Public Health Act Cap 242 in Kenya

(1) Every person placed in isolation or during the course of removal to or while detained in an asylum under this Act shall be deemed to be in lawful custody until discharged therefrom under this Act, and while in such custody shall be subject to the provisions of this Act any rules made thereunder....

Every person detained in lawful custody under this Act shall be permitted to receive visits from relatives, friends or legal advisers at such reasonable times and subject to such restrictions as may be determined by rules made under this Act.

The cost of the erection, establishment and maintenance of asylums, of the removal of persons thereto, of the maintenance of persons detained therein (save in so far as such cost of maintenance may be otherwise defrayed in accordance with section 94, of the salaries and wages of superintendents,...

It shall be lawful, subject to the approval of the Minister, for the superintendent in the case of any inmate of an asylum under this Part to receive or recover from such inmate the expense of his maintenance, and to allow such inmate or any other person to erect for the inmate (or contract for the...

(1) The High Court may appoint a manager for the temporary or permanent care and administration of any property of a person removed to an asylum for detention under this Act, and Part XI of the Mental Treatment Act (Cap. 248) shall mutatis mutandis apply for the purposes of such care and...

Whenever any person has been placed in isolation by order of a magistrate under section 79, the medical officer of health shall cause the residence of that person to be forthwith cleansed and disinfected.

(1) It shall be the duty of every person detained in an asylum under this Act to submit himself to be photographed from time to time as the superintendent shall think fit. (2) Any such person who refuses to allow himself to be photographed as aforesaid, or obstructs any person entrusted with this...

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 person affected or suspected of being affected with leprosy; (b) for the appointment and duties 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 or inconvenience would result in obtaining an examination and report by two medical practitioners:...

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 practitioner or other person charged with a duty under this Act in the execution of the duty shall be...

(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 not so affected in any private leper asylum, he may by notice in the Gazette exempt from the...

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 Medical Services and any person appointed by the Director of Medical Services to assist or act for a...

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, or other medical practitioner, and the parent or guardian of every such child shall procure one of...

(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 after entering Kenya. (2) The conditions and exceptions mentioned in section 104 shall mutatis...

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 be forthwith vaccinated or revaccinated who has or is suspected to have been in any way recently...

(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 a certificate under his hand according to Form No. 1 in the Schedule, or to the like effect, that...

(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 child coming or brought to him for vaccination has already been successfully inoculated or had the...

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 adult or to the parent or guardian of such child a certificate in Form No. 3 in the Schedule, or to the...

(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. (2) A public vaccinator or medical practitioner giving any certificate under this Act shall enter...

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 vaccinated within fourteen days following his admission to such institution every inmate thereof who, being...

(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 respect of such child have been complied with. (2) For the purpose of ascertaining whether the...

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 shall be guilty of an offence.

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 the information to be furnished therein, and requiring the furnishing and prescribing the manner of...

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 dangerous to health.

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 preventing the occurrence therein of, or for remedying or causing to be remedied, any nuisance or...

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 injurious or dangerous to health arising from the erection or occupation of unhealthy dwellings or...

(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 condition as to be injurious or dangerous to health; (b) any dwelling or premises or part thereof which...

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 premises on which the nuisance arises or continues, requiring him to remove it within the time...

(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 cause a complaint relating to such nuisance to be made before a magistrate, and such magistrate...