the time have been abated, if the local authority
consider that it is likely to recur on the same premises.
(3) Provided that—
(a) where the nuisance arises from any want or defect
of a structural character, or where the premises
are unoccupied, or consist of a barrack yard, the
notice shall be served on the owner;
(b) where the person causing the nuisance cannot be
found, and it is clear that the nuisance does not
arise or continue by the act, default, or sufferance
of the occupier or owner of the premises, the local
authority may themselves abate the same and may
do what is necessary to prevent the recurrence
thereof;
(c) where the Medical Officer of Health certifies to
the local authority that any house or part of a
house in their district is so overcrowded as to be
injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or
not members of the same family, the local
authority shall take proceedings under this section
for the abatement of such nuisance.
(4) Where a notice has been served on a person under
this section, and either—
(a) the nuisance arose from the wilful act or default
of the said person, or
(b) such person makes default in complying with any

of the requisitions of the notice within the time
specified,
he shall be liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars for each offence,
whether any such nuisance order as in this Part of this Ordinance
mentioned is or is not made upon him.
(5) Provided that in the event of immediate action Abatement of
nuisance in
becoming, in the opinion of the chairman of the local authority, urgent cases.
necessary to deal with a nuisance the abatement of which is certified
by the Medical Officer of Health to be urgent, the chairman of the
local authority may take all such steps and do all such things as the
local authority is empowered to do for the purpose of abating a
nuisance under this Part of this Ordinance.
73. (1) If either— On non-

compliance with
(a) the person on whom a notice to abate a nuisance notice, order to
be made.
has been served as aforesaid makes default in
complying with any of the requisitions thereof
within the time specified, or
(b) the nuisance, although abated since the service
of the notice,is, in the opinion of the local
authority, likely to recur on the same premises,
the local authority shall make a complaint before the Magistrate 2nd Schedule.
Form B.
of the district, and such Magistrate may make on such person a Form C.
summary order (in this Part of this Ordinance referred to as a
nuisance order).
(2) A nuisance order may be an abatement order, a Nuisance
order.
prohibition order, or a closing order, or a combination of such orders.
(3) An abatement order may require a person to comply Abatement
order.
with all or any of the requisitions of the notice, or otherwise to
abate the nuisance within a time specified in the order.
(4) A prohibition order may prohibit the recurrence of Prohibition
order.
a nuisance.
(5) An abatement order or prohibition order shall, if the
person on whom the order is made so requires, or the Magistrate
considers it desirable, specify the works to be executed by such person
for the purpose of abating or preventing the recurrence of the nuisance.
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Closing order. (6) A closing order may prohibit a dwelling-house from

being used for human habitation.
(7) A closing order shall only be made where it is proved
to the satisfaction of the Magistrate that by reason of a nuisance a
dwelling-house is unfit for human habitation, and if such proof is
given the Magistrate shall make a closing order, and may impose a
fine of ninety-six dollars.
Cancellation of (8) The Magistrate, when satisfied that the dwelling-house
closing order.
has been rendered fit for human habitation, may declare that he is
so satisfied and cancel the closing order.
Penalties. (9) If a person fails to comply with the provisions of a
nuisance order with respect to the abatement of a nuisance, he
shall, unless he satisfies the Magistrate that he has used all due
diligence to carry out such order, be liable to a fine of five dollars
a day during his default; and if a person knowingly and wilfully
acts contrary to a prohibition or closing order, he shall be liable to
a fine of ten dollars a day during such contrary action; moreover,
the local authority may enter the premises to which a nuisance
order relates, and abate or remove the nuisance, and do whatever
may be necessary in execution of such order.
Appeal against 74. (1) Where a person appeals to the Supreme Court against
nuisance order.
a nuisance order, no liability to a penalty shall arise, nor, save as in
this section mentioned, shall any proceedings be taken or work
done under such order until after the determination or abandonment
of such appeal.
(2) There shall be no appeal to the Supreme Court against
a nuisance order, unless it is or includes a prohibition or closing
order, or requires the execution of structural works.
(3) Where a nuisance order is made and a person does
not comply with it and appeals against it to the Supreme Court,
and such appeal is dismissed or is abandoned, the appellant shall
be liable to a fine of five dollars a day during the non-compliance
with the order, unless he satisfies the Court before which
proceedings are taken for imposing a penalty that there was
substantial ground for the appeal, and that the appeal was not
brought merely for the purpose of delay; and where the appeal is
heard by the Supreme Court, that Court may, on dismissing the
appeal, impose the penalty as if the Court were that of the
Magistrate.
(4) Where a nuisance order is made on any person and Abatement of
nuisance
appealed against, and the Court which made the order is of opinion pending appeal.
that the continuance of the nuisance will be injurious to health,
and that the immediate abatement thereof will not cause any injury
which cannot be compensated by damages, the court may authorise
the local authority immediately to abate the nuisance; but the local
authority, if they do so, and the appeal is successful, shall pay the
cost of such abatement and the damages (if any) sustained by the
said person by reason of such abatement; but if the appeal is
dismissed or abandoned, the local authority may recover the cost
of the abatement from the said person.
75. Where it appears to the satisfaction of the Magistrate that When order may
be addressed to
the person by whose act, default, or sufferance a nuisance liable to local authority.
be dealt with summarily under this Part of this Ordinance arises Second
Schedule.
or the owner or occupier of the premises is not known or cannot be Form D.
found, then the nuisance order may be addressed to, and if so
addressed shall be executed by, the local authority.
76. Any matter or thing removed by the local authority in Sale of matter or
thing removed
abating, or doing what is necessary to prevent the recurrence of, a in abating
nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under this Part of this nuisance.
Ordinance may be sold by public auction, or, if the authority think

the circumstances of the case require it, may be sold otherwise, or
be disposed of without sale; and the money arising from the sale
may be retained by the local authority, and applied in payment of
the expenses incurred by them with reference to such nuisance,
and the surplus (if any) shall be paid, on demand, to the owner of
such matter or thing.
77. The local authority shall have the right to enter any Power of entry.
premises—
(a) for the purpose of examining as to the existence
thereon of any nuisance liable to be dealt with
summarily under this Part of this Ordinance, at
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any hour by day, or in the case of a nuisance

arising in respect of any business, then at any time
when that business is in progress or is usually
carried on; and
(b) where, under this Part of this Ordinance, a
nuisance has been ascertained to exist, or a
nuisance order has been made, then at any such
hour as aforesaid, until the nuisance is abated, or
the works ordered to be done are completed, or
the closing order is cancelled, as the case may
be; and
(c) where a nuisance order has not been complied
with or has been infringed, at all reasonable hours,
including all hours during which business therein
is in progress or is usually carried on, for the
purpose of executing the order.
Recovery of 78. All costs and expenses incurred in serving notice, making
costs and
expenses. a complaint, or obtaining a nuisance order, or in carrying the order
into effect, or in abating or suppressing any nuisance, shall be
deemed to be money paid for the use and at the request of the
person on whom the order is made, or if the order is made on the
local authority, or if no order is made but the nuisance is proved to
have existed when the iotice was served or the complaint made,
then of the person by whose act, default, or sufferance the nuisance
was caused; and in case of nuisances caused by the act or default
of the owner of premises, such costs and expenses may be recovered
from any person who is for the time being owner of such premises
in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
Power of
individual to
79. (1) Complaint of the existence of a nuisance liable to be
complain to dealt with summarily under this Part of this Ordinance on any
Magistrate of
nuisance. premises within the district of any local authority may be made by
any person, and thereupon the like proceedings shall be had, with
the like incidents and consequences as to making of orders,
penalties for disobedience of orders, appeal, and otherwise, as in
the case of a like complaint by the local authority.
(2) Provided that the Magistrate may, if he thinks fit—

(a) adjourn the hearing or further hearing of the
complaint for the purpose of having an
examination of the premises where the nuisance
is alleged to exist, and may authorise the entry
into such premises of any constable or other
person for that purpose; and
(b) authorise any constable or other person to do all
necessary acts for executing an order made on a
complaint under this section, and to recover the
expenses from the person on whom the order is
made in a summary manner.
(3) Any constable or other person authorised under this
section shall have the like powers, and be subject to the like
restrictions, as if he were an officer of the local authority authorised
under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Ordinance to
enter any premises and do any acts thereon.
80. If a person causes any drain, privy, or dustbin to be a Penalty for

injuring privy,
nuisance or injurious to health by wilfully destroying or damaging drain, or dustbin
so as to cause
the same, or any water supply, apparatus, pipe, or work connected nuisance.
therewith, or by otherwise wilfully stopping up or wilfully
interfering with or improperly using the same, or any such water
supply, apparatus, pipe, or work, he shall be liable to a fine of
twenty-four dollars.
PART VIII
OFFENSIVE TRADES
81. (1) It shall not be lawful to establish or carry on an Consent of local

authority.
offensive trade anywhere within the district of a local authority
unless with the consent in writing of such local authority.
(2) Every person who establishes or carries on an offensive Penalty.
trade in contravention of this section shall be liable to a fine of two
hundred and forty dollars, and to a fine of twenty-four dollars for
every day on which he carries it on, whether there has or has not
been a conviction in respect of the establishing of the trade.
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Bye-laws. 82. With respect to offensive trades heretofore or hereafter

lawfully established within their district, the local authority may
make bye-laws as to the conditions subject to which and the places
in which such trades may be carried on, in order to prevent or
diminish the offensiveness of the trades and to safeguard the
public health.
PART IX
SALE OF MILK
Bye-laws. 83. (1) Every local authority may make bye-laws for the
following purposes or any of them, that is to say:
(a) for the registration of all persons keeping cows;
(b) for the licensing of all places in which cows are
kept for the sale of milk, and for preventing the
keeping of tuberculous cows in such places;
(c) for the licensing of dairymen and the fixing of
the fees payable in respect of such licences;
(d) for the inspection by the local authority, or any
person authorised by the local authority, of cattle
in dairies, and for prescribing and regulating the
cleansing and drainage of dairies and other places
in the occupation of persons carrying on the trade
of dairymen, and of any pasturage used for the
grazing of cows kept for the sale of milk;
(e) for the situation, construction, water supply, and
regulation of dairies and cowsheds;
(f) for prescribing places for the milking of cows;
(g) for the precautions to be taken for protecting milk
against infection or contamination;
(h) for securing the cleanliness of vessels used for
keeping milk for sale and of the milk therein;
(i) for the issue of licences to persons selling milk to
carry on such business and to sell, hawk for sale,
or deliver milk, and for the issue of badges for
persons actually selling or carrying milk on behalf
of such licensed persons;
(j) to compel all persons selling or delivering milk

to carry and exhibit, when lawfully thereto
required, badges denoting the issue of such
licences, to be supplied as in paragraph (i)
provided;
(k) to charge fees for the licences and badges
mentioned in paragraphs (i) and (j) hereof, such
fees to be paid to the local authority: Provided
that paragraphs (i) and (j) shall only apply to such
part or parts of a district as the local authority
may, by bye-laws, define;
(l) for the prohibition of the sale, within their district,
of milk supplied from cattle, dairies, or other
places in the occupation of persons carrying on
the trade of dairymen with respect to which cattle,
dairies, or places the bye-laws made under this
section are not observed, whether such cattle,
dairies, or places are kept or situated within or
without their district, or in the case of cattle,
dairies, or places kept or situated without their
district, with respect to which such persons do
not allow inspection thereof by the local authority;
(m) for the cancellation of licences for breaches
of bye-laws.
(2) Every such licence shall be under the hand of a duly
authorised officer of the local authority, and shall, in the case of a
Municipal Corporation, be under the hand of the Town Clerk, or
other officer of the Corporation duly authorised by the Council in
that behalf.
(3) Every licence granted under this Part of this Ordinance
shall, unless cancelled under the provisions hereof, be and continue
in force from the date of its issue until the 31st of December next
thereafter.
84. The local authority may at any time enter upon any Power of entry.
premises—
(a) for the purpose of inspecting cattle, and of
inspecting the cleansing and drainage of all dairies
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and other places in the occupation of persons

carrying on the trade of dairymen, and otherwise
for making such inspection as may be necessary
to give effect to this Part of this Ordinance; and
(b) to enforce obedience to all bye-laws made under
the last preceding section.
Prevention of 85. (1) If at any time disease exists among the cattle in a dairy
use of milk from
diseased cows. or cowshed, or other building or place, the milk of a diseased cow
therein—
(a) shall not be mixed with other milk; and
(b) shall not be sold or used for human food; and
(c) shall not be sold or used for food of swine or other
animals, unless and until it has been boiled.
(2) Any person contravening, or counselling or procuring
the contravention of, any of the provisions of this section shall be
liable for a first offence to a fine of forty-eight dollars, and for a
second or subsequent offence to a fine of ninety-six dollars, or to
imprisonment for three months.
(3) For the purposes of this section, “disease” includes
cattle plague or rinderpest, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, anthrax,
splenic fever, foot and mouth disease, rabies, tuberculosis, cowpox,
trypanosomiasis, strongylosis, Texas fever, and mange, and any
other disease specified by the Governor in Council by proclamation
in the Royal Gazette.
PART X
UNSOUND FOOD
Inspection and 86. (1) An Inspector may, at all reasonable times, enter any
destruction of
unsound food. premises and inspect and examine, and may in any street or other
public place inspect and examine—
(a) any article, whether solid or liquid, intended for
the food of man and sold or exposed for sale or
deposited in any place, or in course of
transmission for the purpose of sale or of
preparation for sale; or
(b) any live animal or dead animal or part thereof

intended for the food of man which is sold or
exposed for sale, or deposited in any place, or is
in course of transmission for the purpose of sale
or of preparation for sale.
(2) The proof that any article or live animal or dead animal Onus of proof.
or part thereof was not sold or exposed or deposited or in course of
transmission for any purpose in the last preceding subsection
mentioned, or was not intended for the food of man, shall rest
upon the person alleging the same.
(3) If any article or live animal or dead animal or part Unsound food
may be
thereof as aforesaid appears to the Inspector to be diseased or destroyed.
unsound or unwholesome or unfit for the food of man, he may
seize and carry away the same himself or by his assistants, and
may cause the same to be destroyed or may order the same or any
part thereof to be kept apart and dealt with according to his
directions: Provided that if the Inspector be not a medical
practitioner or veterinary surgeon, he shall have no power to order
the destruction of any such article or live animal or dead animal or
part thereof.
(4) The expenses incurred in destroying any such article Expenses of
destruction.
or live animal or dead animal or part thereof as aforesaid, or in
having the same kept apart and dealt with according to the directions
of the Inspector, shall be a debt due by the owner and may be
recovered on the information of the Inspector in a summary manner
from the owner or from the person who is in possession of such
article or live animal or dead animal or part thereof.
(5) If it appears to a Magistrate that any article or live Penalty.
animal or dead animal or part thereof which has been seized or is
liable to be seized under this section is diseased or unsound or
unwholesome or unfit for the food of man, the person to whom the
same belongs or did belong at the time of sale or exposure for sale,
or deposit or transmission for the purpose of sale or of preparation
for sale, or in whose possession or on whose premises the same
was found, shall be liable to a fine of two hundred and forty dollars
for every such article or live animal or dead animal or part thereof,
or if the article consists of fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, or flour,
for every parcel thereof.
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Liability of (6) Where it is shown that any article or live animal or

vendor.
dead animal or part thereof liable to be seized under this section,
and found in the possession of any person, was purchased by him
or consigned to him from another person for the food of man, and
when so purchased or consigned was in such a condition as to be
liable to be seized under this section, the person who so sold the
same shall be liable to the penalty above mentioned, unless he
proves that, at the time he sold or consigned the said article or live
animal or dead animal or part thereof, he did not know and had no
reason to believe that it was in such a condition.
Previous (7) Where a person convicted of an offence under this section

conviction.
has been within twelve months previously convicted of an offence
under this section, the Court may, if it thinks fit, and finds that he
knowingly and wilfully committed such offences, order that a notice
of the facts be affixed, in such form and manner and for such period
not exceeding twenty-one days as the Court may order, to any
business premises or to any stall in any market occupied by that
person, and that the person do pay the cost of such affixing; and if
any person obstructs the affixing of such notice, or removes,
defaces, or conceals the notice affixed during the said period, or
assaults, obstructs, or resists any person duly authorised to affix
such notice, he shall be liable to a fine of twenty-four dollars.
Cancellation of (8) If any person licensed to sell meat within the limits of the
licence.
City of Port-of-Spain or of any borough, or any butcher or seller
of meat in any public market, or any person licensed under
Part XXII of this Ordinance, is convicted of an offence under this
section, the Court convicting him may cancel his licence for the
sale of meat, or suspend the same for such time as the Court may
deem fit, and, in the case of butchers and sellers of meat in the
public markets, may order that such butcher or seller of meat shall
be disqualified from selling meat in any public market.
If any person after cancellation of his licence or
disqualification as last aforesaid shall sell or keep or expose for
sale any meat, such person shall be liable to imprisonment for
six months.
(9) Where a person has in his possession any article which Removal of
unsound food.
is diseased or unsound or unwholesome or unfit for the food of
man, he may, by written notice to the local authority, specifying
such article and containing a sufficient identification of it, request
its removal, and the local authority shall cause it to be removed;
and such person shall pay to the local authority a reasonable sum
for such removal.
(10) Any person who refuses or fails to allow an Inspector Obstruction of
Inspector.
to enter any premises or place for the purpose of making an
inspection or examination under this section shall be liable to a
fine of forty-eight dollars; and the provisions of sections 163 and
164 shall apply to an Inspector as if he had been expressly named
in those sections.
(11) In this section, “ Inspector” includes a Medical Definition of
Inspector.
Officer of Health and a Sanitary Inspector appointed under this
Ordinance, and an Inspector of Meat appointed under the provisions
of any Ordinance relating to a Municipal Corporation authorising
such appointment.
PART XI
IMPORTATION OF FOOD AND DRINK

87. (1) The Board may make regulations authorising Importation of
food and drink.
measures to be taken for the prevention of danger arising to public
health from the importation into the Colony of articles of food and
drink (other than drugs or water) intended for sale for human
consumption.
(2) There may be attached to the breach of any such
regulations a fine not exceeding two hundred and forty dollars.
(3) For the purposes of regulations made under this
section, articles commnoly used for the food and drink of man
shall be deemed to be intended for sale for human consumption
unless the contrary is proved.
(4) No compensation shall be payable to any person in
respect of any article of food or drink destroyed under any
regulation made under this section, nor shall any person acting
under the authority of any such regulation be liable to any action
at law in respect of such destruction.
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PART XII
SALE OF OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL FISH

Sale of oysters 88. (1) No person shall, except with the licence of the local
and other shell
fish. authority, sell oysters and other shell fish in any urban district.
(2) The local authority may make bye-laws with regard
to the issue of such licences, with regard to the places from which
oysters or other shell fish may be collected, and with regard to the
transport, storage and sale (whether wholesale or retail) thereof.
(3) Any person contravening the provisions of the
section or of any bye-law made thereunder shall be liable to a
fine of forty-eight dollars.
PART XIII
WATER SUPPLY
Bye-laws. 89. (1) A local authority may make bye-laws for securing the
cleanliness and freedom from pollution of wells and tanks for
storing water used or likely to be used by man for drinking or
domestic purposes or for manufacturing drink for the use of man;
and in such bye-laws may prescribe the means by which such wells
and tanks shall be made and kept clean and free from pollution.
(2) In this Part of this Ordinance, the expression “tank”
includes any receptacle, whether movable or fixed, and whether
made of wood, metal, stone, brick, concrete, or other material.
Polluting water
supply.
90. Every person who in any way—
(a) defiles or pollutes any well, watercourse, stream,
lake, pond, or reservoir forming part of the water
supply of the district of a local authority, or
(b) permits or suffers drainage or refuse from his land
or premises to flow into or be deposited in such
well, watercourse, stream, lake, pond, or reservoir,
shall be liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars, and in case of a
continuing offence to a fine of ten dollars for each day during which
the offence continues.
91. In any case where, on the report of the Board, the Governor Sole control of
specified
thinks it expedient in the interests of the public health to do so, he watercourse.
may, for the purposes of this Part of this Ordinance, by notice in
the Royal Gazette, place any specified well, watercourse, stream,
lake, pond, or reservoir, or any specified portion thereof, under the
sole control of any one specified local authority, notwithstanding
that it may not be within the district of such local authority or on
land belonging to such local authority; and every such notice shall,
until revoked by the Governor, have full effect.
92. Subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, the General control.
local authority shall, for all the purposes of this Part of this
Ordinance, be deemed to have control of all wells, watercourses,
streams, lakes, ponds, and reservoirs within their district.
93. Any local authority having control of any well, Bye-laws.

