Public Health Act Cap 242 in Kenya

(1) Subject to the provisions of section 147, it shall not be lawful to exhume any body or the remains of any body which may have been interred in any authorized cemetery or in any other cemetery, burial ground or other place without a permit granted in manner hereinafter provided. (2) Such permit...

(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister, whenever he deems it expedient for the execution of any public work or any public purpose, to remove any body or the remains of any body from any grave whether in an authorized cemetery or elsewhere, and by order under his hand to direct such removal to be...

(1) There shall be kept a record of every permit granted and of every order made under section 146 or section 147. (2) Such record shall contain particulars, so far as the same can be ascertained, of the race, nationality, name, sex and age of the persons buried, the date of burial and the place...

It shall be lawful for the Minister to notify in the Gazette that any cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such notification to be specified, be closed, and the same shall be closed accordingly, and whosoever, after the said specified time, buries any body or the remains of any body in...

(1) All reasonable expenses incurred by the board in consequence of any default in complying with any order or notice issued under this Act shall be deemed to be money paid for the use and at the request of the person on whom the said order or notice was made, and shall be recoverable from him at...

It shall not be lawful to live in, occupy or use, or to let or sublet, or to suffer or permit to be used, any basement for habitation, nor shall it be lawful, without the written permission of the medical officer of health, to use such basement as a shop, workshop or factory, or for the preparation...

The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules for the conduct and inspection of lodging-houses, and no person shall open, or keep open, a lodging house unless the house is registered and the keeper thereof is licensed by the local authority.

(1) The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules for the conduct and inspection of nursing homes convalescent homes, private hospitals, private mental hospitals, maternity homes, infirmaries or any institutions where invalids, convalescents or children are treated or received upon...

For the purposes of this Act, the Minister may make rules for the establishment, control and closing of all markets and market buildings.

When in the opinion of the local authority additional public latrine accommodation is required in any locality upon unleased public land, the local authority shall apply in writing to the Minister, specifying the site upon which it desires the erection of a public latrine, and the accommodation to...

Every local authority may by public notice prohibit the washing of clothes by washermen in the exercise of their calling except at public wash-houses or at such other places as it may appoint for the purpose.

(1) Where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister, upon the advice of the board, that the growing of any crop or the irrigation of any land being within the boundaries of a township or within three miles of such boundaries is unhealthful or insanitary, the Minister may, after consultation...

(1) The Minister may provide for the inspection, sampling and examination, by officers of the Medical Department, of vaccines, vaccine lymphs, sera and similar substances imported or manufactured in Kenya and intended or used for the prevention or treatment of human diseases, and may prohibit the...

Notices, orders and other documents under this Act may be in writing or print, or partly in writing and partly in print, and if the same require authentication by the board, or a local authority, the signature thereof respectively by the secretary, town clerk, medical officer of health, sanitary...

Notices, orders and other documents required or authorized to be served under this Act may be served by delivering the same to or at the residence of the person to whom they are respectively addressed, or where addressed to the owner or occupier of premises by delivering the same, or a true copy...

The Deputy Director of Medical Services, or any assistant director of medical services, medical officer of health, port health officer or medical officer of the department, may with the authority and on behalf of the Director of Medical Services discharge any of the duties or functions of the...

No defect in the form of any notice or order made under this Act shall invalidate or render unlawful the administrative action, or be a ground for exception to any legal proceedings, which may be taken in the matter to which such notice or order relates, provided the requirements thereof are...

(1) Any medical officer of health or health inspector, district surgeon or port health officer, or any police officer of or above the rank of Inspector, or any other person generally or specially authorized in writing by the Director of Medical Services, medical officer of health or municipal...

Any person who is guilty of an offence under or of any contravention of or default in complying with any provision of, this Act shall, if no penalty is expressly provided for such offence, contravention or default, be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand shillings, or to...

Where a contravention of any of the provisions of this Act is committed by any company or corporation, the secretary or manager thereof may be summoned and shall be held liable for such contravention and the consequences thereof.

Where proceedings under this Act are competent against several persons in respect of the joint act or default of such persons, it shall be sufficient to proceed against one or more of them without proceeding against the others.

(1) A health authority may, by any of its officers or by any person generally or specially authorized in writing by the authority, prosecute for any contravention of, offence against, or default in complying with, any provision of this Act or any rule made or deemed to be made thereunder, if the...

Nothing in any law specially governing any municipal council shall be construed as preventing such municipal council from exercising any power or performing any duty under this Act by reason only that in exercising such power or performing such duty it must do some act or thing or incur expenditure...

(1) Every municipal council may, with the approval of the Minister, make bylaws for preventing and abating conditions permitting or favouring the breeding of mosquitoes and flies and, generally, for the prevention of malaria and other insect-borne diseases. (2) Section 135A(2) shall apply in...

The Minister shall have power to make rules generally for the carrying out of the purposes of this Act.