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Power to require removal of nuisance arising from tanks and the like. - The committee may, by notice, require the owner or occupier of any land or building to cleanse, repair, cover, fill up or drain off any private well, tank, reservoir, pool, de- pression or excavation therein which may appear to the committee to be injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood : Provided that if for the purpose of affecting any drainage under this section it should be necessary to acquire any land not belonging to the same owner or to pay compensation to any person, the committee shall provide such land or pay such compensation. 72 The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 129