watercourse, stream, lake, pond, or reservoir may make bye-laws
to enforce the cleansing and prevent the polluting or defiling of
such wells, watercourses, streams, lakes, ponds, and reservoirs,
and to require the discontinuance of any conditions (including the
residence of persons) in the vicinity of such well, watercourse,
stream, lake, pond, or reservoir, likely to expose the same to risk
of pollution or defilement.
94. (1) A local authority may, and shall when required by the Obligation on
owner of
Board, give notice that, with respect to a particular area to be named building to
in such notice, the owner of every building not being on a plantation, maintain tanks.
and the owner of every plantation, shall erect and maintain in good
order, tanks for the storage of rain water, and capable of storing
the quantity of water prescribed under the provisions of this Part
of this Ordinance, and in this Part of this Ordinance referred to as
the prescribed quantity, unless he can satisfy the local authority
that there is a sufficient supply of wholesome fresh water available
for the premises.
(2) The Board may direct what shall be the prescribed
quantity, and, when made, may alter or revoke any such direction.
(3) Until the Board otherwise directs, the quantities specified
in the Tables contained in the Third Schedule hereto shall be the Third Schedule.
prescribed quantities for the buildings and plantations therein described.
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Bye-laws as to 95. A local authority may make bye-laws—

tanks.
(a) for the cleansing of tanks;
(b) for prescribing the size, and method of connecting
to the roofs, of the gutters and pipes of such tanks,
the apparatus for drawing off water, and the
appliances for discharging the overflow.
Provision for 96. (1) It shall not be lawful, except with the permission of
securing
water supply for the Board, for any person having the control of any school-house,
school-houses,
etc. or of any building built for the purposes of public entertainment,
to permit the same to be used, unless—
(a) a sufficient tank has been erected to the
satisfaction of the local authority; and
(b) such tank has been connected with such school-
house or building by proper gutters and pipes, of
sufficient size to receive all the rain falling on
the roof and to convey the same to such tank.
(2) Every person who acts in contravention of this section
shall be liable to a fine of ninety-six dollars.
(3) This section shall not apply to any school-house or
building built for the purposes of public entertainment which is
situated in a district in which there is an adequate pipe-borne
water supply .
Penalty for not 97. (1) Every owner of any building or plantation required
erecting or
maintaining under this Part of this Ordinance to erect and maintain a tank, who
tank.
fails to erect a tank capable of storing the prescribed quantity of
water, or who fails to maintain such tank in good order, shall be
liable to a fine of two cents for each gallon of the prescribed quantity
of water for which he was bound to provide storage, and to a further
fine of five dollars for each day during which such failure may
continue after conviction.
(2) In any proceeding against any person under this
section, the burden of proving that a tank capable of storing the
prescribed quantity has been erected, or that such tank is maintained
in good order, shall be on the person proceeded against.
98. (1) When there has been any failure to erect or maintain Mode of
enforcing
any tank required under this Part of this Ordinance to be erected or obligation to
erect or
maintained, and whether proceedings have been or are to be maintain tank.
instituted for recovery of any penalty for such failure, the local
authority may, by a written notice, require the owner, within a
reasonable time therein specified, to erect a tank capable of storing
the prescribed quantity, or to do such work as may be necessary to
put the tank in good order.
(2) If such notice is not complied with, the local authority
may, at the expiration of the time specified in the notice, erect
such tank, or do the work specified in such notice, and may recover
the expenses incurred by them in so doing as a simple contract
debt in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
99. Every local authority may, and shall when required by the Power to local
authority to
Board, construct and maintain such tanks and reservoirs for the erect and
maintain tanks.
storage of rain or fresh water as may be necessary, and may sell
the water so stored or permit the free use thereof.
100. (1) Any local authority may, for the purpose of collecting Power to local
authority to use
and storing rain water, attach gutters to the roof of any church, roof of church
or public
chapel or school, or any building used for public entertainment, building to
within their district, and convey the water collected thereby by collect water for
tank.
pipes to tanks or reservoirs maintained by them, unless there is a
tank connected with such church, chapel, school, or building of
sufficient size to contain five gallons of water for every square
foot of the horizontal area covered by the roof thereof.
(2) The officers of every local authority may, at all
reasonable times, enter on the land whereon is such church, chapel,
school, or building, or on the land used therewith, and may erect
tanks thereon, and may so attach such gutters and lay down such
pipes over, or on, or under such land, and may, at all reasonable
times, enter on such land and examine and repair such tanks, gutters,
and pipes: Provided always that, before proceeding to erect any
tank on any land belonging to or under the control of the persons
having the control of such church, chapel, school, or building, the
local authority shall apply to a Magistrate for permission to do so;
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and the Magistrate, after having afforded such persons full

opportunity of being heard, is hereby required to grant such
permission, unless it is proved to his satisfaction that the granting
of such permission would cause such an injury to the persons
owning or having the control of such land as could not be
compensated by money; and if the Magistrate considers that a
substantial injury would be occasioned to such persons by the
erection of such tank, but that the same could be compensated in
money, he shall determine what sum ought to be paid by the local
authority to such persons, and thereupon shall grant permission to
the local authority to erect suck tank ,on condition that such sum is
so paid, and the local authority shall not commence to erect such
tank until such sum is so paid. No permission shall be required to
attach such gutters or lay down such pipes:
Provided that no tank shall be placed by any local authority
under the provisions of this section on any land belonging to or
under the control of the persons having the control of such church,
chapel, school, or building within one hundred and fifty feet of
such church, chapel, school or building, except with the consent
of such persons, and that the local authority shall be bound to place
their pipe underground if such persons so require.
(3) Every person who obstructs any officer entering
as aforesaid for any such purpose shall be liable to a fine of
Bye-laws 101. Every local authority may make bye-laws for regulating
relating to issue
of water. the issue of water from any tank or reservoir under their charge or
on a plantation.
Penalty on 102. Every person who—

persons fouling
or wasting (a) wilfully fouls any water in a tank or reservoir, or
water, etc.
(b) wilfully wastes any water stored in a tank or
reservoir, or
(c) wilfully damages any tank or reservoir or any
guttering, pipe, cover, platform, roof, tap, or pump
connected therewith,
shall be liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars; and shall, in addition,

be ordered by the Magistrate to pay to the person aggrieved such
sum, not exceeding ninety-six dollars, by way of compensation
for so fouling or wasting such water as the Magistrate may consider
adequate, and, in the case of damage, to pay to such person the
cost of repairing the same, and such cost shall be ascertained and
determined by the Magistrate; and all sums so ordered to be paid
may be recovered in the same manner as the penalty.
PART XIV
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
103. The Governor may, by proclamation, declare any disease Declaration of
infectious
(in addition to the diseases specifically mentioned in section 2 of disease.
this Ordinance) to be an infectious disease or a dangerous infectious
disease within the meaning of this Ordinance, and so long as the
proclamation remains unrevoked the disease specified therein shall
be deemed to be an infectious disease or a dangerous infectious
disease, as the case may be.
104. The Governor shall have power— Power of

Governor in
(a) to cause to be provided, in such parts of the certain cases.
Colony as he may deem fit, one or more hospitals
or camps for the reception and isolation of persons
suffering from infectious diseases;
(b) to expend from the public funds of the Colony such
sums of money as may be necessary for the purpose
of carrying out the provisions of this Part of this
Ordinance or any regulations made thereunder;
(c) to do all such other matters and things as the
Governor in Council may deem necessary for the
protection of the public health.
105. (1) The Board shall have the direction of all measures Power of Board
to deal with
dealing with dangerous infectious diseases, and may make dangerous
regulations with regard to the control of any dangerous infectious infectious
diseases.
disease for all or any of the following purposes:
(a) the restraint, segregation, and isolation of persons
suffering from any dangerous infectious disease,
or likely from exposure to infection to suffer from
any such disease;
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(b) the removal to hospital and the curative treatment

of persons suffering from any dangerous
infectious disease;
(c) the removal, disinfection, and destruction of
personal effects, goods, houses, and other
property exposed to infection from any dangerous
infectious disease;
(d) the speedy burial or cremation of the dead, and
in such last mentioned case the provision of
crematoria;
(e) house to house visitation and inspection;
(f) the provision of medical aid and accommodation;
(g) the promotion of cleanliness, ventilation, and
disinfection;
(h) the prevention of the spread of dangerous
infectious diseases as well on the seas and rivers
and waters of the Colony, and on the high seas
within three miles of the coast thereof, as on land;
(i) the doing of any such matter or thing as may
appear advisable for preventing or checking such
diseases:
Provided that with respect to any hospital or asylum, or to any
institution for the relief of the sick and destitute poor under the
control of the Government, or to any patient therein, the powers
given by this section shall not be exercisable by the Board, but
such powers shall be exercised by the Governor in Council:
Provided further, that in the event of immediate action becoming,
in the opinion of the Governor, necessary to deal with, any
dangerous infectious disease under the provisions of this section
or of any regulations made thereunder, and of its not being
practicable, in the opinion of the Governor to have a meeting of
the Board forthwith, the Governor may, pending the holding of
such a meeting, take all such measures, do all such things, exercise
all such powers, and enjoy all such privileges and immunities as
might be taken, done, exercised or enjoyed by the Board, and all
such measures and things and the exercise of such powers shall be
as effectual, valid, and protected in all respects as if they had been
taken, done, or exercised by or under the authority of the Board.
(2) The provisions of sections 132 and 133 shall apply to

all regulations made under this section.
(3) There may be attached to any breach of any regulation
made under this section, a fine not exceeding four hundred and
eighty dollars, or a term of imprisonment, with or without hard
labour, not exceeding six months.
106. For the purposes of this Part of this Ordinance, the Board Board to order
execution of
may, if they shall see fit, order that any work or nuisance, which works in certain
cases.
any local authority or any person is required by this or any other
Ordinance relating to the public health to execute or remove, be
executed and removed at the charge of the public revenue by any
person whom they may for that purpose appoint, and the expenses
incurred in the execution of such work and in the removal of such
nuisance shall be a debt due to the Crown by such local authority
or person as aforesaid.
107. (1) Where an inmate of any premises used for human Notification of
infectious
habitation is suffering from any infectious disease, or any disease disease.
the symptoms of which may raise a suspicion that it may be an
infectious disease, then the following provision shall have effect,
that is to say:
(a) the head of the family to which such inmate (in
this Part of this Ordinance referred to as the
patient) belongs, and in his default the nearest
relative of the patient present in the premises or
being in attendance on the patient, and in default
of such relative every person in charge of or in
attendance on the patient, and in default of any
such person the occupier of the premises, shall,
as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is
suffering from any infectious disease or a disease
suspected to be infectious, send notice thereof to
the Medical Officer of Health of the district where
such patient resides, and such Medical Officer of
Health shall forthwith send a copy of such notice
to the secretary of the Board;
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(b) every medical practitioner attending on or called

in to visit the patient shall forthwith, on becoming
aware that the patient is suffering from infectious
disease or a disease suspected to be infectious,
send to the Medical Officer of Health of the
district where such patient resides, a certificate
stating the name of the patient, the situation of
the premises, and the disease from which, in the
opinion of such medical practitioner, such patient
is suffering or suspected to be suffering, and such
Medical Officer of Health shall forthwith send a
copy of such certificate to the secretary
of the Board.
(2) Every person required by this section to give a notice
or certificate, who fails to give the same, shall be liable to a fine of
ten dollars.
Meaning of (3) In this section, the expression “ occupier” includes a
“occupier.”
person having the charge, management, or control of any premises
or of any part thereof in which the patient is, and in the case of a
house the whole or any part of which is let to lodgers, the person
receiving the rent payable by the tenants or lodgers either on his
own account or as the agent of another person, and in the case of a
ship, vessel, or boat, the master or other person in charge thereof.
Forms of 108. The Board may prescribe forms for certificates under this
Certificates.
Ordinance, and any forms so prescribed shall be used in all cases
to which they apply.
Fees for 109. (1) The local authority of every district shall gratuitously
notification.
supply such forms for certificates to any medical practitioner
residing or practising in their district who applies for the same,
and shall pay to every medical practitioner for each certificate duly
sent by him in accordance with the provisions of section 107 a fee
of twenty-four cents, whether the case occurs in his private practice
or in his practice as a Government Medical Officer.
Non- (2) A payment made to any medical practitioner in
disqualification
of medical pursuance of this Ordinance shall not disqualify that practitioner
officer by receipt
of fees. for serving as a member of a local authority or Municipal Council.
(3) Where a medical practitioner attending on a patient is

himself the Medical Officer of Health of the district, he shall be
entitled to the fee to which he would be entitled if he were not
such Medical Officer.
110. (1) The Medical Officer of Health or a medical Power of entry

by Health
practitioner authorised by the local authority may at any time enter Officer.
and inspect premises in the district in which he has reason to believe
that any infectious disease exists, or has recently existed, and may
examine any person found on such premises with a view to
ascertaining whether such person is suffering or has recently
suffered, from any infectious disease, and may also examine any
dead body found on such premises; and in the event of admission,
inspection, or examination being refused, the Magistrate of the
district may grant a warrant authorising such entry, inspection, and
examination, and, on such warrant being exhibited, any person
refusing to admit such Medical Officer of Health or medical
practitioner to such premises, or obstructing him in making the
inspection or examination aforesaid, shall be liable to a fine of ten
dollars for every such offence.
(2) Such Medical Officer of Health or medical practitioner
may, for the purpose of examination, order the removal of the body
of any person suspected to have died of any infectious disease.
111. (1) Where any suitable hospital or place for the reception Removal to
isolation
of the sick, established and maintained from public funds, is hospital.
provided within the district of a local authority, or within a
convenient distance of such district, any person who is suffering
or is suspected to be suffering from any infectious disease, and is
without proper lodging or accommodation, or is so lodged that
proper precautions cannot be taken for preventing the spread of
the disease, or is lodged in any common lodging-house, or is on
board a ship or vessel, may, on a certificate signed by the Medical
Officer of Health or by any medical practitioner authorised by the
local authority, and with the consent of the persons in this section
mentioned, be removed, by order of any justice, to such hospital
or place at the cost of the local authority; and such person may be
detained in such hospital or place so long as he continues in an
infected condition.
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(2) An order under this section may be addressed to any

member of the Police Force or officer of a local authority; and any
person who wilfully disobeys or obstructs the execution of such
order shall be liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars.
(3) In the case of the Colonial Hospitals in Port-of-Spain
and San Fernando, the consent in this section mentioned shall be
that of the respective Medical Superintendents thereof, and in the
case of any hospital or place for the reception of the sick established
and maintained from public funds, that of the medical officer or
medical practitioner in immediate charge thereof.
Power to require 112. (1) If the Medical Officer of Health certifies to the local
dairyman to
furnish list of authority that any person in the district is suffering from infectious
sources of
supply. disease which the Medical Officer of Health has reason to suspect
is attributable to milk supplied within the district, the local authority
may require the dairyman supplying the milk to furnish to the
Medical Officer of Health, within a reasonable time fixed by them,
a complete list of all the farms, dairies, or places from which his
supply of milk is derived, or has been derived during the last six
weeks, and if the supply or any part of it is obtained through any
other dairyman, may make a similar requisition upon that dairyman.
(2) The local authority shall pay to the dairyman for every
list furnished by him under this section the sum of twelve cents,
and, if the list contains not less than twenty-five names, a further
sum of twelve cents for every twenty-five names contained in the
list.
(3) Every dairyman shall comply with the requisition of
the local authority under this section, and, if he fails to do so, shall
be liable, in respect of each offence, to a fine of twenty-four dollars,
and to a daily fine of ten dollars.
Dairymen to 113. (1) Every dairyman supplying milk within the district of
notify infectious
diseases existing a local authority from premises whether within or beyond such
among their
servants. district shall notify to the Medical Officer of Health all cases of
infectious disease among persons engaged in or in connection with
his dairy, as soon as he becomes aware or has reason to suspect
that such infectious disease exists.
(2) Any dairyman who fails to comply with this section

shall, for every such offence, be liable to a fine of ten dollars.
114. (1) A person who knows himself to be suffering from an Infected person
not to carry on
infectious disease, or who is nursing or attending on a case of occupation.
infectious disease, shall not milk any animal or engage in any
occupation connected with food, or carry on any trade or business
in such a manner as to be likely to spread the infectious disease,
and if he does so he shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars.
(2) If any person—
(a) while suffering from any infectious disease,
wilfully exposes himself without proper
precautions against spreading the disease in any
street, public place, shop, hotel, or public
conveyance, or
(b) being in charge of any person so suffering, so
exposes such sufferer, or causes such sufferer to be
so exposed,
he shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars.
115. (1) No person shall give, lend, sell, transmit, or expose, Infected clothes
not to be sent to
without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other laundry, etc.
things which have been exposed to infection from any infectious
or communicable disease.
(2) No person shall take, send, or deliver to any public
washhouse or to any laundry, or give to any person, for the purpose of
being washed, any bedding, clothes, or other things which he knows
to have been exposed to infection from any infectious or communicable
disease, unless they have been disinfected by or to the satisfaction of
the local authority or their Medical Officer of Health.
(3) If any person acts in contravention of the foregoing
provisions of this section, he shall be liable, in respect of each
offence, to a fine of forty-eight dollars.
(4) The local authority may, on the application of any
person, pay the expenses of the disinfection of any such bedding,
clothes, or other things, if carried out by them or under their direction.
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Filthy and 116. (1) Where the local authority, on the certificate of the
dangerous
articles to be Medical Officer of Health, are satisfied that the cleansing,
purified.
purification, or destruction of any article in a dwelling-house
is, by reason of the filthy condition of the article, necessary to
prevent injury or to remove or obviate risk of injury to the health
of any person in the dwelling-house, the local authority may
cause the article to be cleansed, purified, or destroyed at
their expense.
(2) Where a person sustains damage in consequence of
the exercise by the local authority of their powers under this
section, and the condition of the article with respect to which
those powers have been exercised is not attributable to his act or
default, the local authority shall make reasonable compensation
to that person.
Disinfection of 117. (1) Where the local authority, on the certificate of the
premises to
check or prevent Medical Officer of Health, are satisfied that the cleansing or
spread of
disease. disinfection of any premises or part thereof or of any articles therein
likely to retain infection, or the destruction of such articles, would
tend to prevent or check any infectious disease, the local authority
shall serve a notice on the occupier, or, if the premises are
unoccupied, on the owner of the premises, requiring the cleansing
or disinfection of the premises or part thereof or the disinfection
or destruction of any articles therein to the satisfaction of the
Medical Officer of Health within a time to be specified in the notice.
(2) If the occupier or owner fails to have the premises or
part thereof cleansed or disinfected or the articles disinfected or
destroyed within the time specified in the notice, the same may be
cleansed, disinfected, or destroyed by the local authority at the
cost of such owner or occupier:
Provided always, that if, in the opinion of the Medical Officer
of Health, the owner or occupier is unable effectually to cleanse or
disinfect the premises or any part thereof or to disinfect or destroy
such articles, the same may, without such notice, be cleansed,
disinfected, or destroyed by the local authority at the cost of the
local authority.
118. (1) No person, being the parent or having the care or Child suffering
from infectious
charge of a child within the district of the local authority, who is or disease not to
attend school.
has been suffering from infectious disease or has been exposed to
infection shall, after a notice from the Medical Officer of Health
that the child is not to be sent to school, permit such child to attend
school without having procured from such Medical Officer a
certificate (which shall be granted free of charge upon application)
that in his opinion such child may attend without undue risk of
communicating such disease to others.
(2) Any person who shall offend against this section shall,
for every such offence, be liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars.
119. (1) The principal of a school in which any scholar is List of scholars
to be furnished
suffering from an infectious disease shall, if required by the local where scholar in
a school is
authority, furnish to them within a reasonable time fixed by them suffering from
a complete list of the names and addresses of the scholars in or an infectious
disease.
attending at the school or any specified department thereof other
than boarders.
(2) The local authority of the district shall pay to the
principal of the school for every list furnished by him under this
section the sum of twelve cents, and, if the list contains not less
than twenty-five names, a further sum of twelve cents for every
twenty-five names contained in the list.
(3) If the principal of a school fails to comply with any of
the provisions of this section, he shall be liable, in respect of each
offence, to a fine of ten dollars.
(4) In this section, the expression “the principal,” used in
relation to a school, means the person in charge of the school, and
includes, where the school is divided into departments, and there
is no single person at the head of the whole school, as respects
each department, the head of that department.
120. (1) If any person knows that he is suffering from an Provisions as to

library books.
infectious disease, he shall not take or use any book or cause any
book to be taken for his use from any public or circulating library.
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(2) A person shall not permit any book which has been
taken from a public or circulating library, and is under his control,
to be used by any person whom he knows to be suffering from an
infectious disease.
(3) A person shall not return to any public or circulating
library any book which he knows to have been exposed to infection
from any infectious disease, or permit any such book which is
under his control to be so returned, but shall give notice to the
local authority that the book has been so exposed to infection, and
the local authority shall cause the book to be disinfected and
returned to the library, or to be destroyed.
(4) The local authority shall pay to the proprietor of the
library from which the book is procured the value of any book
destroyed under the power given by this section.
(5) If any person acts in contravention of or fails to comply
with this section, he shall be liable, in respect of each offence, to a
fine of ten dollars.
(6) In this section, the term “book” includes newspapers,
magazines, and other periodicals.
Prohibiting 121. The owner or driver of a public vehicle within the district
conveyance of
infected persons of the local authority, used for the carrying of passengers at separate
in public
vehicles. fares, shall not knowingly convey, or any other person shall not
knowingly place, in any such public vehicle, a person suffering
from any infectious disease, or a person suffering from any such
disease shall not enter any such vehicle, and every person who
shall offend against this section shall, for every such offence, be
liable to a fine of ten dollars.
Penalty on 122. Every owner or driver of a public vehicle shall immediately
failing to
provide for provide for the disinfection of such vehicle after it has to his
disinfection of
public vehicle. knowledge conveyed any person suffering from an infectious
disease, and if he fails to do so he shall be liable to a fine of twenty-
four dollars; but no such owner or driver shall be required to convey
any person so suffering until he has been paid a sum sufficient to
cover any loss or expense incurred by him in carrying into effect
the provisions of this section.
123. (1) If any person suffering from any infectious disease is Driver or owner
of vehicle
conveyed in any public vehicle within the district of the local conveying
infected person
authority, the owner or driver thereof, as soon as it comes to his to give notice.
knowledge, shall give notice to the Medical Officer of Health, and
shall cause such vehicle to be disinfected, and if he fails so to do
he shall be liable to a fine of twenty-four dollars; and the owner or
driver of such vehicle shall be entitled to recover in any Court of
competent jurisdiction from the person so conveyed, or from the
person causing that person to be so conveyed, a sufficient sum to
cover any loss and expense incurred by him in connection with
such disinfection.
(2) It shall be the duty of the local authority, when so
requested by the owner or driver of such public vehicle, to provide
for the disinfection of the same free of charge, except in cases
where the owner or driver conveyed a person knowing that he was
suffering from infectious disease.
124. Any person who hires or uses a public vehicle, other than Disinfection of
public vehicles
a hearse for the conveyance of the body of a person who has died if used for
carrying corpse.
from any infectious disease, without previously notifying to the
owner or driver of such public vehicle that the person whose body
is or is intended to be so conveyed has died from infectious disease;
and, after any such notification as aforesaid, any owner or driver
of a public vehicle which has been used for conveying the body of
a person who has died from infectious disease, who shall not
immediately afterwards provide for the disinfection of such vehicle
to the satisfaction of the local authority, shall be liable to a fine of
125. Every person who shall cease to occupy any house, room, Penalty on
persons ceasing
or part of a house in which any person has, within six weeks to occupy
houses without
previously, been suffering from any infectious disease, without previous
having such house, room, or part of a house, and all articles therein disinfection or
giving notice to
liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of the owner, or
persons making
Medical Officer of Health, as testified by a certificate signed by false answers.
him, or without first giving to the owner of such house, room, or
part of a house, notice of the previous existence of such disease;
and every person ceasing to occupy any house, room, or part of a
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house, and who, on being questioned by the owner thereof, or by

