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No person shall build a privy or water-closet in such a position or manner as— (a) to be directly over or directly under any room or part of a building other than a privy or water-closet or a bathing place, bath-room or gallery, passage or terrace; (b) to be within a distance of twentyfeet from any well or from any spring, tank or stream the water whereof is, or is likely to be, used (whether in a natural or manufactured state) for human consumption or domestic purposes or otherwise render the water of any well, spring, tank or stream liable to polution. Provisions as to water closets. Position of privies and water-closets. 238 Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 [ 1949 : Bom. LIX 17 . (1) No public water-closet, privy or urinal other than a water-closet, privy or urinal erected within railway premises or erected by the Government shall be erected in or so as to be accessible from, any street without the consent of the Commissioner who may, in giving his consent, impose such terms as to the use of the water-closet, privy or urinal and as to its removal at any time, if required by him, as he thinks fit. (2) The Commissioner may, by written notice require— (a) the owner of a water-closet, privy or urinal which has been erected in con travention of sub-rule (1) or the removal of which the Commissioner is entitled to require, to remove it ; (b) the owner of a water-closet, privy or urinal which open, on a street and is so placed or constituted as to be a nuisance or offensive to public decency to remove or permanently to close it.