For the purpose of these Regulations, the following shall be nuisances—
(a) any place, matter or thing, or deposit, or accumulation of liquid or soiled matter that is so full, or in such a state, or so placed or made or left, as to be insanitary or injurious or dangerous to health or likely to become so;
(b)
(i) the existence of flies or mosquitoes or other insects capable of transmitting or causing disease,
(ii) the existence of bed bugs, cockroaches or other vermin,
(iii) the existence of mice, rats or other like rodents;
(c) the existence of any condition, matter or thing, which in the opinion of the medical officer of health or environmental health officer provides food for, or harbourage, or acts as a breeding place for insects or vermin rodents; (Amended by S.I. 17/2020)
(d) any yard or enclosure or other place not kept properly weeded, dry and clean;
(e) any gutter or ditch not kept free from bush, grass and weeds and collection of water;
(f) the presence on any premises or in any place of empty bottles (broken or otherwise) empty tins, coconut shells uncovered barrel boxes, or anything that will serve as a receptacle for water or as a breeding place for mosquitoes or other insects;
(g) any caves, gutter or drain pipe in which water has collected at a spot therein;
(h) any tree or other erection which interferes with the entrance of sunlight into or with free ventilation of any neighbouring premises or building which is dangerous to public health and safety;
(i) any part of a house or building where the number of occupants is greater than the square area of the building allowed for in accordance with any special order, regulation or law;
(j) any house not sufficiently supplied with water, having regard to number of occupants and the means of supply thereto;
(k) any water supply system which is not maintained in a sanitary manner;
(l) any water tap, pipe, or pump or other means of obtaining water which is needlessly allowed to run to waste or under water is allowed to accumulate or become stagnant;
(m) any sanitary conveniences not constructed and maintained in accordance with any regulation or law;
(n) any water supply system in such a state or condition that the water passing through therein when used for domestic purposes could be injurious to health;
(o) any sanitary convenience so located with regard to any neighbouring house or for any other reason as to be insanitary or injurious, or dangerous to health or likely to become so;
(p) any discharge save in accordance with a valid permit granted by the Public Health Board into any river, stream, water course, of any other industrial, other noxious matter, whether or not a prescriptive right has been acquired to any such pollution;
(q) any workplace—
(i) not ventilated so as to render harmless to the workers employed therein, all gases, vapours, dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work carried on therein, or
(ii) so overcrowded as to be injurious to the health of the persons employed therein;
(r) any chimney, incinerator or other fire sending forth smoke in such quantity as is calculated to be injurious to health or atmospheric pollution or including other gases, for the purposes of this paragraph smoke includes “grit and ashes”; (Amended by S.I. 17/2020)
(s) an accumulation or deposit of solid waste of human or animal excreta; (Inserted by S.I. 17/2020)
(t) an animal which is kept in such a manner as to become hazardous to health; (Inserted by S.I. 17/2020)
(u) the carcass of an animal which is not buried or destroyed within 24 hours of the animal's death. (Inserted by S.I. 17/2020)