Section 4
Power to exempt.
The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993
About this Act
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment of manual scavengers as well as construction or continuance of dry latrines and for the regulation of construction and maintenance of water-seal latrines and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The State Government may, by a general or special order published in the
Official Gazette, and upon such conditions, if any, as it may think fit to impose, exempt any area,
category of buildings or class of persons from any provisions of this Act or from any specified
requirement contained in this Act or any rule, order, notification or scheme made thereunder or dispense
with the observance of any such requirement in a class or classes of cases, if it is satisfied that compliance with such provisions or such requirement is or ought to be exempted or dispensed with in the
circumstances of the case.