Section 97 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Photographing of persons confined in asylums

Any person who is guilty of an offence under this Part shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.

The Minister may make rules and prescribe the penalties for the breach thereof not exceeding the penalties mentioned in section 98— (a) for the isolation, examination and removal to asylums of...

Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, the examination and report of one medical practitioner shall suffice for the purpose of an interim reception order under this Act, whenever undue delay...

It shall be the duty of every police officer to execute any lawful order of the Minister, or any magistrate issued under this Act, and any person resisting or obstructing any magistrate, medical...

(1) If the Minister is satisfied that proper provision will be made for the care, comfort and custody of persons affected with leprosy, and for regulating intercourse between such persons and persons...

For the purposes of this Part— “child” means a person who is under, or who appears to be under, fifteen years of age; “public vaccinator” includes a public vaccinator appointed by the Director of...

The parent or guardian of every child in Kenya shall, unless such child is insusceptible or unfit or has suffered from smallpox, cause such child to be successfully vaccinated by a public vaccinator,...

(1) Every unvaccinated adult person, or the parent or guardian of every unvaccinated child, in or entering Kenya shall cause himself or such child to be successfully vaccinated within twelve months...

In the event of the occurrence or threatened outbreak of smallpox in any area— (a) the medical officer of health or the district surgeon or other Government medical officer may require are person to...

(1) If any public vaccinator or medical practitioner is of opinion that any adult or child is not in a fit state to be vaccinated, he shall give to the adult or to the parent or guardian of the child...

(1) If any public vaccinator or medical practitioner finds that any adult or child whom he has three times unsuccessfully vaccinated is insusceptible of successful vaccination, or that the adult or...

Every public vaccinator or medical practitioner who has performed the operation of vaccination upon any adult or child, and has ascertained that the same has been successful, shall deliver to such...

(1) No fee or remuneration shall be charged to the person vaccinated by any public vaccinator for any certificate granted under this Act, nor for any vaccination done by him in pursuance of this Act....

Every superintendent or person in charge of a leper asylum or mental hospital or chronic sick hospital, jail, prison, reformatory, penitentiary or other similar institution shall cause to be...

(1) No child shall be admitted to or attend any school until there has been produced to the person in charge thereof a certificate or other satisfactory evidence that the provisions of this Part in...

Any person who inoculates himself or any other person with material taken from a person suffering from smallpox or from a vaccine vesicle on another person or by any method not prescribed in the rules...

The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules— (a) prescribing the form of certificates, notices, returns and books of record to be used in connexion with public vaccination, and defining...

No person shall cause a nuisance or shall suffer to exist on any land or premises owned or occupied by him or of which he is in charge any nuisance or other condition liable to be injurious or...

It shall be the duty of every local authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures for maintaining its district at all times in clean and sanitary condition, and for...

It shall be the duty of every health authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures for preventing or causing to be prevented or remedied all conditions liable to be...

(1) The following shall be deemed to be nuisances liable to be dealt with in the manner provided in this Part— (a) any vessel, and any railway carriage or other conveyance, in such a state or...

The medical officer of health, if satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, shall serve a notice on the author of the nuisance or, if he cannot be found, on the occupier or owner of the dwelling or...

(1) If the person on whom a notice to remove a nuisance has been served as aforesaid fails to comply with any of the requirements thereof within the time specified, the medical officer of health shall...

(1) Any person who fails to obey an order to comply with the requirements of the medical officer of health or otherwise to remove the nuisance shall, unless he satisfies the court that he has used all...

Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the person by whose act or default the nuisance arises, or that the owner or occupier of the premises, is not known or cannot be found, the...

The health authority or any of its officers, or the medical officer of health, or any sanitary inspector, or, on the order of a magistrate, any police officer of or above the rank of Inspector, may...

(1) Where any such nuisance as is mentioned in section 118 is proved to exist with respect to a dwelling, and the court is satisfied that such dwelling is so dilapidated or so defectively constructed...

It shall be the duty of the Medical Department— (a) to collect, investigate and consider and publish the facts as to any overcrowding or bad or insufficient housing in the various districts of...

The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules and may confer powers and impose duties in connexion with the carrying out and enforcement thereof on local authorities, magistrates, owners...

(1) Every municipal council and every urban and area council may, and shall if so required by the Minister for the time being responsible for local government with the agreement of the Minister, make...

Where a local authority considers that the operation of any building by-law made by it under section 126A would be unreasonable in relation to any particular case, it may, with the consent of the...

(1) Where plans of any proposed work are, in accordance with any building by-laws made under section 126A, deposited with a local authority, the local authority shall, subject to any other provisions...

(1) If any work, to which building by-laws made under section 126A are applicable, contravenes any of those by-laws, the local authority which made them, without prejudice to its right to take...

(1) All warehouses, godowns or buildings of whatever nature used for the storage of foodstuffs shall be constructed of such materials and in such manner as shall in the opinion of the medical officer...

(1) No person shall reside or sleep in any kitchen or room in which foodstuffs are prepared or stored for sale. (2) If it appears to the medical officer of health that any such kitchen or room is...

It shall be the duty of every local authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures— (a) for preventing any pollution dangerous to health of any supply of water which the...

(1) The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make, and impose on local authorities and others the duty of enforcing, rules in respect of defined areas— (a) prohibiting bathing in, and...

(1) No person shall sell or expose for sale or import or bring into any market or have in his possession without reasonable excuse any food for man in a tainted, adulterated, diseased or unwholesome...

Any medical officer of health, or other person duly authorized by the health authority in writing, may, at any time between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., enter any shop or premises used for the sale...

Any person in whose possession there is found any food liable to seizure under section 131 or section 132 shall further be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand...

The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules regarding all or any of the following matters— (a) the inspection of dairy stock and of animals intended for human consumption, and of...

The Minister, on the advice of the Board, may make orders— (a) requiring the medical examination of any person in any premises in which any milk or dairy produce or other article of food intended...

(1) Every municipal council may with the approval of the Minister make bylaws applicable to its area for all or any of the following purposes— (a) for regulating, supervising and licensing purveyors...

For the purposes of this Act— (a) all collections of water, sewage, rubbish, refuse, ordure or other fluid or solid substances which permit or facilitate the breeding or multiplication of animal or...

(1) The occupier or owner of any premises shall keep such premises free from all bottles, whole or broken, whether fixed on walls or not, tins, boxes, calabashes, earthenware vessels, shells or any...

No person shall within a township permit any premises or lands owned or occupied by him or over which he has control to become overgrown with bush or long grass of such a nature as, in the opinion of...

(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to keep, or for the occupier or owner of any premises to allow to be kept thereon, any collection of water in any well, barrel, tub, bucket, tank or other...

The occupier or owner of any premises upon or attached to which is any cesspit shall cause such cesspit to be properly protected or screened to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health so as...

It shall be lawful for the medical officer of health by written notice to require the occupier or owner of any premises upon or attached to which is any gutter, pipe, groove or waterway used or...

Where any of the immature stages of the mosquito are found on any premises in any collection of water in any cesspit, well, pool, channel, barrel, tub, bucket, tank or any other vessel, or in any...