any person negotiating for the hire of such house, room, or part of
a house, as to the fact of there having, within six weeks previously,
been therein any person suffering from any infectious disease,
knowingly makes a false answer to such question, shall be liable
to a fine of forty-eight dollars.
Penalty on 126. Any person who knowingly lets for hire any house, room,
letting houses in
which infected or part of a house in which any person has been suffering from any
persons have infectious disease, without having such house, room, or part of a
been lodging.
house, and all articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected
to the satisfaction of a medical practitioner, as testified by a
certificate signed by him, shall be liable to a fine of ninety-six
dollars, or to imprisonment for one month.
Penalty on 127. Any person letting for hire, or showing for the purpose of
persons letting
houses making letting for hire, any house or part of a house, who, on being
false statements questioned by any person negotiating for the hire of such house or
as to infectious
disease. part of a house as to the fact of there being or within six weeks
previously having been therein any person suffering from any
infectious disease, knowingly makes a false answer to such
question, shall be liable to a fine of ninety-six dollars, or to
imprisonment for one month.
Power of 128. (1) Where either—
Magistrate to
order removal (a) the body of a person who has died of any
of dead body.
infectious disease is retained in a room in which
persons live or sleep, or
(b) the body of a person who has died of any
infectious disease is retained, without the sanction
in writing of the Medical Officer of Health or any
medical practitioner, for more than forty-eight
hours, elsewhere than in a room not used at the
time as a dwelling-place, sleeping-place, or work
room, or
(c) any dead body is retained in any house or room
or ship under circumstances which, if continued,
may endanger the health of the inmates thereof,
or of any adjoining or neighbouring house or
building, or
(d) any dead body found within the district is

unclaimed or no sufficient person undertakes to
bury it,
a Magistrate may, on a certificate signed by a Medical Officer of
Health or other medical practitioner, direct that the body be
removed, at the cost of the local authority, to any available mortuary,
and be buried within the time limited by the Magistrate; and may,
if it is the body of a person who has died of an infectious disease,
or if he considers immediate burial necessary, direct that the body
be buried immediately without removal to the mortuary.
(2) If any person obstructs the execution of any direction
given by a Magistrate under this section, he shall be liable to a fine
of forty-eight dollars.
129. If any person shall die from any infectious disease in any Bodies of
persons dying of
hospital or place of temporary accommodation for the sick, and infectious
disease in
the Medical Officer of Health or the medical practitioner in charge hospital, etc., to
of such hospital or place certifies that in his opinion it is desirable, be removed only
for burial.
in order to prevent the risk of communicating any infectious disease
or of spreading infection, that the body shall not be removed from
such hospital or place except for the purpose of being forthwith
buried, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to remove
such body from such hospital or place except for the last mentioned
purpose; and when the body is taken out of such hospital for that
purpose it shall be forthwith carried or taken direct to some
cemetery or place of burial, and shall be forthwith there buried;
and any person wilfully offending against this section shall be liable
to a fine of forty-eight dollars: Nothing in this Ordinance shall
prevent the removal of any dead body from any hospital or
temporary place of accommodation for the sick to any mortuary,
and such mortuary shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed
part of such hospital or place as aforesaid.
130. (1) The local authority may provide nurses for attendance Provision of
nursing
on patients suffering from any infectious disease in their district attendance by
local authority.
who, owing to want of accommodation at the hospital, or danger
of infection, cannot be removed to the hospital, or in cases where
removal to the hospital is likely to endanger the patient’s life.
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(2) The local authority may charge such reasonable sums for
the services of nurses provided by them as they think fit.
Wake not to be 131. It shall not be lawful to hold any wake over the body of
held over body
of person dying any person who has died of infectious disease, and the occupier of
of infectious
disease. any house or premises, or part of a house or premises, who permits
or suffers any such wake to take place in such house or premises,
or part of a house or premises, and every person who attends to
take part in such wake shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars.
Publication and 132. All regulations made under this Part of this Ordinance shall
effect of
regulations. be published in the Royal Gazette, and when so published shall
thenceforth have the same effect and operation as if they were
enacted by and formed part of this Ordinance.
General power 133. For the purposes of this Part of this Ordinance, any person
to enter and
carry out work. authorised to act under the provisions hereof or of any regulations
made in pursuance of any authority contained in this Part of this
Ordinance may at any time, with or without assistance—
(a) enter on lands and buildings and inspect and
examine the same and all things thereon or
therein;
(b) do on any land or in any building any sanitary or
other work authorised or directed;
(c) generally do, with respect to persons, places, land,
buildings, animals, or things, whatever is
necessary or expedient in order to carry out the
foregoing provisions of this Part of this Ordinance
or any direction or requirement given or arising
thereunder.
PART XV
COMMON LODGING-HOUSES AND BARRACK YARDS

Return by owner
of barrack.
134. (1) The owner of a barrack yard shall, immediately upon
the commencement of this Ordinance, make a return in writing to
the local authority, signed by him or his authorised agent, giving the
situation and area of such yard, the number of rooms therein, and
his name and address, and the name and address of his agent, if any.
(2) The owner shall cause every room in his barrack yard
to be distinctly and separately numbered.
(3) The owner of any barrack yard who shall fail to Penalty.
comply with the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine
of five dollars in respect of every day on which he fails so to comply.
135. Every local authority shall keep a register in which shall Register of
common
be entered the names and residences of the keepers of all common lodging-houses
and barrack
lodging-houses and owners of barrack yards within the district of yards.
such authority, and the situation of every such house and barrack
yard, and the number of lodgers authorised under this Ordinance
by such authority to be received in any such lodging-house.
136. A copy of any entry in the register in the last preceding Evidence.
section mentioned, certified by an officer of the local authority to
be a true copy, shall be received in all Courts and on all occasions
as evidence, and shall be sufficient proof of the matter registered,
without production of the register or of any document or thing on
which the entry is founded.
137. A person shall not keep a common lodging-house or receive Lodging-house

or barrack not to
a lodger therein or suffer any room in a barrack to be occupied be occupied
unless
unless the house or barrack is registered in accordance with the registered.
provisions of this Ordinance, and unless his name as the keeper or
owner thereof is registered under this Ordinance: Provided that Death of keeper
of lodginghouse.
when the registered keeper of a common lodging-house dies, his
widow or any member of his family may keep the house as a
common lodging-house for not more than four weeks after his death
without being registered as the keeper thereof.
138. A house or barrack yard shall not be registered as a Premises to be

inspected before
common lodging-house or barrack yard, as the case may be, registration.
until it has been inspected and approved for the purpose by the
local authority.
139. Any keeper of a common lodging-house who receives any Penalty for
using
lodger in such house, and any owner of a barrack yard who lets or unregistered
premises.
suffers to be occupied any room or rooms in such barrack yard
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without registering the same under this Ordinance, shall be liable

to a fine of twenty-four dollars, and in the case of a continuing
offence to a further fine of ten dollars for every day during which
the offence is continued.
Burden of proof 140. In any proceeding under the provisions of this Ordinance
as to persons
being of same relating to common lodging-houses and to barracks or barrack
family.
yards, if the inmates of any house, or barrack, or room, or other
part of a house or barrack allege that they are members of the
same family, the burden of proving such allegation shall lie on the
person making it.
Bye-laws. 141. The local authority may, and shall if directed by the Board,
make bye-laws as to all or any of the following matters in relation to
common lodging-houses, barracks, and barrack yards, that is to say:
(a) the fixing and from time to time varying of the
number of persons who may be received as
lodgers in each common lodging-house and in
each room thereof, and the separation of the sexes
in such common lodging-houses;
(b) the promoting of cleanliness and ventilation;
(c) the sufficiency of the water supply and privy,
shower bath, washing, drainage, and dustbin
accommodation and other appliances and means
of cleanliness in proportion to the number of
lodgers and occupiers;
(d) the giving of notices and the taking of precautions
in the case of any infectious disease;
(e) the inspection and the time of inspection thereof;
(f) the collection and removal of refuse;
(g) the painting or limewashing of walls and
buildings;
(h) the keeping by the owner in proper condition of
all drains and sanitary arrangements;
(i) the paving of yards;
(j) generally, the keeping and well ordering of such
houses and barrack yards.
142. (1) If it appears to the local authority that, in the case of Default in
complying with
a common lodging-house or barrack yard, default is made in bye-laws or
Ordinance.
complying with any bye-laws made under the last preceding Recovery of
section or with any of the provisions of this Ordinance, the local expenses
incurred by
authority may, by notice in writing specifying the default, require local authority.
the keeper of such common lodging-house or the owner of such
barrack yard to remedy the default within such time as may be
specified in such notice.
(2) If, within the time specified in the notice, the default
is not remedied to the satisfaction of the local authority, they may
themselves do the work required to be done, and the expenses
incurred in so doing may be recovered in the manner hereinafter
prescribed, and until paid shall be a charge on the premises in
respect of which the work was done.
(3) Where a local authority have incurred any expenses
in doing any work as aforesaid, such expenses may be recovered
by the local authority, together with interest thereon at the rate of
five per centum per annum computed from the date of the
completion of the work, under the Rates and Charges Recovery
Ordinance or by action in the Petty Civil Court of the district,
without limit of amount, at the discretion of the local authority.
(4) Whenever it shall be made to appear to the local
authority on any representation by the keeper of a common lodging-
house or the owner of a barrack yard, and on due investigation of
the circumstances, that such keeper or owner is from poverty or
other inability unable to defray the expenses of any work done by
the local authority under this section, the local authority may by
order or in agreement with such keeper or owner declare such
expenses to be payable by annual instalments within a period not
exceeding fifteen years with interest at five per centum per annum
until the whole is paid; and such instalments or interest or any part
thereof may be recovered by the local authority in the manner
provided by the last preceding subsection.
(5) If at any time any of the instalments or the interest
thereon or any part thereof respectively shall be in arrear and
unpaid for the period of three months after the time appointed
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for the payment thereof, the whole amount of the expenses

charged on such common lodging-house or barrack yard
remaining unpaid shall forthwith become payable, together with
interest thereon computed from the date of the payment of the
last instalment, or if no instalment has been paid from, the date
when the expenses charged on such common lodging-house or
barrack yard first became due and payable by the keeper or owner,
and may be recovered by the local authority in the manner
provided by subsection (3) of this section.
Cancelling 143. The local authority, if at any time they are of opinion that
registration.
any person registered as the keeper of a common lodging-house is
not a fit person for the purpose, may cancel the registration.
Conditions on
which barrack
144. (1) No person shall take any steps to establish a barrack
yard may be yard, or to convert any premises into a barrack yard, or to
established.
reconstruct or rebuild any existing barrack yard, except with the
consent of the local authority, which consent shall only be granted
on the conditions following, that is to say:
(a) that the barrack yard shall be established and
constructed in conformity with a model plan and
specification to be drawn up by the Board;
(b) that each room shall be sufficiently ventilated
directly to the outside air on at least two sides,
and that sufficient provision shall be made for
the access of light thereto;
(c) that no rooms shall ventilate into another;
(d) that the roofs of all rooms shall be close boarded
and ventilated, and that every room shall be rat
proof;
(e) that the whole or such part of any yard as the local
authority may direct shall be paved to the
satisfaction of the local authority;
(f) that the privy accommodation and the provision
for the collection of refuse shall be such as may
be prescribed in each case by the local authority.
(2) For the purposes of this section, each of the following Definition of
“reconstruction
operations, namely:- and rebuilding.”
(a) the re-erection, wholly or partially, of any building
of which an outer wall is pulled down or burnt
down to or within five feet of the ground floor,
(b) the making of any addition to an existing building
by raising any part of the roof, by altering a wall,
or making any projection from the building, but
so far as regards the addition only, and
(c) the roofing or covering over of an open space
between walls or buildings,
shall be deemed to be the reconstruction or rebuilding of a
barrack yard.
(3) Any person taking any steps to establish a barrack yard Penalty.
or to convert any premises into a barrack yard or to reconstruct or
rebuild any existing barrack yard, except with the consent of the local
authority, shall be liable to a fine of two hundred and forty dollars.
145. (1) With regard to barrack yards existing at the Existing barrack
yards.
commencement of this Ordinance, the local authority shall, in any
case in which a Medical Officer of Health reports that a barrack
yard is in such a condition as to be unfit for human habitation or
injurious to the health of the occupants or to the public health, or
that the premises should be made rat proof, take such proceedings
as may be necessary to have the same put in proper sanitary condition
or made rat proof, or, where the premises are incapable of being put
in such condition or made rat proof, to have the same closed: Provided
that the local authority may at any time order the whole or any part
of any barrack yard to be paved to their satisfaction.
(2) In case of non-compliance with the provisions of this
section the procedure provided by section 73 shall apply.
PART XVI
BAKEHOUSES
146. For the purposes of this Part of this Ordinance— Interpretation of
terms.
“bakehouse” means any place in which are commonly baked,
or exposed or offered for sale, or deposited for the purpose
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of sale or of preparation for sale or have been recently sold

for human consumption, bread, biscuits, cakes, or
confectionery, in the baking or selling of which a trade is
carried on;
“employed”, as applied to any person, includes any person
working in a bakehouse, whether he receives wages or not;
“occupier” includes any person in possession.
Application to 147. (1) Every person who intends to use any place as a
use place as
bakehouse. bakehouse shall make application in writing to the local authority,
setting out his full name and a correct description of the premises
so used or intended to be used. If the local authority are satisfied
that the premises specified in the application are such as can
properly be used as a bakehouse under this Ordinance, they shall
issue to the applicant a certificate to that effect.
(2) The particulars of such application and certificate
shall be entered in a book to be kept by the local authority and to
be called “The Bakehouses Register”.
(3) Any person who shall use any place as a bakehouse
without having first obtained a certificate as hereinbefore
provided, shall be liable to a fine of twenty-four dollars.
Painting and 148. (1) The inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse and
washing
premises. the ceilings or tops of such rooms, whether such walls, ceilings,
or tops be plastered or not, and all passages and staircases of
such bakehouse, shall either be painted with oil or varnish or be
limewashed; when painted with oil or varnish, there shall be three
coats of paint or varnish, and the paint or varnish shall be renewed
once at least in every three years and shall be washed with hot
water and soap once at least in every six months; when
limewashed, the limewashing shall be renewed in each of the
months of April, August, and December in every year.
(2) The occupier of any bakehouse who fails to keep
the same in conformity with this section shall be liable to a fine
of forty-eight dollars.
149. (1) It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied as Conditions of

use of
a bakehouse or to occupy as a bakehouse any room or place unless bakehouse.
the following regulations are complied with:
(a) no privy or dustbin shall be within or
communicate directly with the bakehouse;
(b) any cistern or pipe for supplying water to a
bakehouse shall be separate and distinct from any
cistern or pipe for supplying water direct to a
privy;
(c) no drain or pipe for carrying off faecal matter or
sewage shall have an opening within the
bakehouse;
(d) e v e r y b a k e h o u s e s h a l l b e e ff i c i e n t l y
ventilated to the satisfaction of the Medical
Officer of Health.
(2) Any person who lets or suffers to be occupied or who
occupies any room or place as a bakehouse in contravention of
this section shall be liable to a fine of twenty-four dollars, and to a
further fine of one dollar for every day during which any room or
place is so occupied after a conviction under this section.
150. The local authority may make bye-laws as to all or any of Bye-laws.
the following matters, that is to say:
(a) the structure of floors and walls of bakehouses;
(b) the keeping of bakehouses in a clean and sanitary
condition;
(c) the prevention of the accumulation of dust, ashes
and refuse, and the duties of occupiers of the
premises with regard thereto.
151. (1) Where a Magistrate is satisfied, on the prosecution of Penalty for

using insanitary
the local authority, that any room or place used as a bakehouse is premises.
in such a state as to be, on sanitary grounds, unfit for use or
occupation as a bakehouse, the occupier of the bakehouse shall be
liable to a fine of twenty-four dollars, and on a second or subsequent
conviction to a fine of forty-eight dollars.
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(2) The Magistrate, in addition to or instead of inflicting

such fine, may order means to be adopted by the occupier within
the time named in the order for the purpose of removing the ground
of complaint.
(3) The Magistrate may, on application, enlarge the time
so named, but if, after the expiration of the time so originally named
or enlarged by subsequent order, the order is not complied with,
the occupier shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for every day
that such non-compliance continues.
Sleeping places. 152. (1) No room or place on the same level with the bakehouse
and forming part of the same building shall be used as a sleeping
place or living room unless it is effectually separated from the
bakehouse by a partition of wood, masonry, or other substantial
material extending from the floor to the ceiling, and unless it has
an external window of at least nine superficial feet in area made to
open for ventilation.
(2) Any person who lets or occupies or knowingly suffers
to be occupied any room or place contrary to this section shall be
liable to a fine of five dollars for the first offence, and twenty-four
dollars for any subsequent offence.
Persons 153. (1) No person who shall be suffering from any infectious
suffering from
certain diseases. or communicable disease shall be employed in any bakehouse.
(2) If the owner of any bakehouse shall knowingly employ
any person in contravention of this section, such owner shall be
liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars for the first offence, and ninety-
six dollars for any subsequent offence.
Powers of entry 154. (1) The Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Inspector
and inspection.
shall, for the purposes of the execution of this Part of this Ordinance,
have power to do all or any of the following things, namely:
(a) to enter, inspect, and examine, at all reasonable
times by day or night, any bakehouse;
(b) to take with him a constable into a bakehouse in
which he has reasonable cause to apprehend any
obstruction in the execution of his duty;
(c) to make such examination and enquiry as may be

necessary to ascertain whether the enactments for
be time being in force relating to public health
are complied with so far as respects the bakehouse
and the persons employed therein.
(2) The occupier of any bakehouse, his agents and
servants, shall furnish the means required by the Medical Officer
of Health or Sanitary Inspector for entry, inspection, examination,
and enquiry in relation to such bakehouse.
(3) Every person who wilfully delays the Medical Officer Obstruction.
of Health or Sanitary Inspector in the exercise of any power under
this section, or who fails to comply with any requisition of such
Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Inspector in pursuance of
this section, shall be deemed to obstruct the Medical Officer of
Health or Sanitary Inspector in the execution of his duties under
this Ordinance.
PART XVII
MOSQUITOES
155. For the purpose of preventing the breeding of mosquitoes, Bye-laws for the
control of
a local authority may make bye-laws relating to all or any of the mosquitoes.
following matters, that is to say:
(a) the protection of receptacles for storing water by
wire gauze or other efficient means;
(b) the keeping of premises free from stagnant water
liable to breed mosquitoes, and from articles,
appliances, trees, or plants which may retain
stagnant water liable to breed mosquitoes;
(c) the disinfecting and oiling of cesspits, and the
cleaning out of catchpits;
(d) the keeping in repair and free of obstruction of
eaves-gutters and down-pipes;
(e) the cutting down of bush or undergrowth liable
to harbour mosquitoes.
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PART XVIII
HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, SHOPS WHERE

FOOD IS SOLD BY RETAIL, AND HUCKSTERS.
Hotels, 156. (1) A local authority may make bye-laws for all or any of
restaurants and
shops. the following matters, that is to say:-
(a) the inspection of hotels, restaurants, retail shops,
and places where any article, cooked or uncooked,
and intended for human consumption, is sold,
exposed or offered for sale, or deposited for the
purpose of sale or of preparation for sale;
(b) the cleanliness and disinfection of the premises
and of all instruments, appliances, furniture,
utensils, fixtures, and accessories used in
connection with the business carried on in any
hotel, restaurant, retail shop, or other such place;
(c) the protection from contamination by dust flies,
and otherwise of all articles intended, exposed,
or offered for sale for human consumption in such
hotels, restaurants, retail shops, and other places;
(d) the precautions to be taken against the spread of
infection or communication of disease from, to,
or amongst persons on such premises, whether
occupiers, employees, employers, guests or
customers;
(e) the painting, varnishing, distempering or lime-
washing of the inner and outer walls, and of all
fixtures, counters, shelves, doors, windows, and
partitions of such hotels, restaurants, retail shops,
and other places;
(f) the duties of owners and occupiers with regard to
the removal and disposal of all refuse and waste
matters from such hotels, restaurants, retail shops,
and other places;
(g) the registration of retail shops and places where
any article of food, whether solid or liquid, cooked
or uncooked, intended for human consumption,
is sold, exposed or offered for sale, or deposited
for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale;
(h) the registration of all persons conveying or

delivering from house to house, for purposes of
sale, selling or offering for sale outside of any
building or in any street, square or other public
place, any foodstuffs, bread, cakes, pastry or other
confectionery, cooked food, sweet drinks; ices or
other solid or liquid refreshments; and the issue
of badges denoting registration to such persons;
(i) the cancellation of registration for breaches of
bye-laws;
(j) the providing that any person registered under any
bye-laws made under this section shall carry and
exhibit his badge of registration when lawfully
required;
(k) the charging of fees for the badges mentioned in
this section;
(l) the securing of the cleanliness of all persons
registered under this section, or employed in retail
shops registered under this section;
(m) the securing of the cleanliness of all appliances,
utensils, instruments, vessels and accessories used
in connection with the business described in
paragraph (h) hereof;
(n) the prohibition of the sale within the district of
any local authority of any article of food whether
solid or liquid, cooked or uncooked, intended for
human consumption, supplied from any retail
shops or places outside the district of such local
authority with respect to which any bye-laws
made under this section are not observed.
(2) Every registration under subsection (1) of this section Duration of
registration.
shall, unless cancelled, be and continue in force from the date of
its issue until the 31st of December next thereafter.
.
Hucksters
157. A local authority may make bye-laws for the protection from Hucksters.
contamination by dust, flies, or otherwise of all foodstuffs, cakes,
pastry, and other confectionery kept, sold or offered for sale, outside
of any building, or in any street, square, or other public place.
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PART XIX
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS

