Bare ActsMadras Public Health Act, 1939

Section 41

Certain things to be nuisances.--

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Without prejudice to the generality of the definition of the expression "nuisance" contained in clause (25) of Section 3, the following shall be deemed specifically to be nuisances for the purposes of this Chapter:-- (1) any premises in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance; (2) any pond, pool, ditch, gutter, water-course, water-trough, latrine, cesspool, drain or ashpit which is so foul or in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance; (3) any animal kept in such a place or manner as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance; (4) any accumulation or deposit of refuse or other matter which is prejudicial to health or a nuisance; (5) any factory [not being a factory governed by the provisions of the Factories Act, 1934]A, workshop or workplace, which is not provided with sufficient means of ventilation, or in which sufficient ventilation is not maintained, or which is not kept clean or not kept free from noxious effluvia, or which is so-crowded while work is carried on as to be prejudicial to the health of those employed therein; (6) any fireplace or furnace which does not as far as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill, factory, dyehouse, brewery, bake-house or gas-work, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever; (7) any chimney sending forth smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance; and (8) any noise, vibration, dust, cinders, irritating smell or offensive odour produced by a factory, workshop or workplace which is a nuisance to the neighbourhood. Now the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act LXIII of 1948)

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