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Provisions as to water-closets.— The owner or occupier of any premises on which there is a water-closets shall— (a) have such water-closet divided off from any part of a 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, by such means as the Commissioner shall deem sufficient; (b) have such water-closet in such a position that one of its sides at least shall be an external wall; (c) have the seat of such water-closet placed against an external wall; (d) cause such water-closet to be provided with such means of constant ventilation as the Commissioner shall deem adequate, by a window or other aperture in one of the walls of such water-closet opening directly into the external air, or by an air-shaft or by some other suitable method or appliance; (e) have such water-closet supplied by a supply-cistern and flushing apparatus and filled with a soil-pan or receiver and such other appliances of such materials, size and description as the Commissioner shall deem necessary ; provided always that a cistern from which a water-closet is 1 Section 249A was inserted by Bom. 5 of 1905, s. 29. 2 The words “with the previous approval of the Standing Committee,” were deleted by Mah. 21 of 1989, s. 34. 232 The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act [1888 : III supplied shall not be used or be connected with another cistern which is used, for supplying water for any other purpose. 1[251A. Position of privies and water-closets.— 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 building other than another privy or water-closet or a bathing place, bathroom or terrace; (b) to be within a distance of twenty feet from any well or from any spring, tank or stream of the water whereof is, or is likely to be, used (whether in natural or manufactured state) for human consumption or domestic purposes, or otherwise render the water of any well, spring, tank or stream liable to pollution.] 2[251B. Use of place for bathing or washing clothes or domestic utensils.— No person shall use or permit to be used as a bathing place, or as a place for washing clothes or domestic utensils, any part of any premises which has not been provided with all such appliances and fitting as shall, in the opinion of the Commissioner, be necessary for collecting the drainage thereof and conveying the same therefrom.]