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Section 37: Certain things to be nuisances

The Goa Public Health Act, 1985State Act of Goa · Act 25 of 1985

Without prejudice to the generality of the definition of the expression “nuisance” contained in clause (22) of section 2, the following shall be deemed specifically to be nuisances for the purposes of this Chapter —

(1) any premises in such a state as to be prejudicial to health;

(2) any pond, pool, ditch, gutter, water-course, water-trough, latrine, cesspool, drain or ashpit which is so foul or in such a state as to be prejudicial to health;

(3) any animal kept in such a place or manner as to be prejudicial to health;

(4) any accumulation or deposit of refuse or other matter which is prejudicial to health;

(5) any factory, workshop or workplace, which is not provided with sufficient means of ventilation or in which sufficient ventilation is not maintained, or which is not kept clean or not kept free from noxious effluvia, or which is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be prejudicial to the health of those employed therein;

(6) any fireplace or furnace which does not as practicable consume the smoke arising from the combustible used therein, and which is used for working engines by steam, or in any mill, factory, dyehouse, brewery, bakehouse or gaswork, or in any manufacturing or trade process whatsoever;

(7) any chimney sending forth smoke in such quantity as to be a nuisance; 21[and] ----16----

(8) any noise, vibration, dust, cinders, irritating smell, noxious vapours or offensive odour produced by a factory, workshop or workplace or an installation and which is a nuisance to the neighbourhood ; 22[and] 23[(9) any human habitation without adequate sanitary convenience or without access to sanitary convenience within the premises of the habitation rendering such place in such a state as to be prejudicial to health.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Goa Public Health Act, 1985
Section37
Marginal noteCertain things to be nuisances
JurisdictionState of Goa
StatusIn force as published by the source

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