Public Health Act CAP 242▤
By-laws as to buildings and sanitation
(1) Every municipal council and every urban and area council may, and shall if so required by the Minister for the time being resp…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Rules under Part
The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules and may confer powers and impose duties in connexion with the carrying ou…
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Duty of department as to overcrowding, etc.
It shall be the duty of the Medical Department— (a) to collect, investigate and consider and publish the facts as to any overcrowd…
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Demolition of unfit dwellings
(1) Where any such nuisance as is mentioned in section 118 is proved to exist with respect to a dwelling, and the court is satisfi…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Examination of premises
The health authority or any of its officers, or the medical officer of health, or any sanitary inspector, or, on the order of a ma…
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Court may order health authority to execute works in certain cases
Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the person by whose act or default the nuisance arises, or that the owne…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Penalty respecting nuisances
(1) Any person who fails to obey an order to comply with the requirements of the medical officer of health or otherwise to remove…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Procedure if owner fails to comply with notice
(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…
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Notice to remove nuisance
The medical officer of health, if satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, shall serve a notice on the author of the nuisance or,…
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What constitutes nuisance
(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…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Health authorities to prevent or remedy danger to health from unsuitable dwellings
It shall be the duty of every health authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures for preventing or…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Local authorities to maintain cleanliness and prevent nuisances
It shall be the duty of every local authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures for maintaining it…
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Nuisances prohibited
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 ch…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Rules
The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules— (a) prescribing the form of certificates, notices, returns and books of…
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Prohibited methods of inoculation
Any person who inoculates himself or any other person with material taken from a person suffering from smallpox or from a vaccine…
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School children to be vaccinated
(1) No child shall be admitted to or attend any school until there has been produced to the person in charge thereof a certificate…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Vaccination of inmates of institutions
Every superintendent or person in charge of a leper asylum or mental hospital or chronic sick hospital, jail, prison, reformatory,…
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No fee to be charged by public vaccinator, and certificate to contain description of person vaccinated
(1) No fee or remuneration shall be charged to the person vaccinated by any public vaccinator for any certificate granted under th…
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Certificate to be given for successful vaccination
Every public vaccinator or medical practitioner who has performed the operation of vaccination upon any adult or child, and has as…
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Person insusceptible of successful vaccination
(1) If any public vaccinator or medical practitioner finds that any adult or child whom he has three times unsuccessfully vaccinat…
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Person unfit for vaccination
(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,…
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Emergency vaccination of population in area threatened with smallpox
In the event of the occurrence or threatened outbreak of smallpox in any area— (a) the medical officer of health or the district s…
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Vaccination of persons entering Kenya
(1) Every unvaccinated adult person, or the parent or guardian of every unvaccinated child, in or entering Kenya shall cause himse…
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Vaccination of children
The parent or guardian of every child in Kenya shall, unless such child is insusceptible or unfit or has suffered from smallpox, c…
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