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(1) The owner or occupier of any premises on which there is a privy, shall — (a) have between such privy and any building or place used or intended to be used for human habitation, or in which any person may be or may be intended to be employed in any manufacture, trade or business, an air-space of atleast three feet in width and open to the sky; All drains and cesspools to be properly covered and ventilated. Excrementitious matter not to be passed in to cess pool. Power of Commissioner to require adequate water-closet and other accommoda- tion to be made. Power to require privy accommodation to be provided for factories, etc. Power of Commissioner as to unhealthy privies. Provisions as to privies. 1949 : Bom. LIX ] Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 237 (b) have such privy shut off by a sufficient roof and wall, or fence, from the view of persons dwelling in the neighbourhood or passing by; (c) unless and except for such period as he shall be permitted by the Com missioner as hereinafter provided to continue any existing door or trap-door, close up and not keep any door or trap-door in such privy opening on to a street: Provided that— (1) clause (a) shall not be deemed to apply to any privy in existence on the appointed day unless— (i) there is space available on the premises of the owner or occupier for the erection of a new privy conformably to the said clause; and (ii) the existing privy can be removed and a new one erected as aforesaid without destroying any portion of a permanent building other than the existing privy. (2) The Commissioner may permit the continuance for such period as he may think fit of any existing door or trap-door in a privy opening on to a street if a nuisance is not thereby created.