Village Sanitation Act of the Provinces of Jammu and Kashmir

No: 5 Dated: Jul, 26 1990

THE VILLAGE SANITATION ACT, 1990 (1933 A. D.)

(Act No. V of Samvat 1990)

    An Act to make better provision for sanitation in villages in the Provinces of Jammu and Kashmir.

    Whereas it is expedient to make better provision for sanitation in villages in the Provinces of Jammu and Kashmir ;

It is hereby commanded as follows :—

1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Village Sanitation Act of the Provinces of Jammu and Kashmir.’’

(2) It extends to the Provinces of Jammu and Kashmir.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions.— In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context.—

(1) ‘‘village’’ means an inhabited site, but does not include a municipality ;

(2) ‘‘village lands’’ means the lands included in the revenue Mauza or Mauzas in which the village is situated ;

(3) ‘‘well’’ or ‘‘spring’’ means a well or spring the water of which is habitually used for drinking purposes by all or some of the inhabitants of a village ;

(4) ‘‘Magistrate’’ means the District Magistrate or any other Executive Magistrate especially authorised in this behalf by the Government ;

(5) ‘‘proprietor of village lands’’ means the proprietor who is responsible to pay Government revenue for the village lands and in the Province of Kashmir it will include the Assami responsible for the payment of Government revenue.

3. Local enquiry as to sufficiency and purity of water supply in a village.— In any village which the Government or any officer appointed by the Government in this behalf may, from time to time by special order, direct the Magistrate may cause a local enquiry to be made, through the agency prescribed by rules made under section 13, into the sufficiency and purity of the water supply and general sanitary condition of the village, with a view to ascertaining any of the following matters :—

(1) whether the water of any well or spring is contaminated from surface drainage, or from any other cause against which effective measures of protection cannot be taken ;

(2) whether the water of any well, spring or river is dangerous to health and its impurity is due to causes against which effective measures of protection cannot be taken ;

(3) whether it is necessary for the health of the inhabitants of the village that there should be provision for general conservancy, for protection and periodical examination of the water supply, for regulation of building of houses, for prohibition of excavations, and for defining and prohibiting public nuisances in or near any village.