Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Permit to exhume
(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…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Authorized cemeteries
All cemeteries now being used as such, and such other cemeteries as may be authorized by the Minister, notice whereof shall be pub…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Dead to be buried in appointed cemeteries
(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister to select and appoint and to notify in the Gazette sufficient and proper places to be the…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Mere presence of mosquito larvae an offence
Notwithstanding any provision of this Act, the occupier or owner of any house or premises, or the owner or person having the charg…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Larvae, etc., may be destroyed
Where any of the immature stages of the mosquito are found on any premises in any collection of water in any cesspit, well, pool,…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Gutters may be required to be perforated
It shall be lawful for the medical officer of health by written notice to require the occupier or owner of any premises upon or at…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Cesspits to be screened
The occupier or owner of any premises upon or attached to which is any cesspit shall cause such cesspit to be properly protected o…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Wells, etc., to be covered
(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 c…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Premises not to be overgrown
No person shall within a township permit any premises or lands owned or occupied by him or over which he has control to become ove…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Yards to be kept free from bottles, whole or broken, etc.
(1) The occupier or owner of any premises shall keep such premises free from all bottles, whole or broken, whether fixed on walls…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Breeding places of mosquitoes to be nuisances
For the purposes of this Act— (a) all collections of water, sewage, rubbish, refuse, ordure or other fluid or solid substances whi…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Powers of certain municipal councils respecting milk, etc.
(1) Every municipal council may with the approval of the Minister make bylaws applicable to its area for all or any of the followi…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Orders for protection of food
The Minister, on the advice of the Board, may make orders— (a) requiring the medical examination of any person in any premises in…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Rules for protection of food
The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules regarding all or any of the following matters— (a) the inspection of dair…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Penalty respecting unwholesome food
Any person in whose possession there is found any food liable to seizure under section 131 or section 132 shall further be guilty…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Seizure of unwholesome foods
Any medical officer of health, or other person duly authorized by the health authority in writing, may, at any time between the ho…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Sale of unwholesome food prohibited
(1) No person shall sell or expose for sale or import or bring into any market or have in his possession without reasonable excuse…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Rules for protection of water supplies
(1) The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make, and impose on local authorities and others the duty of enforcing, rules in…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Duty of local authority as to protection of water supplies
It shall be the duty of every local authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures— (a) for preventin…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Prohibition of residing or sleeping in kitchens or food stores
(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…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Construction and regulation of buildings used for storage of foodstuffs
(1) All warehouses, godowns or buildings of whatever nature used for the storage of foodstuffs shall be constructed of such materi…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Power to require removal or alteration of work in certain cases
(1) If any work, to which building by-laws made under section 126A are applicable, contravenes any of those by-laws, the local aut…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Passing or rejection of plans and retention of plans, etc.
(1) Where plans of any proposed work are, in accordance with any building by-laws made under section 126A, deposited with a local…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Power to relax requirements of building by-laws
Where a local authority considers that the operation of any building by-law made by it under section 126A would be unreasonable in…
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