Public Health Act Cap 242 in Kenya

Upon the occurrence on any vessel of any case of or death from any notifiable infectious disease, or of such other disease as the Minister may prescribe, or of any sickness or mortality among rodents or other animals on any vessel or within the harbour area suspected to be due to any formidable...

In the case of any vessel having, or suspected on reasonable grounds of having, on board in any person, animal or thing the infection of any infectious disease, the port health officer, acting in accordance with instructions and with rules made under this Part, may grant or continue pratique to such...

(1) The Minister may, by order— (a) declare that any place beyond or within Kenya is infected with a formidable epidemic disease or that a formidable epidemic disease is liable to be brought or carried from or through that place, and thereupon, and for so long as such order remains in force, that...

(1) The master of any vessel bound for any port or place in Kenya which comes from or calls or touches at any proclaimed place shall, while his vessel is at that place and during the voyage to Kenya, take in respect of the vessel and her crew, passengers and cargo all such precautionary measures as...

Where a vessel has been placed in quarantine at any port or place in Kenya, the Minister may, for the purpose of more effectually dealing with the infection on board, require the master thereof to remove such vessel, at his own risk and expense, to any other port or place within territorial waters....

(1) Where the master of a vessel has been informed by the port health officer or other duly authorized officer of the intention of placing that vessel in quarantine or of requiring him to move that vessel in quarantine to another port or place in Kenya and where such master declines to submit to...

(1) Where any person on board of any vessel is suffering from any infectious or other disease and, in the opinion of the port health officer, is not accommodated or is not being nursed or treated in such manner as to guard adequately against the spread of the disease or to promote recovery, the port...

(1) Where any person on board of any vessel is believed to have been recently exposed to the infection, and may be in the incubation stage of any notifiable infectious disease, the port health officer may require such person to remain on board such vessel, or alternatively to land and proceed direct...

Where there is any dead body on board any vessel at any port or place in Kenya, it shall be the duty of the master of such vessel to cause such body to be properly buried; any reasonable and necessary expenses thereby incurred may be recovered by the master from any person legally liable for the...

Whenever the port health officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the master of any vessel has committed an offence under this Act or fails or refuses to pay any charges lawfully made thereunder, the Commissioner of Customs and Excise or any officer authorized thereto by the Commissioner...

(1) When it is considered necessary for the purpose of preventing the introduction of infectious disease into Kenya, the Minister may, by order— (a) regulate, restrict or prohibit the entry into Kenya at its inland borders or any part thereof or any persons, or of persons of any specified class or...

(1) The Minister may enter into agreements with the Government of any foreign country, providing for the reciprocal notification of outbreaks of any formidable epidemic or other disease of any other matter affecting the public health relations of Kenya with other countries. (2) The terms or a...

The Minister may make rules— (a) prescribing the powers and duties of port health officers and the procedure to be followed in the examination of, and the granting of pratique to, vessels, and requiring every master of a vessel on arrival at any port or place in Kenya to furnish a declaration of...

(1) Any order or rule made under this Part may provide exemptions therefrom, may define the disease to which any particular provision shall apply and may impose duties in connexion therewith on masters or owners or agents of vessels or on persons in charge of railway trains or of vehicles, or on...

Wherever under this Part powers are exercised by the Minister or other officer in accordance therewith and with the rules, and by reason of the exercise of such powers— (a) any vessel, person, article or thing is delayed or removed or detained; or (b) any article or thing is damaged or...

For the purposes of this Part— “asylum” means any building or collection of buildings erected and established under section 77 and used for the treatment or detention of persons affected with leprosy, together with the land surrounding such buildings and set apart and defined under the said...

(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister to erect and establish from time to time asylums for the detention of persons removed thereto under this Act, and for the purpose of acquiring sites for the erection and establishment of asylums to appropriate and set apart any unalienated public land, and to...

(1) Whenever it comes to the knowledge of any person that some other person within a specified area outside an asylum and not exempted under section 102 from the provisions of this Act is affected with or is suspected of being affected with leprosy, such first-named person shall forthwith report...

Every magistrate to whom a report is made under section 78 shall issue an order requiring a police officer to take steps that the person mentioned in such report be detained in a place of isolation in a manner prescribed by rules under this Act until he has been examined as in section 80 provided.

A magistrate who has issued such isolation order as aforesaid shall cause the person to be examined as soon as possible by two medical practitioners, one of whom shall if possible be a medical officer, and obtain a report from them of such examination.

If such medical practitioners aforesaid report that the person alleged to be affected with leprosy is not so affected, the magistrate shall forthwith discharge him from detention in isolation.

(1) If such medical practitioners aforesaid report that the person alleged to be affected with leprosy is so affected, or that it is doubtful whether he is so affected or not, the magistrate shall order him as in this section described to be removed to an asylum therein to be detained in accordance...

Any superintendent who has received any person into an asylum under an interim reception order shall as soon thereafter as possible transmit to the Minister— (a) the interim reception order; (b) the reports of the medical practitioners mentioned in section 80.

If any person within a specified area suspects that he is affected with leprosy and desires to submit himself to treatment therefor or to be placed in isolation in accordance with this Act, he may for such purpose present himself to a magistrate of the district in which he is residing, and such...

(1) Whenever the Minister is satisfied that any person detained under an interim reception order as aforesaid is affected with leprosy, he shall make and sign an order (herein described as a detention order), which shall be addressed to the superintendent of some asylum. (2) A detention order...

(1) Whenever the Minister is not satisfied that a person detained under an interim reception order is affected with leprosy, he shall submit all medical reports transmitted to him under this Act concerning such person to the Director of Medical Services, and may direct any further medical...

The Minister may, notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, at any time on sufficient reason to him appearing, issue an order to the superintendent of any asylum directing the discharge of any person from detention therein or the removal of any person detained therein to another asylum for...

(1) The Minister may appoint from time to time superintendents, who shall have the direction and management of any asylum to which they are respectively appointed but shall in carrying out their powers and duties be subject to the supervision and directions of the Director of Medical Services....

It shall be the duty of every superintendent to inspect from time to time in accordance with rules made hereunder the asylum to which he has been appointed and the persons detained therein, and to cause proper food and necessary comforts to be supplied to such persons, and to cause the premises to...

(1) No person shall be permitted to enter any asylum except in accordance with the rules made in that behalf under this Act. (2) Except as in this Act provided and save as may be provided by any rules made thereunder, no communication or intercourse shall be allowed between persons detained in any...