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Power to require privy accommodation to be provided for factories, etc.— Where it appears to the Commissioner that any premises are, or are intended to be, used as a market, railway station, dock, wharf or other place of public resort or as a place in which persons exceeding twenty in number are employed in any manufacture, trade or business or as workmen or labourers, the 1 The words “and with the previous approval of the Standing Committee,” were deleted by Mah. 21 of 1989, s. 32. 2 Sections 246A, 247 and 248 were substituted for sections 247 and 248 by Bom. 5 of 1905, s. 28. 3 Sections 246A, 247 and 248 were substituted for sections 247 and 248 by Bom. 5 of 1905, s. 28. 4 The words “and with the previous approval of the Standing Committee,” were deleted by Mah. 21 of 1989, s. 33. 1888 : III] The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act 231 Commissioner may by written notice, require the owner or occupier of the said premises to construct a sufficient number of water-closets or latrines or privies and urinals for the separate use of each sex. 1[249A. Power of Commissioner as to unhealthy privies.— Where the Commissioner is of opinion that any privy is likely, by reason of its not being sufficiently detached from any buildings to cause injury to the health of any person occupying such building, the Commissioner 2[* * *] may by written notice require the owner or occupier of the premises in or on which such privy is situate either— (a) to so close up such privy as to prevent any person using the same, and to provide in lieu thereof such water-closet or privy accommodation or such urinal accommodation as the Commissioner may prescribe, or (b) to provide between the said privy and any portion of the said building such air-space not exceeding three feet in width, open to the sky and situate entirely within the limits of the said premises as the Commissioner may prescribe.]