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ConstructiQn and clOsure .Qfcesspools.- (1) . No person shall construct a cesspool ~ . . - - " (a) beneath any part of any building or within such distance. of any tank, reservoir, water- -course or well or within such other distance " therefrom as the Health Officer may consider to ,be practicabHi having regard to the circumstan- cesof thelocality; or ,. . , (b) within anylooal area or outside such area ' but within three hundred' feet of any reservoir used for the storage Of filtered water to be sup- plied to such area; except upon a sit.e· and in a position which have bElen approved in writing by . the, Health Officer. . (2) The Health Officer may, at any time, by notice, require any person within whose premises any cesspool is constructed in. contravention of sub- . -section (1). to remove such cesspool or to fill it up with suCh material as maY. be approved by him.