Chapter 29:15 URBAN COUNCILS ACT and (b) state that— (i) a plan of the proposed work is lying for inspection at the office of the council and will be open to inspection during office hours for a period of twenty-one days from the date of the last publication of the notice; and (ii) objections to the proposed work may be lodged with the town clerk in writing before a specified date, being not less than thirty days after the date of the last publication of the notice. (3) A copy of the notice referred to in subsection (2) shall be served— (a) on every owner or occupier of property which is referred to in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (2); and (b) if the proposed work involves the discontinuance of the use, the closing up or the destruction of a public sewer, on every owner or occupier of property the private sewers of which discharge, either directly or indirectly, into that public sewer or the portion thereof proposed to be discontinued, closed up or destroyed, as the case may be; and (c) on any local authority having jurisdiction in the area where the proposed work is to be done; and (d) if any road will be affected by the proposed work, on the road authority concerned. 171 Objection to proposed sewage works If any objection is lodged in terms of subsection (2) of section one hundred and sixty-nine or section one hundred and seventy and the council is unable to resolve the objection the council shall notify the Minister who shall appoint a board in terms of section three hundred and twelve for the purpose of determining the objections so lodged and the council shall carry out the proposed work in accordance with any decision of that board. 172 Owners entitled to connect to public sewer Subject to section one hundred and seventy-five, an owner of premises within the council area shall be entitled to have the private sewer of such premises connected directly or indirectly to a public sewer if the public sewer— (a) has been constructed to a point which, in the opinion of the council, is as near to the premises as is in the circumstances reasonably practicable and expedient; and (b) is, in the opinion of the council, of such design and capacity as to permit of the connection thereto of that private sewer. 173 Council may require connection to public sewer, provision of septic or conserving tank and treatment of trade effluent (1) In this section— “septic tank” means a covered tank, complete with effluent overflow, intended to receive sewage and designed to retain such sewage for such a time and in such a manner as to secure adequate decomposition of organic solids by bacterial action. (2) A council may, by notice in writing, require the owner of any premises within the council area which— (a) do not have a private sewer sufficient for the effectual conveyance of sewage therefrom to a public sewer, to construct a private sewer for that purpose to the limits of his property; or (b) do not have adequate sanitary fittings, to provide adequate sanitary fittings which discharge into the private sewer or combined private sewer serving those premises; or (c) are connected, directly or indirectly, to a public sewer, to cause any sanitary fitting to discharge its foul or waste water into the private sewer or combined private sewer serving those premises; or (d) are not connected with a public sewer, to construct a private sewer to the limits of his property which can be connected to a public sewer; and the owner of the premises shall comply therewith within such reasonable time, being not less than thirty days, as is specified in the notice for the compliance therewith. 60