Bye-laws. 158. (1) A local authority may make bye-laws as to all or any
of the following matters relating to factories and workshops, that
is to say:
(a) the cleanliness of rooms and freedom from
effluvia;
(b) the removal of refuse;
(c) ventilation and light;
(d) sufficiency, type, and position of sanitary
conveniences;
(e) precautions against the contamination of any
article of food or drink manufactured or in the
course of manufacture for human consumption;
(f) precautions against the spread of infection;
(g) the registration of factories and workshops.
(2) In this section—
“factory” means any premises wherein, or within the close or
curtilage of which, mechanical power is used to move or
work any machinery;
“workshop” means any premises, room, or place, not being a
factory wherein, or within the close or curtilage of which,
any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for the
purposes of gain, and to or over which premises, room, or
place the employer of the persons working therein has the
right of access or control.
PART XX
BARBERS’ AND SIMILAR SHOPS

Barbers’ and 159. (1) A local authority may make bye-laws as to all or any
similar shops.
of the following matters relating to shops, that is to say:
(a) the cleanliness and disinfection of the premises,
and of all instruments, appliances, furniture,
utensils, fixtures, and accessories used in or in
connection with the business carried on in such
premises;
(b) precautions against the spread of infection or

communication of disease from, to, or amongst
persons on such premises, whether occupiers,
employers, employees, or customers;
(c) the entry on and examination of such premises
by the local authority.
(2) In this section, the term “shop” includes “barber’s
shop” and any room in any shop used for the purpose of carrying
on the business of a barber, and also any other shop or room, or
class of shop or room, which, by proclamation, the Governor in
Council may declare to be included in such term.
PART XXI
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES
160. (1) The local authority of any urban or rural district may, Slaughter-
houses.
if they think fit, provide one or more slaughter-houses for the whole
or for any special area in such district, and from and after the
provision of any such slaughter-house, it shall not be lawful for
any person to slaughter any animal intended for the food of man in
any place within any such area except in the slaughter-house
provided therefor; and any person acting in contravention of the
provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of forty-eight
dollars for each animal slaughtered.
(2) In this section, the term “ animal”* means any bull, Definition of
”animal”.
cow, ox, steer, bullock, heifer, calf, sheep, lamb, pig, or goat, and
any other animal which, by proclamation, the Governor in Council
may declare to be included within such term.
(3) Any such local authority as aforesaid may make bye- Bye-laws.
laws for regulating the use of any slaughter-houses provided by
them, and of all buildings, stalls, pens, slaughtering places, or other
parts thereof, and the approaches thereto, and any pastures attached
thereto, and specifically for all or any of the following purposes,
namely:
(a) for fixing the tolls, rents, and other charges to
be paid thereat, and for regulating the rights
and liabilities of owners of any animals brought
* Turtle included in the term “animal” —see R.G. 22.5.1941.
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therein, and the right of access to such

slaughter-houses, and appurtenant grounds or
any part thereof;
(b) for regulating the manner of occupying and using
such slaughter-houses, and the inspection and
slaughtering of animals therein;
(c) with respect to the licensing of slaughtermen and
the suspension, revocation, and cancellation of
such licences;
(d) for fixing the hours at which such slaughter-
houses shall be opened and closed;
(e) for fixing the hours when, and prescribing the
conditions and requirements under and subject
to which, animals are to be slaughtered therein;
(f) for fixing the times when, and prescribing the
conditions and requirements under and subject
to which, carcases and other parts of any animals
slaughtered in such slaughter-houses shall be
removed therefrom;
(g) for prescribing the description and make of the
carts to be provided by the owners of carcases of
animals slaughtered in such slaughter-houses for
the removal of such carcases therefrom;
(h) for dealing with any animal which may be found
to be diseased;
(i) for regulating the feeding and watering of animals
brought therein and for preventing cruelty therein;
(j) for regulating the landing of animals intended to
be taken direct from the landing-place to any such
slaughter-house, and prescribing the precautions
to be observed by the owners of such animals in
bringing such animals into the slaughter-house
or any part thereof;
(k) for regulating and fixing the charges for the use
of any scales provided by the local authority;
(l) for preventing nuisances and obstructions in any
such slaughter-houses or any part thereof, or the
approaches thereto, or the grounds around the

slaughter-house buildings, and for the summary
ejection from such slaughter-houses, approaches,
or grounds of any person or persons found
fighting or behaving in a disorderly or riotous
manner or creating any disturbance therein.
(4) Where any owner makes default in complying with Default of
owners in
any bye-law made under this section imposing any duty on him complying with
with respect to any animal belonging to him, it shall be lawful for byelaws.
the local authority, without prejudice to their right to institute

summary proceedings for the breach of such bye-laws, to undertake
the execution of such duty, and the expenses incurred for the
purpose shall be a debt due from such owner to the local authority.
(5) Where default is made by any owner in payment of Default in
payment of
any expenses due to the local authority under this Part of this expenses.
Ordinance or under any bye-laws made thereunder, it shall be lawful
for the local authority to recover the expenses due by summary
proceedings before the Magistrate or by sale of any animal of the
owner then in the slaughter-house.
(6) Any sale under this section shall be by public auction, Sale and
proceeds
after seven days’ advertisement thereof. The local authority shall thereof.
apply the proceeds of such sale in or towards the payment of the
costs and expenses of such sale, and, secondly, in or towards
payment of the sums due by the owner to the local authority; and
the surplus, if any, shall be paid to the person entered as the owner
of the animal in the books of the local authority.
PART XXII
SALE OF FRESH MEAT IN PROCLAIMED AREAS

161. (1) The Governor in Council may, by proclamation, Control of sale
of fresh meat in
declare any area, to be defined in such proclamation (hereinafter defined area.
referred to as a “defined area”), being outside the limits of the
City of Port-of-Spain, the Boroughs of San Fernando and Arima,
and of Princes Town as defined in the Fourth Schedule hereto, to Fourth
Schedule.
be an area in which fresh meat shall not be sold except in premises
or places approved and by persons licensed for the purpose by
the local authority.
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(2) On the coming into operation of any such

proclamation, it shall be lawful for the local authority of the district
in which a defined area is situate to approve premises or places in
such area in which fresh meat may be sold or offered or exposed
for sale, and to grant to any person or persons licences to sell or
offer or expose for sale fresh meat in such premises or places.
(3) Every such licence shall be issued free of charge to
the applicant, shall (unless cancelled under subsection (5) of this
section or under subsection (8) of section 86) expire on the next
succeeding 31st of December, and shall be granted on such terms
and conditions as the local authority may from time to time
determine.
(4) No licence under this section shall be granted to a
person suffering from any communicable or infectious disease, or
to any person whose state of health is, in the opinion of the Medical
Officer of Health, such as to render him unfit to be concerned in
the sale of meat.
(5) The local authority may cancel any licence on a breach
of any of the terms and conditions thereof, and shall cancel any
such licence if the holder thereof is found to be suffering from any
communicable or infectious disease or whose state of health is, in
the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health, such as to unfit him
to be concerned in the sale of meat.
(6) Any person who sells or offers or exposes for sale
any fresh meat in a defined area, except on premises or in a place
approved by the local authority, or not being the holder of an
unexpired licence granted under this section, shall be liable to a
fine of forty-eight dollars.
(7) In this section, “fresh meat” means fresh meat of any
bull, cow, ox, steer, bullock, heifer, calf, sheep, lamb, pig, goat, or
turtle slaughtered for sale, and includes imported fresh meat.
PART XXIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Entry and obstruction
Delegation of 162. Where the Board or a local authority have, by virtue of
powers.
this Ordinance or any regulations or bye-laws thereunder, power
to examine or enter any premises, they may examine or enter by

any of their members, or by any officer or person authorised by
them, either generally or in any particular case.
163. (1) Except in cases otherwise specially provided for by General rules as
to entry.
this Ordinance, where the Board or a local authority, or their officers
or any persons acting under the Board or authority, have power to
examine or enter as aforesaid, the following provisions shall apply,
that is to say:
(a) the person so claiming the right to enter shall, if
required, produce some written document,
properly authenticated on the part of the Board
or local authority, showing the right of the person
producing the same to enter;
(b) any person refusing or failing to admit any person
who is authorised and claims to enter the premises
shall, if—
(i) the entry is for the purpose of carrying into
effect an order of a Magistrate, and either
is stated in the said document to be for that
purpose or is claimed by an officer of the
Board or of a local authority to be for that
purpose, or
(ii) it is proved that the refusal or failure is with
intent to prevent the discovery of some
contravention of this Ordinance or any
regulation or bye-law under this
Ordinance, or
(iii) the refusal or failure is declared by the
enactment conferring the right of entry to
render the person refusing or failing subject
to a penalty,
be liable to a fine of twenty-four dollars.
(2) If a Magistrate is satisfied, by information on oath—
(a) that there is reasonable ground for such entry and
that there has been a refusal or failure to admit to
such premises, and either that reasonable notice
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of the intention to apply to a Magistrate for a

warrant has been given or that the giving of notice
would defeat the object of the entry, or
(b) that there is reasonable cause to believe that there
is on the said premises some contravention of this
Ordinance or of any regulation or bye-law under
this Ordinance, and that an application for
admission, or notice of an application for the
warrant, would defeat the object of the entry,
Second the Magistrate may, by warrant under his hand, authorise the Board
Schedule.
Form E. or the local authority or their officers or other persons, as the case
may require, to enter the premises, and if need be by force, with
such assistance as they or he may require, and there execute their
duties under this Ordinance.
(3) Any person obstructing the execution of any such
warrant shall be liable to a fine of ninety-six dollars, or, where the
offence is a continuing one, to a fine of ten dollars for every day
that the offence is continued.
(4) The warrant shall continue in force until the purpose
for which the entry is necessary has been satisfied.
Obstruction. 164. (1) Subject to any express provisions of this Ordinance,
whosoever hinders or obstructs any person in the discharge of a
duty imposed on him by or under any authority conferred by this
Ordinance or by any regulations or bye-laws made thereunder shall
be liable to a fine of ninety-six dollars, or, where the offence is a
continuing one, to a fine of ten dollars for every day that the offence
is continued.
Bribery, etc. (2) Whosoever by any gratuity, bribe, promise, or other
inducement prevents, or attempts to prevent, the due execution by
any person of any duty imposed on him by this Ordinance or by
any regulations or bye-laws made thereunder, shall be liable for a
first offence to a fine of ninety-six dollars, and for a second or any
subsequent offence to a fine of two hundred and forty dollars.
Obstruction of 165. (1) Where the occupier of premises prevents the owner
owner by
occupier. thereof from obeying or carrying into effect any provision of this
Ordinance, a Magistrate, on complaint, shall by order, require such
occupier to permit the execution of any works which appear to

him necessary for the purpose of obeying or carrying into effect
the said provision; and if, within twenty-four hours after service
on him of the order, such occupier fails to comply therewith, he
shall be liable to a fine of twenty-four dollars for every day during
the continuance of such non-compliance.
(2) If the occupier of any premises, when requested by
or on behalf of the local authority to state the name and address
of the owner of the premises, refuses or wilfully omits to disclose
or wilfully mis-states the same, he shall be liable to a fine of
Regulations and bye-laws
166. Except as in this Ordinance expressly provided, regulations Penalties for
breaches of bye-
or bye-laws made under this Ordinance may provide for the laws.
imposition on offenders against the same of penalties not exceeding
twenty-four dollars for each offence, and in the case of a continuing
offence a further penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each day
during which the offence continues.
167. (1) Regulations or bye-laws made by the Board under this Confirmation of
regulations and
Ordinance shall not take effect until they have been confirmed by bye-laws.
the Governor in Council.
(2) Regulations or bye-laws made by a local authority
under this Ordinance shall not take effect unless and until they
have been approved by the Board, and confirmed by the Governor
in Council.
168. When confirmed by the Governor in Council, all such Effect and
publication of
regulations or bye-laws shall come immediately into effect and bye-laws.
have the force of law, and shall be published in the Royal Gazette.
Recovery of costs and expenses

169. Where any local authority have incurred expenses, for the Recovery of
costs and
payment whereof the owner of the premises for or in respect of expenses.
which the same are incurred is made liable under this Ordinance
or by any agreement with the local authority, such expenses may
be recovered, together with interest at a rate not exceeding five
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per centum per annum from the date of service of a demand for the
same till payment thereof, from any person who is the owner of
such premises when the works are completed for which such
expenses have been incurred and, until recovery of such expenses
and interest, the same shall be a charge on the premises in respect
of which they were incurred. Such charge shall be deemed to be
prior and preferential to all existing or future charges or
encumbrances thereon, save and except charges for debts due to
the Crown and charges thereon in respect of other rates, charges,
or sums of money due to the Corporation of any City or Borough.
Offences
Recovery of 170. (1) All offences under this Ordinance may be prosecuted,
penalties, and
procedure. and all penalties, fines, forfeitures, costs, and expenses incurred
under this Ordinance or any regulations or bye-laws made
thereunder may be imposed or recovered in the manner provided
by the Summary Courts Ordinance.
(2) Any information or complaint for any offence against
the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations or bye-laws
made thereunder, for the breach whereof the Board or any local
authority may institute proceedings, may be laid or made in the name
of the Board or local authority by any officer or officers of such
Board or local authority authorised in that behalf by resolution of
the Board or local authority, either generally or in respect of offences
against certain provisions of this Ordinance or against certain
regulations or bye-laws to be named in such resolution; and any
officer or officers of the Board or any local authority, authorised in
that behalf by resolution of such Board or local authority, may
conduct the proceedings before the Magistrate in all cases where
the Board or local authority are complainants or defendants.
(3) All penalties and costs recovered from any persons
under this Ordinance or any regulations or bye-laws made
thereunder, in cases where any local authority are either
complainants or defendants, shall be recovered by the Magistrate
for the use of such local authority.
Penalties. (4) Any person who does any act in contravention of any
of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any bye-laws made under
this Ordinance, or who fails, neglects, or refuses to execute any work
or to do anything which he is required to do by virtue of any of the

provisions of this Ordinance or of any such bye-laws or of any order
or notice served upon him by a local authority by virtue of this
Ordinance, shall, unless some other penalty is provided therefor, be
liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars, and, in case of a continuing
offence, to a further fine of ten dollars for each day that such offence
is continued after written notice thereof from the local authority.
General Health Rate

171. (1) It shall be lawful for the local authority, with the General health
rate.
approval or by direction of the Board, from time to time as occasion
may require, to levy a rate to be called the “General Health Rate”
for the purpose of defraying any expenses incurred or paid or to be
incurred or paid by such local authority under this Ordinance, which
rate shall be assessed in the urban districts in like manner and with
like powers as a rate under Part V of the Port-of-Spain Corporation
Ordinance, and in the rural districts in like manner and with like
powers as a tax under the Lands and Buildings Taxes Ordinance,
may be assessed, levied, and recovered.
(2) Where any local authority is, by direction of the Board,
required to levy a health rate under this section, it shall be lawful
for the local authority to make the Governor in Council such
representations in regard thereto as such local authority may think
proper, and no such directions of the Board shall be binding on a
local authority unless and until the same shall have been approved
and confirmed by the Governor in Council.
172. All moneys received or recovered by any such local Moneys

recovered to be
authority in respect of any such general health rate, or from the carried to
author of any nuisance, or the owner of any premises, or in respect separate
account.
of any penalty under this Ordinance, shall be carried by such local
authority to a separate account; and it shall not be lawful for any
local authority to apply any such moneys to any purpose except
the carrying of this Ordinance into execution.
General
173. (1) Subject to the express provisions of this Ordinance, Authentication
of notices, etc.
notices, authorities, orders, and other such documents under this
Ordinance shall be in writing; and notices, authorities, and
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documents other than orders, when issued or given by the Board

or a local authority, shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by
the chairman or secretary of such Board or local authority, or if the
local authority consists of one person, then by such person.
(2) Orders shall be under the seal of the Board or of any
incorporated local authority duly authenticated, and in the case of
an unincorporated local authority, shall be under the hand of the
chairman thereof, or if such authority consists of one person, then
under the hand of such person.
Service of 174. It shall be sufficient in all cases where any notices, orders,
notices, etc.
accounts, or other documents are required to be given to or served
on or delivered to the owner or occupier of any premises to
address the same to such “owner” or occupier” (as the case may
be) of the premises (naming them) in respect of which such
notices, orders, accounts, or other documents are to be given,
served, or delivered, without further name or description; and if
required or authorised to be given, served, or delivered under
this Ordinance, may be given, served, or delivered by delivering
the same or a true copy thereof to or at the residence of the person
to whom they are respectively addressed, or, where addressed to
the “owner” or “occupier” thereof, to some person on the
premises, or, if there is no person on the premises who can be so
served, by fixing the same on some conspicuous part of the
premises; and they may also be served by sending the same
through the post by registered letter, and such registered letter
shall be deemed to have been received in the ordinary course of
post as if there had been delivery thereof.
Nuisance caused 175. Where any nuisance shall be caused by the joint act or
by, or existing
on, premises of default of two or more persons, or shall exist on the premises of
two or more
owners. two or more owners, it shall be sufficient to proceed against one or
more of them without proceeding against the others or other of
them; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the persons so
proceeded against from recovering contribution in any case in
which they would be entitled to contribution by law.
Proceedings not 176. Proceedings under this Ordinance against several persons
to abate by
reason of death. included in one complaint shall not abate by reason of the death
of any of the persons so included, but all such proceedings may

be continued against the survivors or survivor as if such deceased
person or persons had not been so included.
177. Whenever in any proceeding under this Ordinance, whether Owner of

premises need
written or otherwise, it shall become necessary to mention or refer not be otherwise
designated.
to the owner of any premises, it shall be sufficient to designate
him as the owner of such premises without name or
further description.
178. No order or other proceeding, matter, or thing made or Proceedings not

removable by
done in the execution of this Ordinance shall be removable by certiorari.
certiorari, or by any other writ or process whatsoever, into any
Court, or be vacated, quashed, or set aside for want of form.
179. Any person who deems himself aggrieved by any order Right of appeal.
made by a Magistrate under this Ordinance may, subject to the
provisions of the Summary Courts Ordinance relating to appeals,
and save as otherwise provided in this Ordinance, appeal there
from to the Supreme Court.
180. The Board, a local authority, a Medical Officer of Health, Protection of

authorities and
Sanitary Inspector, or other person acting under the authority or in their servants.
execution or intended execution of this Ordinance, shall be entitled
to such protection and privilege in actions and suits as any justice
is entitled to under the Magistrates Protection Ordinance.
181. The forms contained in the Second Schedule hereto or any Forms.
forms to the like effect, varied as circumstances may require, may
be used for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall be sufficient
for the purposes intended.
182. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be construed to Saving.

take away, affect, or diminish any right of action, or remedy by
criminal proceeding, to which any person would be entitled in
respect of any nuisance if this Ordinance had not been passed.
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SCHEDULES
(Sections 2 and FIRST SCHEDULE

81.)
OFFENSIVE TRADES
Blood or offal boiling or treating.
Bone boiling or crushing.
Candle making, where tallow is rendered on the premises.
Chemical or acid making.
Fellmongering.
Slaughtering.
Soap boiling.
Tanning.
Gut scraping.
Gut spinning.
Glue making.
Manure manufacturing.
The collection of house and street refuse.
SECOND SCHEDULE
FORM A
FORM OF NOTICE REQUIRING ABATEMENT OF NUISANCE.
To [person causing the nuisance, or owner or occupier of the premises at which

the nuisance exists, as the case may be].
Take Notice that under the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance, the
[describe the local authority] being satisfied of the existence at [describe
premises where the nuisance exists] of a nuisance being [describe the nuisance]
do hereby require you within [specify the time] from the service of this notice to
abate the same [and to execute such works and do such things as may be necessary
for that purpose, or and for that purpose to [specify any works to be executed],
[and the said [authority] do hereby require you within the said period to do
what is necessary for preventing the recurrence of the nuisance, and for that
purpose to, etc.].
Where the nuisance has been abated, but is likely to recur, say, being satisfied
that at, etc., there existed recently, to wit, on or about the .................. day of
.................... 20 ......... , the following nuisance, namely [describe nuisance],
and that although the said nuisance has since the last mentioned day been abated,
the same is likely to recur at the said premises, do hereby require you within
[specify time] to do what is necessary for preventing the recurrence of the
nuisance and for that purpose to, etc.
If you make default in complying with the requisitions of this notice, or if the
said nuisance, though abated, is likely to recur, a summons will be issued
requiring your attendance before a Magistrate to answer a complaint which will
be made for the purpose of enforcing the abatement of the nuisance, or prohibiting
the recurrence thereof, or both, and for recovering the costs and penalties that
may be incurred thereby.
Dated this ...................... day of ................, 20......
FORM B (Section 73.)
FORM OF SUMMONS
To A. B. of........................ [or to the owner or occupier of] [describe premises]

situated [insert such description of the situation as may be sufficient to identify
the premises].
You are required to appear before ............... Magistrate for ........... at .........
........... on ................. the ............... day of .................... , 20 ........, next at the
hour of ................. to answer the complaint this day made to me by
......................... that at the premises above mentioned [or at certain premises
situated at .................] in the district of the [describe the local authority] the
following nuisance exists [describe the nuisance and add, where the person
causing the nuisance is summoned,] and that the said nuisance is caused by the
act, default, or sufferance of you A. B.
Where the nuisance is discontinued, but is likely to be repeated, say, to answer
the complaint, etc., that at, etc., there existed recently, to wit, on or about the
............... day of .................... , 20 ........, the following nuisance [describe the
nuisance, and add, where the person causing the nuisance is summoned,] and
that the said nuisance was caused, etc., and although the said nuisance has since
the said last mentioned day been abated or discontinued, that the same or the
like nuisance is likely to recur at the said premises.
Dated this ...................... day of ................, 20......
Magistrate.
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(Section 73.) FORM C

