Section 178: Sanitation works

178. Sanitation works (1) (a) The President may, having regard to vested rights, direct the execution on State land and private land of works for improving the sanitary condition of any area in the Island of Mauritius. (b) These works shall include the— (i) draining of marshes or other lakes, ponds or other low-lying grounds where water may accumulate; (ii) straightening or other variation of the courses of rivers; (iii) alteration of the levels of beds of rivers to provide for the better flow of water; (iv) removal or reconstruction of dykes and dams in rivers; and (v) canalisation of river courses and the removal of vegetable, other growth or impediments in, and along the banks of lakes, ponds or river courses and along and around the dykes and dams referred to in subparagraph (iv). (2) Notwithstanding the Rivers and Canals Act, it shall not be necessary to apply to the Supreme Court for authority to execute any works under subsection (1) in or in respect of any river, lake or pond. [S. 178 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]