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For the purposes of this Chapter --- (1) Community wastes shall mean any one or all of the following matters, namely:- (i) sullage including overflow water and storm water; (ii) sewage, meaning night soil and other contents of privies, urinals, cesspools or drains and including trade effluents and discharges from manufactories, factories and industrial concerns of all kinds; (iii) offensive matters, meaning kitchen or stable refuse, dung, dirt, putrid or putrefying substances, sputum, filth of any kind and sewage; (iv) rubbish, meaning dust, ashes, sweeping, broken bricks, mortar, glass and refuse from houses, manufactories, factories and industrial concerns of any kind which is not offensive matter or sewage. (2) Collection and/or disposal of community wastes means any or all of the following measures: -- (i) drainage including sewage disposal; (ii) sewerage, the term drain includes a sewer, a house drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch or channel or any other device for carrying off sullage, sewage, offensive matter, trade wastes, polluted water, rain water and sub-soil water; (iii) conservancy which means the removal and disposal of sewage, offensive matter and rubbish and includes scavenging. Joint Water and Drainage Board