RATS INFESTATION (PREVENTION) REGULATIONS

RATS INFESTATION (PREVENTION)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.02

RATS INFESTATION (PREVENTION)

REGULATIONS

12th December, 1919

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 516 of 1919.

The title of these Regulations is Rats Infestation

(Prevention) Regulations.

The owner or occupier of any land, dwelling or other

building shall not keep or allow to be kept on them any

accumulation of rags, tins, boxes, bottles and other articles that

may afford harbourage for rats, and shall take reasonable and

proper precautions to prevent such dwelling or other building

becoming infested by rats.

It shall be the duty of the owner of any building to keep in

a good state of repair the walls and floors of basements and the

floors of yards and of ground-floors, with a view to prevent rats and

mice burrowing into and forming runs in such buildings.

These Regulations may also be applied, at the discretion of

the Superintendent of Public Health, to premises licensed under

article 130 of the Code of Police Laws.