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Consumption of smoke.— (1) It shall be lawful for the municipal council to direct by public notice that every furnace employed, or to be employed, in any works or buildings used for the purpose of any trade or manufacture whatsoever, within the limits of the 1[municipal area]1, whether a steam engine is or is not used or employed therein, shall in all cases, be constructed, supplemented or altered as to consume or burn, or reduce as far as may be practicable, the smoke arising from such furnace. (2) If any person shall, after such direction, use or permit to be used, any such furnace not so constructed, supplemented, or altered, or shall so negligently use, or permit to be used, any such furnace that the smoke arising therefrom shall not be effectually consumed or burnt as far as may be practicable, every person so offending being the owner or occupier of the said works or buildings or being an agent or other person employed by such owner or occupier for managing the same, shall be punished 2[with penalty which may extend to five hundred rupees and upon any subsequent conviction with penalty which may be extended to five thousand rupees:]2 Provided that nothing in this section shall be held to apply to locomotive engines used for the purpose of traffic upon any railway or for the repair of roads.