FORM OF NUISANCE ORDER
To A. B. of ................................... [or to the owner or occupier of [describe
premises] situated [insert such description of the situation as may be sufficient
to identify the premises].
WHEREAS the said A. B. [or the owner or occupier of the said premises
within the meaning of the Public Health Ordinance] has this day appeared before
me to answer the matter of a complaint made by, etc., that at, etc., [follow the
words of complaint in summons] [or in case the party charged do not appear,
say, Whereas it has been now proved to my satisfaction that a summons has
been duly served according to the Public Health Ordinance, requiring the said
A. B. [or the owner or occupier of the said premises] to appear this day before
me to answer the matter of a complaint made by, etc., that at, etc.].
[Any of the following orders may be made or a combination of any of them as
the case seems to require.]
Now on proof here had before me that the nuisance so complained of does
exist at the said premises [add, where the order is made on the person causing
the nuisance, and that the same is caused by the act, default, or sufferance of
A. B.], I, in pursuance of the Public Health Ordinance, do order the said A. B.
[or the said owner or occupier] within [specify the time] from the service of this
order according to the said Ordinance [here specify the nuisance to be abated]
[and state any works to be executed].
Prohibition And I, being satisfied that, notwithstanding the said nuisance may be
Order No. 1. temporarily abated under this order, the same is likely to recur, do therefore
prohibit the said A. B. [or the said owner or occupier] from allowing the
recurrence of the said or a like nuisance [and for that purpose I direct the said
A. B., or the said owner or occupier, here specify any works to be executed].
Prohibition Now, on proof here had before me that at or recently before the time of making
Order No. 2
the said complaint, to wit, on ......................... the nuisance so complained of
did exist at the said premises, but that the same has since been abated [add,
where the order is made on the person causing the nuisance, and that the nuisance
was caused by the act, default, or sufferance of A. B.] yet, notwithstanding such
abatement, I, being satisfied that it is likely that the same or the like nuisance
will recur at the said premises, do therefore prohibit [continue as in Prohibition
Order No. 1].
Closing Order. Now, on proof here had before me that the nuisance is such as to render the
dwelling-house [describe the house] situated at [insert such a description of the
situation as may be sufficient to identify the dwelling-house] unfit in my judgment
for human habitation, I, in pursuance of the Public Health Ordinance, do hereby
prohibit the use of the said dwelling-house for human habitation.
Dated this ...................... day of ................, 20......
Magistrate.
FORM D (Section 75.)
FORM OF NUISANCE ORDER TO BE EXECUTED BY

LOCAL AUTHORITY
To the [describe the local authority].
WHEREAS a complaint has been made by .............. that a certain premises

situated at ............................... in the district of [describe the local authority]
the following nuisance exists [describe the nuisance].
And it has been now proved to my satisfaction that such nuisance exists, but
that no owner or occupier of the premises, or person by whose act, default, or
sufferance the nuisance is caused, is known or can be found [as the case may
be]: Now I, in pursuance of the Public Health Ordinance, do [continue as in any
of the orders in Form C with the substitution of the name of the local authority
for that of A. B. or the owner or occupier].
Dated this ...................... day of ................, 20......
Magistrate.
FORM E (Section 163.)
WARRANT OF JUSTICE FOR ENTRY TO PREMISES

WHEREAS A. B., being a person authorised under the Public Health
Ordinance to enter certain premises [describe the premises] has made application
to me to authorise the said A. B. to enter the said premises, and whereas I, C. D.,
am satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for such
entry, and that there has been a refusal or failure to admit to such premises, and
[either that reasonable notice of the intention to apply to a Magistrate for a
warrant has been given or that the giving of notice of the intention to apply to a
Magistrate for a warrant would defeat the object of the entry].
[Or am satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable cause to
believe that there is on the said premises a contravention of the Public Health
Ordinance, or of a bye-law made under that Ordinance, and that an application
for admission or notice of an application for a warrant would defeat the object
of the entry].
Now, therefore, I, the said C. D., do hereby authorise the said A. B. to enter
the said premises, and if need be by force, with such assistants as he may require,
and there execute his duties under the said Ordinance.
Dated this ...................... day of ................, 20.......
Justice of the Peace.
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(Section 94.) THIRD SCHEDULE
TABLES RELATING TO THE STORAGE OF

WATER IN BUILDINGS AND PLANTATIONS
The owner of any building or plantation described in the first columns of the
following Tables shall provide tanks to store the quantity of water specified in
the second columns of the said Tables in relation to the said buildings and
plantations respectively:—
TABLE I
Buildings in Village Quantity of water in
and Country Districts Imperial gallons
Each house used as a dwelling-house of more than

one storey and the rent or annual value of which
exceeds $48 … … … … … … 1,600
Each house used as a dwelling-house of one storey
only, or, if of more than one storey the rent or
annual value of which does not exceed $48, for
each room therein … … … … 100
Each house of which the different rooms are occupied
by different families or different persons not
members of the same family, for each room so
occupied … … … … … … 100
TABLE II
Description of Quantity of water in

Plantation Imperial gallons
Each plantation on which any quantity of sugar

exceeding fifty tons in weight and not exceeding
five hundred tons has been made during the
preceding year ... ... ... ... ... … 25,000
Each plantation on which any quantity of sugar of or
exceeding five hundred tons has been so made,
then, for every additional quantity of one hundred
tons of sugar or less so made, an additional … 2,500
Each plantation on which any quantity of cocoa
exceeding 100 bags of 168 lbs. net weight and not
exceeding 250 bags has been made during the
preceding year ... ... ... ... ... … 1,600
TABLE II—Continued
Description of Quantity of water in
Plantation Imperial gallons
Each plantation on which any quantity of cocoa
exceeding 250 bags of 168 lbs. net weight and not
exceeding 600 bags has been made during the
preceding year … … … … … 3,000
Each plantation on which any quantity of cocoa of or
exceeding 600 bags of 168 lbs. net weight has been
so made, then, for each additional quantity of 100
bags or less so made, an additional… … 400
Each plantation on which any quantity of coconuts
exceeding 200,000 in number and not exceeding
500,000 have been picked during the preceding
year … … … … … … 1,200
Each plantation on which any quantity of coconuts
exceeding 500,000 and not exceeding 1,000,000
has been so picked, then, for every additional
quantity of 100,000 nuts or less so picked, an
additional … … … … … … 150
FOURTH SCHEDULE* (Section 35.)

R.G. 9.5.35.
" 26.9.35.
PART “A” " 3.12.36.
" 11.2.37.
" 2.9.37.
1. Nariva-Mayaro District— " 8.9.38.
" 24.11.38
(a) D’Ades Settlement :— " 6.4.39.
All that area starting from a point a quarter of a mile north " 2.11.39.
" 25.4.40.
of the junction of the Tabaquite-Rio Claro Road and D’Ades " 15.4.43.
Local Road, thence in an easterly direction a quarter of a mile G.N. 247—
1945.
north of and parallel to the Tabaquite-Rio Claro Road to the G.N. 114—
western boundary of lands formerly of Adrien de Verteuil 1949.
G.N. 213—
thence in a southerly direction along the western boundary of 1949.
lands of Adrien de Verteuil to the north-eastern corner of the R.G. 29.6.50.
lands of Andre de Verteuil thence in a westerly direction along
the northern boundary of the lands of Adrien de Verteuil, thence
by a north-west line to the Government Railway, thence along
a north line to the Tabaquite-Rio Claro Road, thence by a
straight north-east line to the starting point.
* See Vol. 8, p. 498 for Streets and Buildings Bye-laws.
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(b) Guayaguayare Village:—

The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of
the Mayaro-Guayaguayare Road from the 641/2 mile post to
the 671/4 mile post.
(c) Fonrose Village:—
the Naparima-Mayaro Road from the 191/2 mile post to the
20th mile post.
(d) Lower Charuma :—
the Cunapo Southern Road from the 173/4 mile post to the
201/4 mile post.
(e) Mayaro:—
the Naparima-Mayaro Road from the Mafeking Junction at
the 381/2 mile post to the 401/2 mile post on the Beach.
(f) San Pedro Village:—
the San Pedro Road from its junction with the Tabaquite-Rio
Claro Road to the northern boundary of the Trinidad
Government Railway Reserve.
(g) Ecclesville Village:—
the Rio Claro-Mayaro Road from the Partingan Crown Trace
to the Mile-End-Local Road.
(h) The area comprised by a quarter of a mile on each side of the
Torrib-Tabaquite Road from the Trinidad Government Railway
Crossing on the North to the Poole River on the South.
(i) The area comprised by a quarter of a mile on each side of the
Brothers Railway Station Road from its junction with the
Torrib-Tabaquite Road to Brothers Railway Station including
Brothers Road Village.
(j) The area bounded as follows :—
North—A line quarter mile south of and parallel to the
Naparima-Mayaro Road.
South—The Grande Lagoon River.
East—The Sea.
West—A line parallel to and a quarter mile west of the new
Guayaguayare Road.
(k) Biche Village:—
The area comprised by a quarter of a mile on either side of
the Cunapo Southern Road from the 16th mile post to the point
where this road crosses the Nariva River.
(l) The area included within the following boundaries-known as

Brickfield Village:—
North—By the southern boundary of the Central Range
Reserve.
South—By the Trinidad Government Railway Reserve.
East—By a straight line running in a more or less south-
westerly direction from a point on the southern boundary of
the Central Range Reserve a quarter of a mile east of the Torrib-
Tabaquite Road to the northern boundary of the Trinidad
West—By a straight line running in a more or less south-
westerly direction from a point on the southern boundary of
the Central Range Reserve a quarter of a mile west of the
Torrib-Tabaquite Road to the northern boundary of the Trinidad
(m) The area including the Deep Ravine and Agostini Settlement
and bounded as follows:—
North—By the line north of, parallel to and a quarter of a
mile from the Naparima-Mayaro Road, beginning from the
point due north of the 28th mile post and terminating at the
point due north of the 30th mile post.
South—By the line south of, parallel to and a quarter of a
mile from the Naparima-Mayaro Road, beginning from the
point due south of the 28th mile post and terminating at the
point due south of the 30th mile post.
East—By the North and South line through the 30th mile
post joining the eastern extremities of the Northern and
Southern boundaries.
West—By the North and South line through the 28th mile
post and joining the western extremities of the Northern and
Southern boundaries.
(n) Lassalle Village.—Area bounded as follows:—
North—Crown Land.
South—Lassalle Road.
East—Crown Land, Lands of Soogea and Lassalle Road.
West—Crown Land.
(o) Ecclesville Road Settlement:-
Bounded on the north and west by lands now or formerly of
Ludwig Schoener comprising parcels of 274a. 1r. 34p. and
272a. 0r. 37p. On the east and south by lands now or formerly
of Francois Agostini comprising parcels of 249a. 1r. 5p. and
251a. 2r. 4p. and intersected by the Rio Claro-Mayaro Road.
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(p) Cushe Village bounded as follows:—

North—Crown Land.
South—Lassalle Road.
East—Crown Land, Lands of Soogea and Lassalle Road.
West—Crown Land.
(q) La Savanne Village bounded as follows:—
North—Lands of Victor Noel now heirs of Janvier.
South—Lands leased to Trinidad Leaseholds, Ltd.
East—Reserve for Extension of Settlement, lands leased to
Trinidad Leaseholds, Ltd., and lands of London John.
West—Lands leased to Trinidad Leaseholds, Ltd., and is
shown on a plan dated 27th July, 1934, of a survey made by
C. E. Laurie under Survey Order No. 57 of 1934 and filed in
the office of the Director of Surveys.
(r) Boos Settlement, situated on the Old Mayaro Road.
North—Wilhelm Schoener’s 328 acres, 3 roods, 10 perches,
now estate of J. E. Boos.
South—Wilhelm Schoener’s 243 acres, 6 perches, now
estate of J. E. Boos.
East—Wilhelm Schoener’s 243 acres, 6 perches, now estate
of J. E. Boos.
West—Wilhelm Schoener’s 328 acres, 3 roods, 10 perches,
now estate of J. F. Boos.
(s) The area bounded as follows:—
North—Tabaquite-Rio Claro Road.
South—Trinidad Government Railway Reserve, lands of
Mahomedally now heirs of Thos. Nelson, lands of Sakina
Niajun and Hasnally.
East—Road reserved running in a southerly direction from
Allotment 200A to Allotment 213A Brothers Road Settlement.
West—Tabaquite-Torrib Road and Brickfield Village.
(t) The area bounded by a line running due north from the 26th
mile post on the Naparima-Mayaro Road to a point a quarter of
a mile from the said mile post, thence running eastwards in a
direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the said road to
a point a quarter of a mile due north of the 271/2 mile post thence
running due south through the 271/2 mile post to a point a quarter
of a mile south of the road, thence running westwards in a
direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the road to a
point a quarter of a mile south of the 26th mile post, thence
running due north to return to the said mile post.
(u) The area bounded by a line running due north from the 291/4
mile post on the Naparima-Mayaro Road to a point a quarter of
a mile from the said mile post, thence running eastward in a
direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the said road to
a point a quarter of a mile due north of the 373/4 mile post, thence
running due south through the 373/4 mile post to a point a quarter
of a mile south of the road, thence running westward in a
direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the road to a
point a quarter of a mile south of the 291/4 mile post, thence
running due north to the said 291/4 mile post.
(v) All that area situated in the Nariva-Mayaro District starting from
a point on the 281/2 mile post on the Cunapo Southern Road,
thence in an easterly direction an eighth of a mile from the said
road, thence in a south-westerly direction and parallel to-the
Cunapo Southern Road to a point on the Tabaquite-Rio Claro
Road an eighth of a mile from its junction with the Cunapo
Southern Road, thence across the Tabaquite-Rio Ciaro Road in
a south-westerly direction an eighth of a mile from the said
road, thence in a north-westerly direction and parallel to the
said road to a point an eighth of a mile south-west of the 301/2
mile post, thence in a north-easterly direction to the 301/2 mile
post, thence in the same direction and parallel to the Cunapo
Southern Road to a point an eighth of a mile west of the 281/2
mile post, thence in an easterly direction to the starting point at
the 281/2 mile post.
2. Cedros District:—
(a) The area comprised by an eighth of a mile on both sides of the
Fullerton Road.
3. Naparima District:—
(a) All that area situated in the Naparima District starting from
a point at the junction of the San Fernando-Siparia-Erin and
the Dumfries Roads, thence in a southerly direction a quarter
of a mile south of the last mentioned junction thence in a
north-westerly direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile
from the Dumfries Road to the sea, thence in a north-easterly
direction along the coast to a point a quarter of a mile north
of Dumfries Road, thence in a south-easterly direction parallel
to and a quarter of a mile from the Dumfries Road to the
western side of the San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road, thence
in a southerly direction along the last mentioned Road to the
starting point at the junction of the Dumfries and San
Fernando Siparia-Erin Roads.
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(b) Jones Village partly in the Ward of Naparima and partly in the
Ward of Savana Grande area bounded as follows:—
North—By lands of Koobee now Sirju.
South—By a road reserved.
East—By lands of Samaroo.
West—By lands formerly of Oree now of Sirju.
(c) All that area situated in the Naparima District starting from a
point on the Guaracara-Tabaquite Road half of a mile east of
its junction with the Southern Main Road, thence in a north-
westerly direction a three-quarters of a mile from the junction,
thence in a north and easterly direction parallel to and a quarter
of a mile from the Guaracara-Tabaquite Road to the western
side of the Harmony Hall Road, thence in a southerly direction
to a point a quarter of a mile south of the Guaracara-Tabaquite
Road, thence in a south-easterly direction parallel to and a
quarter of a mile from the Guaracara-Tabaquite Road to a point
a quarter of a mile from the starting point, thence in a north-
westerly direction to the first mentioned point on the
Guaracara-Tabaquite Road.
(d) Duncan Village, Canaan Village, La Romaine Village and
Plaisance Village. The area bounded as follows:—
North—A line beginning from a point a quarter of a mile
due north-west of the 35 mile post on the Southern Main Road
and running in a direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile
from the Southern Main Road to a point a quarter of a mile
north of the 38.06 mile mark on that Road, thence in a due
west direction to meet the Southern Main Road.
South—A line beginning from a point a quarter of a mile
due south-east of the 35 mile mark on the Southern Main Road
and running in a direction parallel to and one quarter of a mile
from the Southern Main Road to meet the Concord Road.
East—A line running due north-east and south-west through
the 35 mile mark on the Southern Main Road.
West—The Concord Road, and the Southern Main Road.
(e) Debe Village. The area bounded as follows:—
North—A line passing through the 31/2 mile mark on the
San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road and running on the western
side of that road in a direction parallel to the Debe Trace, and
on the eastern side of the said road in a direction parallel to
the Trinidad Government Railway Line.
South—The Suchit Trace and the Mohess Trace.
East—A line running southwards from the northern
boundary in a direction parallel to and a half of a mile from
the San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road to meet the Mohess Trace.
West—A line running southwards from the northern

boundary in a direction parallel to and a half of a mile from
the San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road to meet the Suchit Trace.
(f) Esperance Village, Mowasee Village, Diamond Village, Picton
Village, Wellington Village, Monkey Town Village and
Barrackpore Village. The area bounded as follows:—
North—A line beginning from a point a quarter of a mile
north of the junction of the San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road
with the Papoure Road and running parallel to and a quarter
of a mile from and north of the Papoure Road to meet the
Cipero Road.
South—A line beginning from a point on the San Fernando-
Siparia-Erin Road a quarter of a mile from its junction with
the Papoure Road and running parallel to and a quarter of a
mile from and south of the Papoure Road to meet the St. Croix
Road.
East—The Cipero Road and the St. Croix Road.
West—The San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road and a line a
quarter of a mile long running in a due north direction from
the junction of the San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road with the
Papoure Road.
4. Point Fortin District:—

(a) Point Fortin Private Road—The area comprised by a quarter
of a mile on either side of the road from its junction with the
Guapo-Cap-de-Ville Road.
(b) Parry Lands Road—The area comprising an eighth of a mile
on either side of the Parry Lands Road from its junction with
the Southern Main Road to the Eastern boundary of the Crown
Lands leased to the Trinidad Central Oilfields, Limited.
(c) Parry Lands Village.—Situated on the Southern side of Lot 10
Road (United British Oilfields of Trinidad Limited) a half mile
from the junction with the Parry Lands Road and bounded:—
On the North—By Crown Lands under lease to the Trinidad
Central Oilfields.
On the South—By Crown Lands under lease to the United
British Oilfields of Trinidad Ltd.
On the East—By Crown Lands under lease to the United
British Oilfields of Trinidad Ltd., in the Morne L’Enfer
Reserve.
On the West—By Crown Lands under lease to the United
British Oilfields of Trinidad Ltd.
L.R.O.
(d) Point Ligoure—All that area enclosed by an imaginary line

starting from a point an eighth of a mile in a southerly direction
from the 2 mile post on the Guapo-Cap-de-Ville Road and
measured at right angles to the said road, thence by a straight
line in a northerly direction through the said mile post and
projected to the sea coast, thence in a north-easterly direction
to a point, which if a straight line were drawn from it through
the 31/4 mile post the said line would be at right angles to. the
said road, thence from the last mentioned point by a straight
line through the 31/4 mile post in a south-easterly direction
and projected to a point an eighth of a mile from the Guapo
Cap-de-Ville Road, thence in a south-westerly direction an
eighth of a mile from the said road to the starting point.
(e) Vance River—All that area enclosed by an imaginary line
starting from a point a quarter of a mile in an easterly direction
from the 521/4 mile post on the Southern Main Road and
measured at right angles to the said road, thence in a westerly
direction through the said mile post and projected to a point
an eighth of a mile from the said road, thence in a northerly
direction an eighth of a mile from the Southern Main Road to
a point, which if a straight line were drawn from it through the
513/4 mile post, the said line would be at right angles to the
said road, thence from the last mentioned point by a straight
line through the 513/4 mile post and projected to a point a quarter
of a mile from the Southern Main Road, thence in a southerly
direction a quarter of a mile from the said road to the
starting point.
(f) Gonzales—All that area enclosed by an imaginary line starting
from a point an eighth of a mile in a westerly direction from
the 541/4 mile post on the Southern Main Road and measured
at right angles to the said road, thence in an easterly direction
through the said mile post and projected to a point an eighth
of a mile from the said road, thence in a southerly direction an
eighth of a mile from the Southern Main Road to a point, which
if a straight line were drawn from it through the 551/4 mile
post, the said line would be at right angles to the said road,
thence from the last mentioned point by a straight line through
the 551/4 mile post and projected to a point an eighth of a mile
from the Southern Main Road, thence in a northerly direction
an eighth of a mile from the said road to the starting point.
(g) Guapo Village—All that area starting from a point on the sea
coast thence continuing in a north-easterly direction along the
coast to a point a quarter of a mile east of the La Retraite
Road, thence in a south-easterly direction a quarter of a mile
and parallel to the last mentioned road to the Southern Main

