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Privy definition

Privy means an above grade structure allowing for the disposal of excreta not transported by a sewer and which provides privacy and shelter and prevents access to the excreta by flies, rodents, or other vectors.
Privy means an enclosed nonportable toilet into which nonwater−carried human wastes are deposited to a subsur- face storage chamber.
Privy means a structure and necessary appurtenances used for the sanitary disposal or storage of human wastes without the aid of water carriage. It does not include chemical, composting, portable or incinerator toilets.

Examples of Privy in a sentence

  • Reference may also be made to the judgement of the Privy Council in Philips Hong Kong Limited v The Attorney General of Hong Kong delivered on 9 February 1993.

  • Peter, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada .

  • Members of staff are subject to the Charter and Statutes and the Ordinances and Regulations of the University, published in the Calendar, and to any amendments or additions thereto approved by the University Court and, in the case of the Charter and Statutes, the Privy Council.

  • Henceforth, the writ would truly begin to take on the appearance of a safeguard of individual liberty from the government power in its cum causa and ad subjiciendum forms.30 The first executive actions to which habeas corpus was extended were those of the monarch’s Privy Council.The Privy Council managed much of the business of governance on behalf of the crown.

  • Josée, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister for La Francophonie .


More Definitions of Privy

Privy means a portable or fixed sanitary facility used for excretion in a shelter separate and apart from any building and without water-borne disposal.
Privy means a cavity in the ground or a portable above− ground device constructed for toilet uses which receives human excrement either to be partially absorbed directly by the surround- ing soil or stored for decomposition and periodic removal.
Privy means a structure used for the deposition of human body wastes.
Privy means an enclosed nonportable toilet into which human wastes not carried by water are deposited to a subsurface storage chamber that may or may not be watertight.
Privy means a self-enclosure over a watertight structure located in a pit designed to directly receive human excrement.
Privy means a place set apart for defecating or urinating or both, together with the structure comprising such place, the receptacle therein for human excreta and the fittings and apparatus, if any, connected therewith, and includes a closet of the dry type, and aqua privy, a latrine and a urinal;
Privy means PT Privy Identitas Digital.