Public Health Act CAP 242▤
General power to make rules
The Minister shall have power to make rules generally for the carrying out of the purposes of this Act.
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Power of municipal councils respecting mosquitoes, flies, etc.
(1) Every municipal council may, with the approval of the Minister, make bylaws for preventing and abating conditions permitting o…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Power of municipal council outside its area
Nothing in any law specially governing any municipal council shall be construed as preventing such municipal council from exercisi…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Prosecutions
(1) A health authority may, by any of its officers or by any person generally or specially authorized in writing by the authority,…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Proceedings against several persons
Where proceedings under this Act are competent against several persons in respect of the joint act or default of such persons, it…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Liability of secretary or manager of company
Where a contravention of any of the provisions of this Act is committed by any company or corporation, the secretary or manager th…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Penalty where not expressly provided
Any person who is guilty of an offence under or of any contravention of or default in complying with any provision of, this Act sh…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Powers of entry and inspection of premises and penalties for obstruction
(1) Any medical officer of health or health inspector, district surgeon or port health officer, or any police officer of or above…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Defect in form not to invalidate notices, etc.
No defect in the form of any notice or order made under this Act shall invalidate or render unlawful the administrative action, or…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Power and duties of officers of department
The Deputy Director of Medical Services, or any assistant director of medical services, medical officer of health, port health off…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Service of notices, etc.
Notices, orders and other documents required or authorized to be served under this Act may be served by delivering the same to or…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Notices, etc., may be printed or written
Notices, orders and other documents under this Act may be in writing or print, or partly in writing and partly in print, and if th…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Supervision of importation or manufacture of vaccines, etc.
(1) The Minister may provide for the inspection, sampling and examination, by officers of the Medical Department, of vaccines, vac…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Control of irrigated land, and rules for the regulation of standing or running water
(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 irrig…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Regulation of public washermen
Every local authority may by public notice prohibit the washing of clothes by washermen in the exercise of their calling except at…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Board may apply for additional public latrines on unleased public land
When in the opinion of the local authority additional public latrine accommodation is required in any locality upon unleased publi…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Markets
For the purposes of this Act, the Minister may make rules for the establishment, control and closing of all markets and market bui…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Regulation of nursing homes, etc.
(1) The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules for the conduct and inspection of nursing homes convalescent homes, p…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Regulation of lodging-houses
The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules for the conduct and inspection of lodging-houses, and no person shall ope…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Basements not to be occupied without permission
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 habitat…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Reimbursement of expenses to the board
(1) All reasonable expenses incurred by the board in consequence of any default in complying with any order or notice issued under…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Closing of cemeteries
It shall be lawful for the Minister to notify in the Gazette that any cemetery or burial ground shall, from a time in such notific…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Record of permits and orders for exhumation
(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…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Exhumation needed for execution of public works may be ordered
(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister, whenever he deems it expedient for the execution of any public work or any public purpose…
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