Road, thence along the last mentioned road to the junction of
the Southern Main Road and the La Retraite Road thence
continuing in a south-westerly direction along the Southern
Main Road a quarter of a mile from this junction, thence in a
north-westerly direction a quarter of a mile and parallel to the
La Retraite Road to the starting point on the sea.
(h) Cap-de-Ville—All that area starting from the 2nd mile post to
a point a quarter of a mile south of the said mile post, thence
in a south-westerly direction a quarter of a mile and parallel to
the Cap-de-Vile Road thence in a south-easterly direction a
quarter of a mile and parallel to the Erin Road, thence in a
south-westerly direction through the junction of the Southern
Main Road and the Erin Road to a point a quarter of a mile
west of the junction of the Southern Main Road and the Erin
Road, thence in a north-westerly direction a quarter of a mile
and parallel to the Erin Road to the coast, thence along the sea
coast to a point due north of the 2nd mile post to the
starting point.
(i) Salazar Trace—All that area starting from a point a quarter a
mile from the junction of the Southern Main Road and Salazar
Trace, thence in a north-easterly direction to a point a quarter
of a mile distant from the Salazar Trace, thence in a south-
easterly direction a quarter of a mile and parallel to the Salazar
Trace to a point a quarter of a mile from the 2nd mile post,
thence in a southerly direction through the 2nd mile post to a
point a quarter of a mile south of the last mentioned mile post,
thence in a north-westerly direction a quarter of a mile and
parallel to the Salazar Trace in a north-easterly direction to
the starting point.
(j) Southern Main Road—All that area starting from a point at
the junction of the Southern Main Road and the Erin Road,
thence in a north-easterly direction to a point of a quarter of a
mile from the Southern Main Road, thence in an easterly
direction a quarter of a mile and parallel to the Southern Main
Road to the Point Fortin Private Road, thence along the last
mentioned road through the junction and along the Southern
Main Road to a point a quarter of a mile east of the junction,
thence in a south-easterly direction a quarter of a mile and
parallel to the Southern Main Road to a point a quarter of a
mile from the junction of the Southern Main Road and the
Erin Road to the starting point.
L.R.O.
5. Brighton-La Brea District

(a) Old La Brea Village comprising the area in the Rural District
of Brighton-La Brea exclusive of the New La Brea Village,
No. 16 of Part “ B”.
(b) Cochrane Village comprising the area a quarter of a mile on
each side of the Southern Main Road from the 53rd mile post
to its junction with the La Retraite at the 54th mile post.
6. Ortoire-Moruga District:—
(a) The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of the
Naparima-Mayaro Road from the junction of the Moruga to
the junction of the Torrib-Tabaquite Road, comprising the
Village of New Grant, partly in the Ward of Savana Grande
and partly in the Ward of Ortoire.
(b) The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of the
Naparima-Mayaro Road from its junction with the Torrib-
Tabaquite Road to the Poole River including the villages of
Elswick, Tableland and Roberts.
(c) The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of the
Moruga Road from its junction with the Naparima-Mayaro
Road to the 71/2 mile post including the villages of Indian Walk,
3rd Company, 5th Company and St. Mary.
(d) The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of the
Moruga Road from the 13th to the 15th mile post including
the villages of Basseterre and Jhan Jan.
(e) The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of the
Moruga Road from the 161/2 mile post to the sea comprising
the Moruga Village.
(f) Guarapiche Village in the Ward of Ortoire, area bounded as
follows:—
North—By lands of Koobee now Sirju.
South—By a road reserved.
East—By lands of Samaroo.
West—By lands formerly of Oree now of Sirju.
7. Erin-Siparia District:—
(a) Penal-Rock Road—The area comprised by an eighth of a mile
on either side from its junction with the Erin Road to the
8.5 mile post.
(b) Fyzabad Branch Road—The area comprised by an eighth of a
mile on either side from its junction with the Fyzabad-Guapo
Road to its junction with the La Brea-Siparia Trace.
(c) Guapo-Cap-de-Ville Road—The area comprised by an eighth.

of a mile on either side from the sea to its junction with the
Erin Road.
(d) Erin Road-The area comprised by an eighth of a mile on either
side of the Erin Road.
(e) Palo Seco Village—The area recently surveyed by the
Government and known as the Palo Seco Village Reserve,
intersected by the Palo Seco Road and bounded on the north,
south, east and west by Crown Lands.
(f) The Fyzabad Branch Road—The area comprised by a half of
a mile on either side of the Fyzabad Branch Road from its
junction with the Fyzabad-Guapo Road to its junction with
the La Brea-Siparia Trace.
(g) The Trinidad Leaseholds Private Road—The area comprised
by a half of a mile on either side of the Trinidad Leaseholds
Private Road from its junction with the Fyzabad Branch Road
and the Fyzabad-Guapo Road to its termination in the Morne
L’Enfer Reserve.
(h) The area included by a line beginning from the southern
boundary of the Siparia Village with the lands of Concession
Rangel and running due east till it reaches a point a quarter of
a mile from the Coora Road, then turning southwards and
running parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the Coora
Road till it meets the Coora Branch Road, then turning
westwards and running along the Coora Branch Road till it
reaches the junction of that road with the Coora Road then
running due west till it reaches a point a quarter of a mile from
the Coora Road then turning northwards and running parallel
to and a quarter of a mile from the Coora Road till it reaches a
point due west of the boundary between the Siparia Village
and the lands of Concession Rangel, then running due east to
the starting point on the Coora Road.
(i) The area an eighth of a mile on either side of the following
roads, viz.:—
1. Southern Main Road—from the 413/4 mile post to the
563/4 mile post.
2. San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road—from the 51/2 mile
post to the Erin Road.
3. Siparia Road—from St. Mary’s Village Oropuche to
the Siparia Village.
4. Fyzabad Road—from the Siparia Road to the Fyzabad-
Guapo Road.
5. Fyzabad-Guapo Road—from the Siparia Road to the
Fyzabad Branch Road.
L.R.O.
(j) San Francique Road—All that area surrounded by a line

starting from the junction of the San Francique Road and the
Siparia Road, thence in a northerly direction an eighth of a
mile along the Siparia Road, thence in an easterly direction an
eighth of a mile and parallel to the San Francique Road to the
San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road, thence in a south-westerly
direction along the last mentioned road past its junction with
the San Francique Road to a point an eighth of a mile south of
the said junction, thence in a westerly direction an eighth of a
mile south and parallel to the San Francique Road to a point
on the Siparia Road thence in a northerly direction to the
starting point.
(k) Morne Diablo Road—All that area surrounded by a line
starting from the junction of the Morne Diablo and Penal Rock
Roads, thence in north-easterly direction to a point an eighth
of a mile along the last mentioned road thence in a southerly
direction an eighth of a mile east and parallel to the Morne
Diablo Road to a point on the northern boundary of the
Southern Watershed Reserve thence in a westerly direction
along the said Reserve across the Morne Diablo Road to a
point an eighth of a mile west of the said Road, thence in a
northerly direction an eighth of a mile to the west and parallel
to the last mentioned road to a point on the Penal Rock Road,
thence in a north-easterly direction along the last mentioned
road to the starting point.
(l) Scott’s Trace—All that area surrounded by a line starting from
a point at the first mile post on the Scott’s Trace, thence in a
northerly direction to a point an eighth of a mile north of the
said mile post, thence in an easterly direction an eighth of a
mile to the north and parallel to Scott’s Trace to a point on the
Morne Diablo Road area thence in a southerly direction along
a portion of the western boundary of the Morne Diablo Road
area across Scott’s Trace to a point an eighth of a mile south
of the said Trace, thence in a westerly direction an eighth of a
mile to the south and parallel to the last mentioned Trace, to a
point an eighth of a mile south of the first mile post, thence in
a northerly direction to the starting point.
8. Ste. Madeleine District:-

Ste. Madeleine Village—
North—By lands of Ne Plus Ultra Estate.
South—By the Cipero River and Corinth Estate.
East—By lands of Ste. Madeleine Estate.
West—By lands of Corinth Estate.
9. Savana Grande District:-

(a) The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of the
Naparima-Mayaro Road from the 33/4 mile post to the western
boundary of Princes Town, comprising the villages of Mount
Stewart, Cleghorn, Friendship, Iere, Nagir and Malgretoute,
partly in the Ward of Naparima and partly in the Ward of
Savana Grande.
(b) The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of the
Naparima-Mayaro Road, from the eastern boundary of Princes
Town to the junction of the Moruga Road, comprising the
villages of Broomage, Fairfield, Craignish and St. Julien in
the Ward of Savana Grande.
(c) The area bounded by a quarter of a mile on either side of the
Manahambre Road, from the junction of the St. Charles Local
Road to the Western boundary of Princes Town, comprising
the villages of St. Charles, Chirkoot and Cedar Hill in the Ward
of Naparima.
(d) All that area in the Savana Grande District starting from a
point at the junction of the Guaracara-Tabaquite and Garth
Roads, thence in a westerly direction 11/4 of a mile from the
first mentioned point, thence in a northerly and easterly
direction a quarter of a mile from and parallel to the Guaracara-
Tabaquite Road to a point a quarter of a mile from the junction
of the Sisters and Guaracara-Tabaquite Roads, thence in a
southerly direction to a point a quarter of a mile south of the
last mentioned junction, thence in a westerly and southerly
direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the Guaracara-
Tabaquite Road to a point a quarter of a mile east of the junction
of the Garth and Guaracara-Tabaquite Roads, thence in a
westerly direction along the northern side of the Garth Road
to the first mentioned point at the junction of the Guaracara-
Tabaquite and Garth Roads.
(e) The area comprised by a quarter of a mile on each side of the
Manahambre Road from St. Charles junction to Ste. Madeleine
Village, and from Ste. Madeleine Village to the junction of
Manahambre Road with the Naparima-Mayaro Road.
(f) Jones Village partly in the Ward of Naparima and partly in the
Ward of Savana Grande—Area bounded as follows:—
North—By lands of Tabul and Ranchoo.
South—By Kanhai Trace and Laurious Trace.
East—By lands of Ramgerib.
West—By Kanhai Trace.
L.R.O.
(g) All that area situated in the Savana Grande District starting
from a point at the junction of the Sisters and Guaracara-
Tabaquite Roads, thence in a northerly direction a quarter of a
mile from the last mentioned point, thence in a south-easterly
direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the Sisters
Road to a point a quarter of a mile from the junction of the
Guaracara-Tabaquite and Intento Branch Roads, thence in a
south-westerly direction to a point a quarter of a mile south of
the Sisters Road thence in a north-westerly direction parallel
to and a quarter of a mile from the Sisters Road, thence to a
point a quarter of a mile from the junction of the Guaracara-
Tabaquite and Sisters Roads, thence in a northerly direction
to the starting point at the last mentioned junction.
(h) All that area situated in the Savana Grande District starting
from a point at the junction of the Harmony Hall Road and the
Bonne Aventure Road, thence in a northerly direction a quarter
of a mile from the junction, thence in an easterly direction
parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the Bonne Aventure
Road to a point a quarter of a mile north of the junction of the
last mentioned Road and Lumsden Street, thence in a southerly
direction to the said junction, thence to a point a quarter of a
mile from the said junction along the western side of Lumsden
Street, thence in a westerly direction parallel to and a quarter
of a mile from the Bonne Aventure Road to the Harmony Hall
Road, thence in a northerly direction along the eastern side of
the last mentioned Road to the starting point at the junction of
the Bonne Aventure Road and the Harmony Hall Road.
10. Scarborough (Tobago) District :—

The area surrounded by a line beginning from the sea and
running in a due north direction through the Bridge on the
Milford Road over the Lambeau River to a point 50 chains
away from the Bridge; thence running in a straight line to the
junction of Providence Road and Northside Road which is
about a quarter of a mile north of Government House; thence
running in a straight line to a point quarter mile due east of the
junction of the Calder Hall and Friendsfield Roads; thence
running due south to the sea; thence running along the sea to
the starting point south of Lambeau Bridge—save and except
the Town of Scarborough as defined at No. 8 of Part “B” to
this Schedule.
11. Pointe-a-Pierre District:—

From the junction of the Cedar Hill Road and the Southern
Main Road, by a line due west to the Sea coast to the mouth of
the Guaracara River, thence by the right bank of the Guaracara
River to a point a half of a mile due east of the Southern Main

Road and thence by a line running northwards parallel to and
a half of a mile east of the Southern Main Road to the Cedar
Hill Road, and thence by the Cedar Hill Road to the first
mentioned point.
12. St. Andrew District:-

(a) Sangre Grande Village:—
North—The Eastern Main Road from Cunapo River bridge
to the north-western corner of James Park (10 acres, 0 roods,
6 perches), then along the northern boundary of James Park,
and along parts of the western and northern boundaries of
lands of Antonio Mieres (10 acres, 0 roods, 14 perches),
George Farley (10 acres, 1 rood, 36 perches) and Charles
Crump (10 acres, 0 roods, 22 perches) to the Sangre Grande
River.
East—along the Sangre Grande River to the bridge on the
Eastern Main Road.
South—From the Sangre Grande River bridge on the
Eastern Main Road by a line running in a westerly direction
along the southern boundary of lands of J. H. Martin (64 acres,
2 roods, 23 perches) to the south-western corner of this parcel.
West—From the last mentioned point along the eastern
boundary of lands of Antonio Mieres (28 acres) and thence
by a straight line to the Cunapo River Bridge.
(b) Guaico Village:—
North—The Railway line.
South—The Cunapo River.
East—By the Picton Trace to the Eastern Main Road and
thence by a line due south to the Cunapo River.
West—The western boundary of lands of J. H. Damroa
and by a line drawn south to the Cunapo River.
(c) Ramoutar Village:—
North—By the street running parallel to and 525 feet north
of Ramoutar Village Street.
South—By Ramoutar Village Street.
East—By Sellier Crown Trace.
West—Picton Crown Trace.
(d) All that area enclosed by an imaginary line starting from a
point in the middle of the Sangre Grande River a quarter of a
mile in a north-easterly direction from the intersection of the
L.R.O.
Sangre Grande River Bridge and the Eastern Main Road thence
from the said point in a south-easterly direction and a quarter
of a mile from the Eastern Main Road to the sea, thence in a
southerly direction along the sea coast to a point a quarter of a
mile south of the Eastern Main Road, thence in a north-westerly
direction a quarter of a mile from the said road to a point in
the middle of the Sangre Grande River thence in a north-
easterly direction along the middle of the Sangre Grande River
to the first mentioned point.
(e) All that area enclosed by an imaginary line starting from a
point a quarter of a mile in a south-easterly direction from the
21/4 mile post on the Plum Mitan Road and measured at right
angles to the said road thence by a straight line in a north-
westerly direction through the said 21/4 mile post and projected
to a point a quarter of a mile from the Plum Mitan Road, thence
in a northerly direction from the last mentioned point a quarter
mile from the said road to a point a quarter of a mile from the
Eastern Main Road, thence in an easterly direction a quarter
of a mile from the Eastern Main Road to a point quarter of a
mile from the Plum Mitan Road, thence from the last mentioned
point in a southerly direction a quarter of a mile from the Plum
Mitan Road to the first mentioned point.
(f) All that area enclosed by an imaginary line starting from a point
a quarter of a mile in a south-easterly direction from the three-
quarter mile post on the St. Isidore Road and measured at right
angles to the said road thence by a straight line in a north-westerly
direction through the said three-quarter mile post and projected
to a point a quarter of a mile from the St. Isidore Road thence in
an easterly direction a quarter of a mile from the St. Isidore
Road to a point a quarter mile from the Plum Mitan Road, thence
in a southerly direction a quarter of a mile from the last
mentioned road to a point a quarter of a mile from and measured
at right angles to the said road at the 21/4 mile post, thence in a
straight line towards the said 21/4 mile post on the Plum Mitan
Road to a point a quarter of a mile from the St. Isidore Road,
thence in a westerly direction a quarter of a mile from the St.
Isidore Road to the starting point.
(g) All that area enclosed by an imaginary line starting from a
point a quarter of a mile in a south-easterly direction from the
10 mile post on the Toco Main Road and measured at right
angles to the said road thence by a straight line in a north-
westerly direction through the said 21/4 mile post and projected
to a point a quarter of a mile from the said road thence from
the last mentioned point in a northerly direction a quarter of a

mile from the said road to a point in the centre of the Matura
River where the said line intersects the Matura River nearest
the Matura River Bridge thence from the last mentioned point
along the middle of the Matura River in a south-easterly
direction to a point a quarter of a mile from the Toco Main
Road thence from the last mentioned point in a south-westerly
direction a quarter of a mile from the Toco Main Road to the
first mentioned point.
(h) All that area enclosed by an imaginary line starting from a
point a quarter of a mile in an easterly direction from the 3 mile
post on the Toco Main Road and measured at right angles to
the said road thence by a straight line in a westerly direction
through the said 3 mile post and projected to a point a quarter
of a mile from the said road thence in a south-westerly direction
a quarter of a mile from the said road to the boundary of the
Town of Sangre Grande as defined in Proclamation No. 14 of
1927 thence in a southerly direction along the town boundary
to a point a quarter of a mile from the Toco Main Road thence
in a north-easterly direction a quarter of a mile from the said
road to the first mentioned point.
(i) All that area enclosed by an imaginary line starting from a
point a quarter of a mile west of the 1st mile post on the Cunapo
Southern Road and measured at right angles to the said road
thence by a straight line in an easterly direction through the
said mile post and projected to a point a quarter of a mile from
the said road thence from the last mentioned point in a southerly
direction a quarter of a mile from the said road to a point which
if a straight line were projected at right angles to the said road
the said line would pass through the 23/4 mile post thence from
the last mentioned point by a straight line through the 23/4 mile
post and projected to a point a quarter of a mile in a westerly
direction of the said road thence from the last mentioned point
in a northerly direction a quarter of a mile from the said road
to the first mentioned point.
(j) All that area enclosed within a line starting from a monument
marking the north-eastern corner of the El Carmen Estate on
the Eastern Main Road about the one-sixth part of a mile west
of the junction of the Eastern Main and the Valencia Roads
thence due north for a little over half a mile along the eastern
boundary of the area known as the Cumuto Area leased to the
United States Government to a point due west of the north-
western corner of the Valencia Village Reserve thence due east
to the said corner and along the northern boundary of the said
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Village Reserve and proceeding due east across the Quare Road
to the right bank of the Quare River thence in a southerly
direction along the right bank of the Quare River to the Valencia
Road thence along the south side of this road to the north-
eastern corner of the 4 acres 3 roods and 33 perches parcel
originally granted to Bernadino Boneo, thence along the eastern
and southern boundaries of the said parcel to the boundary of
the Long Stretch Reserve thence in a westerly direction along
the boundary of this Reserve across the Oropouche Road to
the Eastern Main Road thence following the boundary of the
said Reserve in a south-easterly direction along the Eastern
Main Road and along the south-westerly boundaries of the
18 acres 2 roods 27 perches parcel originally granted to
Clarence Jacelon and the 18 acres 1 rood 31 perches parcel
originally granted to John F. Wallen and thence in a south-
westerly direction along the southern side of the Eastern Main
Road to the starting point.
13. St. David District:-

(a) Redhead Village:—
North—By Anglais Road and lands of Aanensen.
South—By lands of J. Arthur, P. Magloire and M. Abraham.
East—By Old Toco Main Road.
West—By lands of M. Douglas, M. Abraham and
S. W illiam.
(b) Matelot Village:—
The area bounded by a line running from the North-western
corner of the parcel containing 19 acres, 1 rood, 7 perches,
originally granted to Santiago Salavaria, along the western
boundary of this parcel to a point an eighth of a mile south of
the Paria Main Road thence by a line running parallel to and
an eighth of a mile south of the Paria Main Road to the Matelot
River thence by the right bank of this river to the Sea and
thence by the Sea to the first mentioned point.
(c) Grande Riviere Village:—
The area bounded by a line running due south from the north-
eastern corner of the parcel containing 4 acres, 0 roods,
6 perches, originally granted to Charles Fabien, for a distance
of 26 chains thence by a mile running due east to the Mapepire
River thence by the left bank of the Mapepire River and the
Grande Riviere River to the Sea thence by the Sea to the first
mentioned point.
(d) Sans Souci Village:—

The area bounded by a line running from the north-western
corner of the Woodford Valley Estate along the western and
southern boundaries of this Estate thence by a line running
due east from the south-eastern corner of this Estate for a
distance of five chains thence by a line running due north to
the Sea and thence by the Sea to the first mentioned point.
(e) L’Anse Noire Village:—
The area bounded by a line running from the north-eastern
corner of the parcel containing 13 acres, 3 roods, 19 perches,
originally granted to Rosalie Guzman, along the eastern
boundary of this parcel to a point one-tenth of a mile south of
the Paria Main Road thence by a line running parallel to and
one-tenth of a mile south of the Paria Main Road to the eastern
boundary of the parcel containing 16 acres originally granted
to Luc Bruno, thence by the eastern boundary of this parcel to
the Sea and thence by the Sea to the first mentioned point.
(f) Toco Village:—
The area comprised within and bounded by a line starting
from the mouth of the Toco River and proceeding in a north-
easterly direction along the coast line to the mouth of the ravine
passing through lands of E. Moniquette, thence along this
ravine to the eastern boundary of E. Moniquette, thence in an
easterly direction through lands of Heirs, of E. Moniquette to
the north-western corner of lands originally granted to John
A. Barker thence eastwards along the northern boundaries of
John A. Barker, Jones T. Bernard, Philip Simeon, V. E.
Desormeaux and A. N. Desormeaux, thence along the eastern
boundary along the northern, eastern and southern boundary
of Petit Trou Village to the north-eastern boundary of McLean
Samerson and along his western boundary, thence westwards
along the southern boundaries of Mary Ann Ottley and
Clemence Hay and across the lands of the Heirs of Moniquette
and Solitude Legere in a straight line to the south-east corner
of John T. Jameson 10 acres, 1 rood, 18 perches thence
proceeding west along the southern boundary of this parcel
and along the southern boundary of the parcel containing
11 acres, 35 perches originally granted to J. E. Redhead and
along a line due west to the Toco River and thence along the
Toco River to the Sea.
14. Chaguanas District:—

