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Prohibition of mosquito breeding in <:lOJlections 'Of water. - (1) If the provisions of this section have been extended to any local area, no person or local .authority. shaU, after. such eXtension- , . (a). have; keep or maintain within such area any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed; or (b) cause, permit, or. suffer any water within such area to form a collection in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed, unless such collection· has been so treated as effectively to prevent such breeding. . . Explanation. - Troughs used for cattle and in frequent use' shall not, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be collections of water in which mas- -quitoes breed or are likely to breed. . (n· The natural presence of mosquitoes c larvae . in any standing or flowing water shall be evidence that mosquitoes are breeding in sUch. water_ . '77. Treatmentof'mosquito breeding placeS. --'-(1) The';,'Health Officer may, .by·notiCein writing,re- quire . the owner or the occupier of any place con- taining any collection of standing or flowing water in. which mosquitoes breed or are. likely' to breed, within such time as may be specified in the notiCe, not being less than twenty-four hours, to take such measures with respect to the s~e, .or to treat the.' same by such physical, chemical or biological method being measures ora method, approved by the Direc~ tor, as the Health Officer may consider suitable in the circumstances. ' . (2) . If the notice under sub-sectiOli (1) is served on the occupier, 'he. shall in the absence of a cont- ract· expressed or implied to' the contrary be entic tIed to recover ,from the owner the reasonable expen- ses. incurred by him in taking the measures' or adopting the method of treatment specified in the notice and may deduct the amount of such expen,ses from the rent is then, or which may~reafter be, due from him to the owner., ," .' 78; Health Officer's PQwers in caSl) of default.--'- If the person on whom a notice is served under sec- tion 77 refuses to take the measures, or adopt the method of treatment,specified in such notice within the time specified therein, the Health Officer may himself take such measures or adopt such treat- ment and recover the cost of doing so from the owner or. occupier of the property as the case n;.aylJe, in the same manner as if it were a' property tax.. .