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1) Where any well, tank, cistern, reservoir, receptacle, or other place in the cantonment where water is stored or accumulates, whether within any private enclosure or not, is in such a condition as to create a nuisance or, in the opinion of the Health Officer, or the Assistant Health Officer, is or is likely to be a breeding place for mosquitoes, the [Board] may, by notice in writing, require, the owner, lessee or occupier thereof, within such period as may be specified in the notice, to fill up or cover the well, cistern, reservoir or receptacle, or to fill up the tank, or to drain off or remove the water, as the case may be.
(2) Thea[Board] may, if it thinks fit, with the previous sanction of theb[Officer Commanding-in- Chief, the Command],c[or the Director], meet the whole or any portion of the expenses incurred in complying with a requisition under sub-section (1). Act 15 of 1983, Clause 87.- This clause seeks to amendsection 134of the Act to provide that the power to sanction expenditure for filling up of tank. reservoir, etc., on the recommendation of the Health Officer could also be exercised by the Director. Defence Lands and Cantonments, the Command, in addition to Officer Commanding-in-Chitf. the Command. -Gaz. of Ind.. 9-7-1982. Pt. II, S. 2, Ext., p. 54 (No. 26).