(a) Area bounded as follows:—
North—The Honda River.
East—A line running north and south 360 feet east of the
bridge on the Southern Main Road over the Honda River.
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West—By a line starting from the junction of St. Yves and

Rene Streets, Chaguanas, running due north to the Biljah Road,
thence in a westerly direction along the Biljah Road to its
junction with the Caroni Savannah Road, thence running in a
southerly direction along a straight line from the last mentioned
junction to the north-west corner of the most westerly part of
the Burial Ground at St. Thomas’ Village, thence in a southerly
direction along the estate trace bounding on the west of the
said Cemetery to the Caparo River, thence in an easterly
direction along the Caparo River to a point due south of the
starting point, thence in a straight line to the starting point.
South—A line running east and west north of the 13 mile
post on the Southern Main Road.
(b) Montrose Village:—
North—By a line drawn from a point on the boundary line
between Endeavour and Montrose Estates, 500 feet north of
the Chaguanas Main Road in an easterly direction to a Trace
passing through lands of John Langton (48 acres).
East—By a line from the eastern end of the northern
boundary in a southerly direction along a Trace passing through
lands of John Langton to the Caparo River.
South—The northern bank of the Caparo River.
West—By a line drawn from the Caparo River in a northerly
direction along the boundary between Endeavour and Montrose
Estates till it meets the northern boundary at a point 500 feet
north of the Chaguanas Main Road.
(c) Longdenville Village:—
North—By a line starting at a point 500 feet north of the
Caparo Valley Road in a Trace in the lands of John Langton,
and running eastwards parallel to the Caparo Valley Road and
terminating at the point where it meets the Railway Reserve.
East—By a straight line running from the last mentioned
point to the Bridge on the Caparo Valley Road near the north-
eastern corner of the lands originally granted to Fermin Carrera,
thence by a line due south to a point 500 feet from the Caparo
Valley Road.
South—By a line running from the last mentioned point in
a direction parallel to and at a distance of 500 feet from the
Caparo Valley Road to a point in the lands of Henry Carraciolo
(32 acres, 1 rood, 11 perches) parallel to and 500 feet south of
the Caparo Valley Road, thence along a line parallel to and
500 feet south of the Caparo Valley Road to the Caparo River.
West—By a line running along the Caparo River for a

distance of 500 feet, and thence in a northerly direction to the
starting point of the northern boundary, 500 feet north of the
Caparo Valley Road.
(d) Cunupia Village:—
North—By a line running from the south-western corner of
George Thomas (10 acres) along the southern boundary of
that parcel to a point 500 feet west of the Southern Main Road,
thence by a line running in a northerly direction parallel to
and 500 feet west of the Southern Main Road to a point in the
northern boundary of the lands granted to St. Luce Bellony,
thence along the northern boundary of the said lands to the
junction of the Southern Main Road and the Chin Chin Road;
and from this junction by the Chin Chin Road to a point
500 feet east of the said junction.
East—From the last mentioned point by a line running in a
southerly direction parallel to the Southern Main Road through
lands originally granted to Andrew Pierre, John Rickson and
Lucien Joseph, and terminating in the southern boundary of
Lucien Joseph.
South—From the last mentioned point by a straight line
running along the southern boundary of the lands of Lucien
Joseph across the Southern Main Road and extended to the
western boundary of lands originally granted to Baboo
Ram densing (41 acres, 2 roods, 36 perches).
West—By lands running in a southerly direction from the
south-western corner of lands of George Thomas’ (10 acres)
to the north-western corner of Baboo Ramdensing’s lands
(41 acres, 2 roods, 36 perches) and thence along the western
boundary of the said lands.
(e) The area bounded by a line starting at a point on the Southern
Main Road an eighth of a mile from and west of its junction
with the Caparo Valley-Brasso Road and running in a northerly
direction parallel to and an eighth of a mile from the Southern
Main Road to meet the Warren Road thence running in an
easterly direction along the Warren Road to its junction with
the Southern Main Road and continuing due east to a point an
eighth of a mile from the said junction, thence running in a
southerly direction parallel to and an eighth of a mile from the
Southern Main Road to meet the Caparo Valley-Brasso Road,
thence running in a westerly direction along the last mentioned
road to its junction with the Southern Main Road, thence along
the Southern Main Road to the starting point an eighth of a
mile west of the last mentioned junction.
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(f) All that area situated in the Chaguanas District surrounded by

a line starting from a point on the Caparo River an eighth of a
mile west of its junction with the Southern Main Road, thence
in an easterly direction along the left bank of the Caparo River
to a point an eighth of a mile east of the said junction, thence
in southerly direction and parallel to the Southern Main Road
to a point an eighth of a mile east of its junction with the
Freeport Road, thence in a westerly direction along the northern
side of the said road to its junction with the Southern Main
Road to a point an eighth of a mile west of its junction with
the Freeport Road, thence in a northerly direction and parallel
to the Southern Main Road to the first mentioned point on the
Caparo River.
(g) All that area situated in the Chaguanas District surrounded by
a line starting from a point on the Southern Main Road an
eighth of a mile west of its junction with the Freeport Road,
thence in a north-westerly direction along the northern side of
the Waterloo Road straight to the sea, thence in a northerly
direction a quarter of a mile along the coast, thence in an
easterly direction a quarter of a mile north and parallel to the
Waterloo Road, to a point a quarter of a mile north of the
junction of the Waterloo and Orange Field Roads, thence in a
southerly direction to a point an eighth of a mile north of the
junction of the Waterloo and Orange Field Roads, thence an
eighth of a mile north and parallel to the last mentioned road
to a point an eighth of a mile west of the Southern Main Road,
thence in a southerly direction an eighth of a mile west and
parallel to the said road to the first mentioned point on the
Southern Main Road.
(h) All that area situated in the Chaguanas District starting from a
point on the south side of the Southern Main Road at its
junction with the Caroni River, thence in a south-easterly
direction along the southern side of the Southern Main Road
and the Caroni Road to a point an eighth of a mile east of the
junction of the Southern Main Road and the Caroni River,
thence in a southerly direction an eighth of a mile east and
parallel to the Southern Main Road to a point an eighth of a
mile east of the junction of the Southern Main Road and the
Warren Road, thence in a westerly direction to the last
mentioned junction, thence in a westerly direction along the
northern side of the Warren Road to a point an eighth of a mile
from the Southern Main Road, thence in a northerly direction
an eighth of a mile west and parallel to the Southern Main
Road to a point an eighth of a mile south of the Southern Main
Road, thence in a northwesterly, direction an eighth of a mile

south and parallel to the Southern Main Road to a point an
eighth of a mile south of the junction of the Southern Main
Road and the Caroni River, thence in a northerly direction to
the first mentioned point.
(i) All that area situated in the Chaguanas District starting from a
point on the southern side of the junction of the Southern Main
Road and the Caroni Road, thence in a northerly direction along
the right side of an estate trace to the left bank of the Caroni
River approximately 1,250 feet, thence eastwards along the
left bank of the Caroni River to a point a quarter of a mile east
of the Golden Grove Road, thence in a south-westerly direction
to a point a quarter of a mile south of the Caroni Road, thence
in a north-westerly direction and parallel to the Caroni Road
to a point an eighth of a mile east of the Southern Main Road,
thence in a northerly direction parallel to and an eighth of a
mile from the Southern Main Road to the Caroni Road, thence
in a westerly direction along the southern side of the Caroni
Road to the first mentioned point at the junction of the Southern
Main Road and the Caroni Road.
(j) All that area bounded on the north by the northern boundary
of the County of Caroni, on the south by the Caparo River, on
the east by the Southern Main Road, and on the west by the sea.
15. Diego Martin District:—

(a) The area along the Western Main Road extending in a westerly
direction from its junction with the Diego Martin and Morne
Coco Roads at Four Roads to the 8th mile post and bounded
on the North by a line running parallel to and a quarter of a
mile from the Western Main Road and on the South by the sea
to include Point Cumana and Carenage Villages.
(b) The area comprised by a line running parallel to and a quarter
of a mile on either side of the Diego Martin Road from its
junction with the Western Main Road and the Morne Coco
Road to the 33/4 mile post to include Crystal Stream, Sierra
Leone, Rich Plain, Diamond and Congo Villages.
(c) The area comprised by a line running parallel to and an eighth
of a mile on either side of the Morne Coco Road from its
junction with the Western Main Road and the Diego Martin
Road to the half mile post to include Petit Valley and Cameron
Junction Villages.
(d) The area comprised by a line running parallel to and an eighth
of a mile on either side of the St. Lucien Road from its junction
with the Sierra Leone Road to its junction with the Diego
Martin Road at River Estate.
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(e) All that area contained within a mile running due west from
the 93/4 mile post on the Saddle Road to the ridge forming the
Eastern watershed of the La Ceiba River, then along the crest
of this ridge in a northerly direction to its junction with the
Northern Main Ridge at Morne Mal D’Estomac, thence along
the crest of the Northern Main Ridge in an easterly direction
to its junction with the ridge forming the eastern boundary of
the Ward of Diego Martin thence along the crest of this ridge
in a southerly direction to a point due east of the 93/4 mile post
on the Saddle Road, thence by the line running due west to the
said mile post.
16. Couva District:—

(a) The area bounded by two lines parallel to and a quarter of a
mile on either side of the Southern Main Road from the
223/4 mile post to the 231/2 mile post.
(b) Dow Village:—
North—By a line parallel to and a quarter of a mile north of
the California Station Road.
South—By a line parallel to and a quarter of a mile south of
the California Station Road.
East—The Trinidad Government Railway reserve.
West—By a line parallel to and a quarter of a mile east of
the Southern Main Road.
(c) Freeport Village and part of St. Mary’s Village. The area
bounded as follows:—
North—By a line running north of, parallel to and 200 yards
from the La Cuesa Road, the Freeport Village Road, the
Freeport Mission Road and the Waterloo Road.
South—By a line running from the Calcutta Settlement Road
to the Freeport Mission Road in a direction parallel to, and at
a distance of 200 yards from the Neilson Road.
East—By a due north line running from the eastern end of
the southern boundary line to meet the northern boundary line.
West—By a line starting from the western end of the
southern boundary line and running in a north-westerly
direction to meet the 223/4 mile mark on the Southern Main
Road and continuing in the same direction to a point 200 yards
away from that road, thence running in a north-easterly
direction parallel to and 200 yards from the Southern Main
Road to meet the Waterloo Road; thence continuing in the
same north-easterly direction to meet the northern boundary.
(d) Bank Village and Carapichaima:—

All that area situated in the Couva District starting from the
junction of the Southern Main Road and the Waterloo (otherwise
called St. Mary’s) Junction thence in a north-westerly direction
along the side of the Waterloo Road to the Sea, thence in a
southerly direction a quarter of a mile along the coast thence in
an easterly direction a quarter of a mile south and parallel to the
Waterloo Road to the Southern Main Road; thence in a northerly
direction to the first mentioned point.
(e) McBean:—
The area comprised by a quarter of a mile on either side of
the Sothern Main Road from the sixteen and a half (161/2) mile
post to the twenty and three-quarter (203/4) mile post, Curepe
junction being zero mile post.
(f) St. Andrew and Perseverance:—
the Couva River Bay Road from its junction with the Southern
Main Road to the Couva Bay, comprising the villages of
St. Andrew and Perseverance in theWard of Couva.
(g) Claxton Bay, Friendship, Savonetta and Providence:—
All that area situated in the Couva District starting from the
junction of the Southern Main Road and the Cedar Hill Road,
thence in a westerly direction along the coast to a point due
west of the junction of the Southern Main Road on the Monkey
Point Road, thence in an easterly direction to a point half a
mile due east of the junction of the Southern Main Road and
the Monkey Point Road, thence in a southerly direction parallel
to and half a mile from the Southern Main Road to the Cedar
Hill Road and thence in a westerly direction along the Cedar
Hill Road to the first mentioned point.
(h) Balmain and Spring:—
the Couva Main Road from the first mile post to the two and a
half (21/2)mile post, comprising the villages of Balmain and
Spring in the Wards of Couva and Montserrat.
17. St. Ann’s-Tacarigua District:—

(a) Five Rivers Village, Arouca—The area comprised by a line
running due north for a quarter of a mile from the point where
the Trinidad Government Railway line crosses the Eastern
Main Road at Garden Village, thence by a line running in a
westerly direction to a point on the Entrance Road to Five
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Rivers Estate a quarter of a mile from its junction with the

Eastern Main Road, thence by the Entrance Road to the Five
Rivers Estate to the Trinidad Government Railway line and
thence by the Trinidad Government Railway line to the Garden
Crossing.
(b) District between Tunapuna and Arouca—The area bounded
by a line starting from the point where the Trinidad
Government Railway crosses the Eastern Main Road near the
Five Rivers Estate Entrance Road and running along this latter
road for a quarter of a mile, thence by a straight line to the
junction of the St. Michael’s Road and Gittens’ Street, thence
by a line proceeding westwards along Gittens’ Street to its
junction with Thavenot Street, thence by a straight line to the
north-eastern point of the Tunapuna area on the El Dorado
Road, thence by a line running along the El Dorado Road to
its junction with the Eastern Main Road, proceeding along the
Eastern Main Road to its junction with Back Street, thence
South along Back Street and the El Dorado Estate boundary
to the Trinidad Government Railway, thence along the Trinidad
Government Railway in an easterly direction to the first
mentioned point.
(c) Ward of Tacarigua—Area bounded as follows:—
North—By a line commencing from the northern end of
the western boundary of Streatham Lodge Estate and running
eastward along the Government Railway Line to the northern
end of the western boundary of Arouca, that is to say the point
at which the Trinidad Government Railway Line crosses the
Eastern Main Road.
East—By a line beginning at the above-mentioned point
and running along the western boundary for the distance of a
quarter of a mile.
West—By a line from the north end of the western boundary
of Streatham Lodge Estate along the western boundary of
Streatham Lodge Estate for the distance of a quarter of a mile.
South—By a line joining the southern extremities of the
eastern and western boundaries.
(d) The area surrounded by a line running along the eastern
boundary of the suburbs of Port-of-Spain from the Trinidad
Government Railway to the Laventille Road; then running
along the Laventille Road to its junction with the Caledonia
Road, then running southwards along the Caledonia Road and
then along its western branch to meet the Eastern Main Road,
then running eastwards along the Eastern Main Road to the

western boundary of Barataria Estate, then southwards along
the said boundary to the Trinidad Government Railway line to
the starting point on the eastern boundary of the suburbs of
Port-of-Spain.
(e) All that area situated in the St. Ann’s-Tacarigua District starting
from a point on the south side of the Southern Main Road at
its junction with the Caroni River, thence in an easterly
direction along the left bank of the Caroni River to a point
approximately 1,150 feet north of the junction of the Southern
Main Road and the Caroni Road, thence southward to the
southern side of the said junction, thence in a westerly direction
along the southern side of the Southern Main Road to the first
mentioned point.
(f) All that area surrounded by a line starting from a point on the
ridge dividing the St. Ann’s and Diego Martin Wards a quarter
of a mile north of the Saddle in an easterly and southerly
direction parallel to the Saddle Road to a point on the northern
boundary of No. 10 of Part “B “; thence in a westerly direction
along the aforesaid boundary to a point a quarter of a mile
west of the Saddle Road thence in a northerly and westerly
direction and parallel to the Saddle Road to a point on the
ridge between the St. Ann’s and Diego Martin Wards a quarter
of a mile south of the Saddle; thence along the aforesaid ridge
crossing the Saddle to the starting point.
(g) All that area situated in the St. Ann’s-Tacarigua District starting
from a point on the south side of the Southern Main Road at
its junction with the Caroni River, thence in an easterly
direction along the left bank of the Caroni River to a point
approximately eleven hundred and fifty feet north of the
junction of the Southern Main Road and the Caroni Road,
thence southward to the southern side of the said junction,
thence in a westerly direction along the southern side of the
Southern Main Road to the first mentioned point.
(h) All that area surrounded by a line commencing at a point a
quarter of a mile from and to the west of the Southern Main
Road on the southern boundary of the area defined as No. 5 of
Part “B” and following that boundary in an easterly and
northerly direction to the western side of the Trinidad
Government Railway Reserve thence in a south-easterly
direction along the Trinidad Government Railway Reserve to
the Caroni River; thence along the right bank of the Caroni
River across the Southern Main Road to a point a quarter of a
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mile west of the Southern Main Road; thence in a northerly

direction and parallel to the Southern Main Road to the starting
point on the southern boundary of the above mentioned area
No. 5 of Part “B”.
(i) All that area situated in the St. Ann’s-Tacarigua District
starting from the north-west corner of the Soconusco
Settlement and running along the northern boundary of the
said Settlement in an easterly and north-easterly direction
across the Cutucupano Road to a point quarter of a mile east
of the said Road, thence in a southerly direction and parallel
to the Cutucupano Road to a point where this line meets
No. 17 (f) of this Part, thence westwards along the northern
boundary of the said area No. 17(f) to a point a quarter of a
mile west of the Cutucupano Road, thence in a northerly
direction parallel to the Cutucupano Road to a point on the
southern boundary of the Soconusco Settlement, thence in a
westerly direction to the south-western corner of the
Soconusco Settlement, thence north and east along a portion
of the western boundary of the Soconusco Settlement to a
point quarter of a mile from the Cutucupano Road, thence in
a north-westerly direction and parallel to the Cutucupano
Road to a point on the Soconusco Settlement, thence in a
north-westerly direction along a portion of the western
boundary of the Soconusco Settlement to the starting point.
(j) All that area in the St. Ann’s-Tacarigua District starting at
the north-eastern corner of the suburbs of Port-of-Spain
(defined as No. 1 of Part “B” of this Schedule) thence due
east to the western boundary of No. 17 (f) of this Part, thence
southwards along the western boundary of the last
mentioned area to the point where it joins the northern
boundary of No. 10 of Part “B “ thence westwards along
the northern boundaries of No. 10 of Part “B” and the
suburbs of Port-of-Spain as defined in No. 1 of Part “B”
hereto to the point where this line joins the eastern boundary
of No. 1 of Part “B “, thence northwards along the eastern
boundary of No. 1 of Part “B “, to the starting point.
18. (a) Arima District:—

North—By a line running due east and west and a quarter
of a mile north of the junction of the Heights of Guanapo Road
with the Eastern Main Road.
East—By the Heights of Guanapo Road from the point
where the above northern boundary meets it to the junction of
that road with the Eastern Main Road and by a line running
due south from this junction to a point a quarter of a mile
south of it.
South—By a line running due west from the southern end

of the last mentioned line to the Arima River.
West—By the Arima River.
(b) The area bounded as follows:—
North—By a line running parallel to and a quarter of a mile
north of the Old Arima Road.
South—By a line running parallel to and a quarter of a mile
south of the Eastern Main Road.
East—By the Mausica River.
West—By the Arouca River.
(c) The area bounded by a line beginning on the Tumpuna Road
where it crosses the southern boundary of the Borough of
Arima and running in an easterly direction along that boundary
to the south-eastern corner of the Borough of Arima, then
continuing in the same direction to a point a quarter of a mile
from the Tumpuna Road, thence running in a southerly
direction parallel to and a quarter of a mile from the following
roads: The Tumpuna Road to its junction with the Cumuto-
Tumpuna and Caroni Roads, the Caroni Road from the last
mentioned junction to its junction with the Talparo Road, the
Talparo Road from the last mentioned junction to a due east
and west line crossing the said road at a point a quarter of a
mile from and south of its junction with the Tamana Road;
thence running west along the last mentioned line and crossing
the Talparo Road to a point a quarter of a mile from the said
road, thence running in a northerly direction parallel to and a
quarter of a mile from the following roads, the Talparo Road
to its junction with the Caroni Road and the Caroni Road from
its junction with the Talparo Road to its junction with the
Tumpuna and Cumuto-Tumpuna Roads; then parallel to the
Tumpuna Road and a quarter of a mile therefrom to a point on
the southern boundary of the Borough of Arima, thence running
in an easterly direction along the southern boundary of that
Borough back to the starting point.
(d) Blanchisseuse Ward:—
All that area situated in the Ward of Blanchisseuse starting
from a point at High Water Mark on the sea coast due from the
south-western corner of the 4 acres, 3 roods, 21 perches,
originally granted to George McLean, thence in a northerly
and then easterly direction along the sea coast to the mouth of
the Marianne River, thence along the left bank of the Marianne
River to a point a quarter of a mile away from the Paria Road,
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thence in a westerly direction running parallel to and a quarter

of a mile away from the south side of the Paria Main Road till
it intersects the northern boundary of 19 acres, 0 roods,
0 perches, originally granted to John Sandy , thence along the
northern and western boundaries of this parcel and along the
western boundary of 4 acres, 3 roods, 39 perches, granted to
John Guerra and the southern boundary of 4 acres, 3 roods,
21 perches, granted to George McLean, thence by a line due
west to the starting point.
(e) All that area bounded on the north by Crown Lands leased to
the United States Government, and running in more or less a
south-easterly direction along the Cumuto Road to its junction
with the Little Cora Road including an area lying within one-
eighth of a mile on either side of the said Cumuto Road—also
the area within one-eighth of a mile on either side of the Caratal
Road commencing from its junction with the Cumuto Road
and proceeding in a more or less south-westerly direction along
the said Caratal Road to its junction with the Cumuto River.
19. Gran Couva District:—

