(1) The owner of any premises which are or are likely to be used—
(a) as a place of—
(i) human habitation, or
(ii) habitual employment; or
(b) by any members of the public as a place of—
(i) entertainment,
(ii) refreshment,
(iii) instruction, or
(iv) worship,
shall to the satisfaction of a medical officer of health and environmental health officer—
(A) provide any such premises with sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the disposal of human excreta, and
(B) provide any such premises to which the public are or are likely to be admitted or where persons of both sexes are or are likely to be employed or in attendance, with sufficient and suitable separate sanitary conveniences for persons of each sex.
(Amended by S.I. 27/2020)
(2) For the purpose of this regulation a suitable sanitary convenience shall be—
(a) a properly constructed water closet;
(b) a properly constructed pit latrine;
(c) a properly constructed earth closet;
(d) a properly constructed chemical closet; or
(e) a properly constructed pail latrine,
as may be approved by a medical officer of health and environmental health officer.
(3) A person shall not dispose of sewage from a water closet except by one of the following systems or into one of the following places for which the prior approval of a medical officer of health is required—
(a) into a properly constructed public or private sewerage system;
(b) into a properly constructed suck well or cess pit;
(c) into a properly constructed septic tank; or
(d) into the sea.