Malaysia legislation

Section 81

of *LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1976

Section 81

Nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act

(a)

any premises or part thereof of such a construction or in such a state as to be a nuisance;

(b)

any animal kept in such place or manner or in such numbers as to be a nuisance;

(c)

any accumulation or deposit which is a nuisance or is or is likely to become a breeding place for mosquitoes or flies or any vermin;

(d)

any factory, workshop or work-place which is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be a nuisance;

(e)

any huts or sheds, whether used as dwellings or as stables or for any other purpose, which are by reason of the manner in which the huts or sheds are crowded together or the want of drainage or the impracticability of scavenging or for any other reason a nuisance;

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(f)

any pool or ditch the water from which is used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purpose or for manufacturing drink for the use of man and which is so polluted or is likely to become a nuisance;

(g)

any tank, well, pool, water-course, ditch or low marshy ground which is injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or is likely to become a breeding place for mosquitoes;

(h)

any fire-place or furnace and any chimney sending off smoke or other unconsumed combustible matter in such quantity as to be a nuisance;

(i)

any brick-field, sandpit or any other kind of excavation which is injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood or used for any purpose likely to become a nuisance;

(j)

any dust or effluvia caused by any trade, business, manufacture or process which is prejudicial to health or offensive to the neighbourhood; and

(k)

any other matter declared by the State Authority to be a nuisance, shall be liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act.

Notice requiring abatement of nuisance