(a) Flanagin Town :—
North—A line running due east and west through the north-
western corner of Andrew Manho’s 2 acres, 0 roods,
19 perches.
South—A line beginning on the Trinidad Government
Railway Line and running in an easterly direction along the
Mary Ayoung Trace, the Manjaria Crown Trace, the Talemaque
Trace and the Cipero River.
East—The Caparo River.
West—A due north line beginning on the Trinidad Government
Railway and running through the north-western corner of the
Burial Ground 2 acres, 0 roods, 0 perches, to meet the east and
west line forming the northern boundary of the village.
(b) Preysal Village:—
The area bounded by a line beginning at a point on the Couva
Road, a half of a mile measured in an easterly direction, along
the road from the junction of the said road with the Freeport
Mission Road, and running in a north-westerly direction along
the Couva Road to a point on the said road a half of a mile
beyond the said junction, thence running in a due north-east
direction to a point due west of the Freeport Mission Road
and Lower Couva Road, thence running in a due south-east
direction through the last mentioned junction to a point due
north-east of the starting point on the Couva Road thence in a
south-west direction to the said starting point.
(c) Tabaquite Village:—

North—A line beginning on the Tabaquite-Brasso Road an
eighth of a mile from its junction with the Guaracara-Tabaquite
Road and running parallel to and an eighth of a mile from the
Guaracara-Tabaquite Road to a point an eighth of a mile north
of its intersection by the western boundary of Tabaquite Village
No. 1, thence running in an easterly direction in a straight line
to the south-western corner of the 4 acres, 3 roods, 33 perches,
granted to Jahuree and Sooknannan.
South—A line beginning from the junction of the
GuaracaraTabaquite Road from the Piparo Road and running
in a straight line to a point due south of and an eighth of a mile
from the junction of the Guaracara-Tabaquite Road and the
Tabaquite-Brasso Road, thence running parallel to and an
eighth of a mile from the Guaracara-Tabaquite Road till it meets
the southern boundary of Tabaquite Village No. 1, thence
running in a straight line to the south-western corner of the
Tabaquite Cemetery 5 acres, 0 roods, 3 perches, thence in a
due east direction to the south-eastern corner of the 5 acres
granted to Herbert Seucharan.
East—A straight line between the south-eastern corner of
Herbert Seucharan’s 5 acres and the south-western corner of the
4 acres, 3 roods, 33 perches, granted to Jahuree and Sooknanan.
West—A line running along the Guaracara-Tabaquite Road
from its junction with the Tabaquite-Brasso Road, thence along
the Tabaquite-Brasso Road to a point an eighth of a mile from
the last mentioned junction.
(d) Gran Couva Village:—
The area bounded by a line beginning at the bridge on the
Couva Road over the Savonetta River and running due north to
a point an eighth of a mile from the Couva Road, thence running
in an easterly direction parallel to and an eighth of a mile from
the Couva Road to a point an eighth of a mile north of the junction
of the Brasso Caparo Station Road and the Atagual Road, thence
running due south to a point an eighth of a mile south of the
said junction, thence running in a westerly direction parallel to
and an eighth of a mile from the Couva Road to the Savonetta
River, thence in a north-westerly direction along the Savonetta
River to the Bridge on the Couva Road.
20. Caroni District:—

All that area bounded on the north by the northern boundary
of the County of Caroni, on the south by the Caparo River, on
the east by the Southern Main Road, and on the west by the sea.
L.R.O.
PART “B”
Suburbs of 1. The Suburbs of Port-of-Spain comprise the area which is bounded:—
Port-of-Spain.
East—A due north and south line through the Laventille
Church Trigonometrical Station drawn from the Sea and
extended till it meets the St. Ann’s River.
North—A due west line drawn from the last mentioned point
on the St. Ann’s River and extended to the Fort George Road.
West—The Fort George Road to its junction with the
Western Main Road and thence by a line due south to the Sea.
South—The Sea.
And also the area comprised by a quarter of a mile on either
side of the Eastern Main Road from the eastern boundary of
Port-of-Spain to the western branch of Caledonia Road. But
save and except the area contained within the City of Port-of-
Spain as the same is from time to time defined in or under the
provisions of the Port-of-Spain Corporation Ordinance, and
also the area comprised by a quarter of a mile on either side of
the Eastern Main Road from the eastern boundary of Port-of-
Spain to the western branch of Caledonia Road,
which said boundaries are delineated and shown on a plan signed by Mr. J. W.
Dumanoire, Deputy Surveyor-General, dated the 29th of May, 1933, and filed
in the office of the Director of Surveys.
San Fernando. 2. The Borough of San Fernando comprises the area which is bounded as
follows:—
North—By a line starting from a point on the Sea coast in
the projection of the southern boundary of Vistabella Estate,
and running in a more or less easterly direction along this
projected line and along the southern boundary of the Vistabella
Estate to a point one hundred and fifty feet from the Pointe-a-
Pierre Road, thence running parallel to and one hundred and
fifty feet from Pointe-a-Pierre Road, Cane Street and the
Circular Road to the point where it intersects London Street.
East—From the last mentioned point by a line running
parallel to and one hundred and fifty feet from and to the
east of the Circular Road till it crosses the Naparima-Mayaro
Road, thence in an easterly direction along the southern side
of the Naparima-Mayaro Road to a point two hundred feet
from Torrance Street, thence running in a more or less
southerly direction parallel to and two hundred feet from
Torrance Street, Skinner Street, Jones Street and South Street
to the western boundary of Felicity Estate at a point two
hundred feet south of South Street, thence in a southerly

direction along the western boundary of Felicity Estate to a
point two hundred feet south of its junction with the northern
boundary of Les Efforts Estate.
South—By a line running from the last mentioned point
parallel to and two hundred feet from Rushworth Street to the
western boundary of Les Efforts Estate, thence in a southerly
and westerly direction along the boundaries of the Les Efforts
Estate to the Sea.
West—By the Sea.
3. The Borough of Arima comprises the area which is bounded as follows :— Arima.
North—By a straight due east line from the branch of the
Mauxiquita Ravine (shown on the plan of the said Borough
deposited in the office of the Director of Surveys) crossing
the eastern boundary of the Calvary land at a point 243 feet
and 6 inches south of its northern extremity and extending to
the Arima River; thence following the right bank of the Arima
River downwards until met by the eastern boundary.
South—By the boundary line between Mr. de Gannes’ land
and the Railway Reserve produced in a westerly direction to
meet the Mauxica River, and from the north-eastern corner of
Mr. de Gannes’ land by a straight line bearing East 11 degrees
31 minutes North to a point about 188 feet to the eastward of
the Cucurite or Tumpuna Road.
East—By a due southern line from the Arima River crossing
the Eastern Road exactly at the top of the hill known as the
Pijiguau Hill and produced to meet the southern boundary of
the Borough.
West—By the branch of the Mauxiquita Ravine and left
bank of Mauxica River as far as the western extremity of the
southern boundary.
4. Princes Town comprises the area which is bounded:— Princes Town.

North—By the southern boundary of the Malgretoute Estate
from the point where it leaves the eastern boundary of the
Cedar Hill Estate to the old Cipero tramline, thence along the
old Cipero tramline to the Glenroy Estate boundary in the
Naparima-Mayaro Road, thence along the southern boundary
of the Glenroy Estate to the north-western corner of the Birken
Hill Estate which now forms part of the Buen Intento Estate.
East—By the western boundary of the said Birken Hill
Estate to the north-west corner of the Knollys Recreation
Ground, thence along the northern and eastern boundaries of
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the said Knollys Recreation Ground, and the southern boundary

of the said Birken Hill Estate to the western boundary of the
Craignish Estate and along the western boundary of the said
Craignish Estate to the Naparima-Mayaro Road and along that
road in a south-westerly direction to the western boundary of
the Broomage Estate and along that boundary to where it meets
the eastern boundary of the Lothians Estate, thence in a straight
line running in a more or less south-westerly direction to the
south-eastern corner of the Navette Public Burial Ground.
South—By the northern boundary of the Lothians Estate
from the south-eastern corner of the Navette Public Burial
Ground to the southern-eastern corner of the Cedar Hill Estate.
West—By the eastern boundary of the Cedar Hill Estate
from its south-eastern corner to the point where it meets the
Malgretoute Estate.
St. Joseph and 5. St. Joseph and Tunapuna comprise the area which is bounded:—
Tunapuna.
North—By a line beginning at the junction of the eastern
boundary of St. Ann’s Ward with the north western corner of
Buen Vista Estate and running east along the northern boundary
of the said estate across the St. Joseph River to the Maracas
Road; thence south-east along the Maracas Road to its junction
with Riverside Road thence along Riverside Road to the
northern boundary line of lands of heirs of J. Boneo; thence in
a straight line due east through Crown lands, lands of Abdul
Gany, Crown lands and lands of Deenoo to the south-western
corner of lands of Hoosaynee; thence along the southern
boundary of lands of Hoosaynee; northern boundary of lands
of Jharee now Catherine Dimouth; Chatoorie; and Jharee now
Catherine Dimouth (4a. 2r. 28p.); thence eastwards through
lands now 9f the Incorporated Trustees of the Mount
St. Benedict Monastery inTrinidad to a point on the St. John
Savannah Road where it joins the entrance road to the Mount
St. Benedict Monastery; thence by a line due east to the
Tunapuna River; thence south along the Tunapuna River to a
point north-west of the Tunapuna Reservoir, thence along a
line running east and passing north of the Tunapuna Reservoir
through lands originally granted to Jowaheer and Madroo to
the El Dorado Road.
South—By a line beginning on the eastern boundary of the
St. Ann’s Ward at a point south of the Valsayn Farm Buildings
and running east across the St. Joseph River to a point on the
Southern Main Road about 740 feet south of the 7th mile post
thence south along the Southern Main Road to the north-
western boundary of the Curepe Estate; thence east along the
northern boundary of the Curepe Estate, thence south along
the western boundary of lot 87, thence east across lot 87 in a

line with the southern boundary of lots 83, 78, 75, 46, 45;
thence north along the western boundary line of Streatham
Lodge Estate to the Government Railway; thence east along
the Government Railway to the western boundary of El Dorado
Estate and Back Street.
East—By a line commencing from the point where the
northern boundary of the district meets the El Dorado Road,
proceeding south along the El Dorado Road to its junction with
the Eastern Main Road; thence east along the Eastern Main Road
to its junction with Back Street; thence south along Back Street
and El Dorado Estate boundary to the Government Railway.
West—By the eastern boundary of the St. Ann’s Ward.
6. Couva comprises the area which is bounded:— Couva.

North—By a line running from the north-western corner of
the Anglican Church land running in an easterly direction to
the signboard or monument on the Southern Main Road near
the 27th mile post.
South—By a line from the sign-board or monument near
the 281/2 mile post on the Southern Main Road running in a
south-easterly direction to the Couva River.
East—By a line from the signboard or monument near the
27th mile post on the Southern Main Road running South along
Isaac Street, thence to Couva River.
West—By a line from the north-western corner of the
Anglican Church lands running south to the signboard or
monument near the 281/2 mile post on the Southern Main Road.
7. Sangre Grande comprises the area bounded as follows:— Sangre Grande.

North—By a line drawn from the north-eastern boundary
of block of 15a. 1 r. 8p. of land, the property of the Heirs of
C. F . Sellier, crossing the Warner or Cuare Road and running
in a westerly direction along the northern boundary of the said
block and the northern boundary of lands of Ramnpersad,
Jeebodh and Sookaie to the Picton Trace.
South—By the Cunapo River.
East—By a line drawn from the Cunapo River along the
eastern boundary of a ten-acre block of land formerly the
property of A. Brooks, now of the Heirs of C. F. Sellier, crossing
the Sangre Grande-Oropouche Road and along the eastern
boundary of a six-acre block of land formerly the property of
P. Ojoe, now of the Heirs of C. F. Sellier, and thence in a
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northerly direction to the northern boundary of the lands of

J. Ojoe now F . Cumberbatch, thence in a westerly direction to
the south-eastern corner of a 3a. or. 37p. block of land the
property of the Heirs of C. F. Sellier, thence running north
along the eastern boundary of the said 3a. or. 37p. block of
land and lands of M. Warner, now of Philip Acham, and lands
of Heirs of C. F. Sellier (15a. 1r. 8p.) to the north-eastern
boundary of the said block of land.
West—By a line drawn along the Picton Trace to the Eastern
Main Road, and thence in a straight line running south to the
Cunapo River.
Scarborough.
8. The Town of Scarborough comprises the area which is delineated in the
plan signed by Edward R. Smart, Esquire, Engineer-in-Charge of Surveys, dated
the 5th day of August, 1910, and deposited in the office of the Warden of Tobago
and the Crown Lands Office, Port-of-Spain, and comprised within the boundary
lines marked thereon by the letters A to 0 running in alphabetical order from
point A to point 0 and from A to A, and is bounded as follows:—
The Southern boundary shall commence at the junction of
the Fort Main Road and Mackay Hill Street at a point marked
A on plan, thence run along the south side of Mackay Hill
Street to point B, thence to point C, thence along a line through
Sans Souci to the Windward Main Road at point D, thence to
point E and thence along the centre of the ravine to the sea at
point F.
The Western boundary shall commence at the sea at point F
and run in a north-westerly direction along the sea coast to
point G, thence along the south-western boundary of the
customs premises and the jetty to point H, thence along the
sea to the west of the Customs premises to the point I, thence
along the sea coast to the junction of the Plymouth Main Road
at point J, thence along the eastern side of the Plymouth Main
Road to point K.
The Northern boundary shall commence at point K and run
in a straight line to point L at the northern side of the first
bridge on the Northside Main Road, and thence along the North
bank of cook’s River to the point M, thence in a south-easterly
direction to meet Rose Hill Street at point N, and thence along
the North side of Rose Hill Street to its junction with the Calder
Hail Main Road at the point O.
The Eastern boundary shall commence at point 0 and run in
a southerly direction along the western side of the Calder Hall
Main Road, and the eastern side of the old Park and Fort Main
Roads terminating at point A.
9. Cocorite and Four Roads Villages bounded as follows:—

North—By a line running due east through the junction of
the Western, Diego Martin and Morne Coco Roads.
South—By the Sea.
East—By a line running parallel to and a quarter of a mile
East of the Western Road and by the Fort George Road.
West—By a line running due South from the junction of
the Western, Diego Martin and Morne Coco Roads to the Sea.
10. Area including San Juan, Aranguez, Barataria, Concord and Champs
Fleurs:—
North—By a line running north of and parallel to the Eastern
Main Road from the junction of the Caledonia and Laventille
Local Roads in an easterly direction to the boundary between
the Wards of St. Ann’s and Tacarigua.
East—By the boundary line between the Wards of St. Ann’s
and Tacarigua.
South—By the northern bank of the Caroni River to the
western boundary of Barataria Estate.
West—By the western boundary of the Barataria Estate to
the Eastern Main Road and by the Eastern Main Road to the
western branch of the Caledonia Local Road and by this Road
to its junction with the Laventille Road.
11. Arouca:—
North—By the Trinidad Government Railway line from the
level crossing at Laurel Hill to a point 100 yards before it
crosses the Eastern Main Road at Garden thence by a line due
east to the Arouca River.
East—By the Arouca River.
South—By the Arouca River to its junction with the Golden
Grove Road and thence by a line due west to a point due south
of the Trinidad Government Railway level crossing at
Laurel Hill.
West—By a line running due north from the last mentioned
point to the Trinidad Government Railway level crossing at
Laurel Hill.
12. Chaguanas:—
South—The Caparo River.
West—a line running from the Caparo River in a due north
direction through the junction of Taitt and Cumberbatch Streets
to a point due west to the junction of Biljah Road and Caroni
Savannah Road.
L.R.O.
North—Biljah Road and a line running in a due west

direction from the junction of the Biljah and Caroni Savannah
Roads to meet the western boundary line.
East—a line running from the Caparo River to the Biljah
Road in a due north direction through the Junction of St. Yves
and Rene streets.
13. Naparima District:—

All that area situated in the Naparima District from a point
at the mouth of the Guaracara River, and running in an easterly
direction along the left bank of the said River to a point half of
a mile east of its junction with the Southern Main Road, thence
in a south-easterly direction to a point a quarter of a mile north
of the junction of the Naparima-Mayaro Road and the Corinth
Road, thence in a westerly direction to a point a quarter of a
mile west of the last mentioned point, thence in a southerly
direction a quarter of a mile west and parallel to the Corinth
Road to the Cipero River, thence along the right bank of the
Cipero River to the sea, thence along the sea coast in a northerly
direction to the southern boundary of the Borough of San
Fernando, thence along the southern, eastern and northern
boundaries of the Borough of San Fernando to the sea coast,
thence along the sea coast in a northerly direction to the first
mentioned point at the mouth of the Guaracara River.
14. The area east of San Fernando bounded as follows:—

North—By the Naparima-Mayaro Road and the boundary
of the Town of San Fernando.
South—By lands of Felicity Estate.
East—By Torrance Street and then by a line from the corner
of Torrance and Skinner Streets running due south to meet
land of Felicity Estate.
West—By the eastern boundary of the Town of San
Fernando.
15. Siparia Village:—

The area comprised within two miles running parallel to
the San Fernando-Siparia-Erin Road and being respectively a
quarter of a mile north and a quarter of a mile south of the said
road from the 11th mile post to the 121/2 mile post.
16. New La Brea:—

North—By the Sea.
East—By the Pitch Lake Ravine, lands of the New Trinidad
Lake Asphalt Company and Brighton Estate.
South—By Brighton Estate.
West—By Brighton Estate.
17. Bonasse Village, Cedros:—

North—By the Sea starting from the eastern boundary of
the Perseverance Estate and running along the sea coast in a
more or less easterly direction for the distance of 4,800 feet.
East—Thence by a line running in a more or less southerly
direction for a distance of 2,500 feet.
South—Thence by a line running in a more or less westerly
direction until it meets the eastern boundary of the
Perseverance Estate at a point 1,320 feet from the sea.
West—By the eastern boundary of the Perseverance Estate
to the Sea.
18. Roxborough Tobago:—

North—By a line running due east from the quarter mile
post on the Roxborough Parlatuvier Road to a point on a line
running due north from the Sea through the eastern boundary
of the Steamer’s Depot to the Sea.
East—Thence by a line running due south through the
eastern boundary of the Steamer’s Depot to the Sea.
South—By the Sea.
West—By a line running due north from the Sea to the
junction of the Windward and Roxborough-Parlatuvier Roads
and thence by the latter Road to the quarter mile post.
19. Nariva-Mayaro District:—

(a) Church Village—
The area comprised in an area a quarter of a mile on either
side of the Naparima-Mayaro Road from the western boundary
of Church Village to the Guayanapa River.
(b) Rio Claro Village:—
All that area starting from a point at the junction of the
Tabaquite-Rio Claro Road on the Cunapo Southern Road,
thence in an easterly direction along the last mentioned road
to and in a southerly direction along the eastern boundary of
lands of Adrien de Verteuil (449a. 2r. 28p.) to the Naparima-
Mayaro Road, thence due south to and in a westerly direction
along the Guayanapa River to its junction with the Naparima-
Mayaro Road, thence in a north line to the starting point.
20. Point Fortin District:—

All that area starting from the terminus of the Guapo-Cap-
de-Ville Road on the sea coast, thence continuing along the
coast in a north-easterly direction to the Guapo River, thence
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along the left bank of the said river to a point due east of the
junction of the Point Fortin Road and Southern Main Road,
thence through the said junction along the Point Fortin Road
to the junction of the Guapo-Cap-de-Ville and Point Fortin
Roads, thence along the former road to the starting point.
21. St. Patrick District:—

All that area bounded by a line starting from a point at the
junction of the Southern Main Road and the United British
Oilfields of Trinidad Private Road (known as Point Fortin
Road) proceeding thence in a south-westerly direction along
the western boundary of the said Southern Main Road for
approximately two-fifths of a mile to a point; thence in a
general north-westerly direction a quarter of a mile from and
parallel to the United British Oilfields of Trinidad Private Road
(known as Point Fortin Road) crossing the present Guapo-
Cap-de-Ville Road and the abandoned portion of the said road
now granted to United British Oilfields of Trinidad to the sea
coast, thence in a north-easterly direction along the sea coast
to a point at the south-western corner of a strip of land leased
to United British Oilfields of Trinidad; thence in a north-
easterly direction along the southern boundary of the said strip
of land to the south-eastern corner; thence in the same direction
along the southern boundary of the abandoned portion of the
Guapo-Cap-de-Ville Road to its junction with the United
British Oilfields of Trinidad Private Road (known as Point
Fortin Road); thence in a general south-easterly direction along
the southern boundary of the last mentioned road to the point
of commencement.

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LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE, 1940

CH. 12 NO. 4—1940

Current Authorised Pages

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Index of Subsidiary Legislation

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CH. 12 NO. 4—1940

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE, 1940

CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF BOARD AND OF

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SCAVENGING AND CLEANSING

68. Throwing of offensive matter in public places.

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IMPORTATION OF FOOD AND DRINK

SALE OF OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELL FISH

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COMMON LODGING-HOUSES AND BARRACK YARDS

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CH. 12 NO. 4.—1940

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health Short title.

2. In this Ordinance— Interpretation.

“animal” includes bird;

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“conveniences” includes water supply, privies, surface and other

(a) Infectious diseases proclaimed:—

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Governor, by proclamation (b) under section 103, declares

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whether built on or not, whether public or private, and

Reference to 3. All references in this Ordinance to a local authority mean

CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF BOARD AND

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6. The Governor may, with the consent of the Legislative Funds.

7. (1) The Director of Medical Services shall be ex officio Chairman of

8. The Board may make regulations as to its own proceedings Regulations.

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(2) With respect to such officers the following provisions

* Port sanitary districts defined—

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(4) Rural districts shall be such parts of the Colony outside

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(3) In rural sanitary districts, the Medical Officers of

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owners of the premises fronting, adjoining, or abutting on such

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24. (1) The resolution approving such provisional Publication of

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be served upon the owner or owners of the premises affected

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30. The local authority, in any estimate of the expenses of Commission.

31. (1) In a provisional apportionment of expenses of any Apportionment

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(b) the amount and value of any work already done