Cap. 465 Art. 12Abatement notices.

(1) When the Superintendent or an authorised officer believes, on reasonable grounds, that any requirement under this Act or under any regulation made thereunder is not being complied with he may issue an abatement notice to any person whom he believes is responsible to comply or ensure compliance with such requirement: Provided that an abatement notice may be issued to different persons when the responsibility for complying falls on more than one person.

(2) An abatement notice shall be in writing and shall contain:

(a) all relevant details relating to the infringement; and

(b) the address or an indication of the place where the infringement is taking place; and

(c) an order stating what is required to be done to comply with the notice.

(3) An abatement notice may be given orally by the Superintendent or an authorised officer -

(a) in urgent cases; or

(b) if it proves impossible to serve it in written form.

(4) An abatement notice shall be served in writing:

(a) at either the residential or commercial address of the person on whom the abatement notice is to be served;

(b) or, where the person on whom an abatement notice is to be served cannot be found, by affixing the abatement notice onto the premises, where the infringement is taking place, and any person who removes or in any way interferes with an abatement notice so affixed shall be guilty of an offence.

(5) Any person or persons, on whom an abatement notice is served, shall abate the nuisance without delay and in any case not later than such time indicated in the abatement notice: Provided that the indication of any such time in the abatement notice shall be without prejudice to any other action that may be taken by the Superintendent or any authorised officer before the expiry thereof.

(6) Any person on whom an abatement notice has been served and who fails to comply with any of the requirements of the notice, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and the Court may apart from awarding punishment, order the accused to undertake such works so as to prevent the reoccurrence of the infringement.