Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Magistrate to isolate suspect on notification
Every magistrate to whom a report is made under section 78 shall issue an order requiring a police officer to take steps that the…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Duty to notify suspected case of leprosy within specified area
(1) Whenever it comes to the knowledge of any person that some other person within a specified area outside an asylum and not exem…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Establishment of leper asylums
(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister to erect and establish from time to time asylums for the detention of persons removed ther…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Interpretation of Part
For the purposes of this Part— “asylum” means any building or collection of buildings erected and established under section 77 and…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Protection of Government
Wherever under this Part powers are exercised by the Minister or other officer in accordance therewith and with the rules, and by…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Orders, rules and penalties under Part
(1) Any order or rule made under this Part may provide exemptions therefrom, may define the disease to which any particular provis…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Rules concerning port health matters
The Minister may make rules— (a) prescribing the powers and duties of port health officers and the procedure to be followed in the…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Agreements with either governments regarding reciprocal notification of outbreaks
(1) The Minister may enter into agreements with the Government of any foreign country, providing for the reciprocal notification o…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Powers to enforce precautions at frontiers
(1) When it is considered necessary for the purpose of preventing the introduction of infectious disease into Kenya, the Minister…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Clearance papers may be withheld from vessels pending inquiry into offence
Whenever the port health officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the master of any vessel has committed an offence under…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Burial of the bodies of persons dying on board of vessel
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…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Surveillance or isolation of persons who have been exposed to infection
(1) Where any person on board of any vessel is believed to have been recently exposed to the infection, and may be in the incubati…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Removal of patient from vessel and treatment on shore
(1) Where any person on board of any vessel is suffering from any infectious or other disease and, in the opinion of the port heal…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Master of vessel may decline to submit to quarantine or removal
(1) Where the master of a vessel has been informed by the port health officer or other duly authorized officer of the intention of…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Removal of quarantined vessels
Where a vessel has been placed in quarantine at any port or place in Kenya, the Minister may, for the purpose of more effectually…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Master of vessel from proclaimed place to take precautionary measures
(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 sha…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Declaration of infected places, ports of entry, etc.
(1) The Minister may, by order— (a) declare that any place beyond or within Kenya is infected with a formidable epidemic disease o…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Granting of restricted or conditional pratique to and quarantining of vessels
In the case of any vessel having, or suspected on reasonable grounds of having, on board in any person, animal or thing the infect…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Notification to medical officers of health at ports
Upon the occurrence on any vessel of any case of or death from any notifiable infectious disease, or of such other disease as the…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Powers of port health officer
(1) The port health officer may at any time board any vessel and inspect any part thereof or anything therein, and may medically e…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Notification of infectious disease or death on board of vessel
(1) The provisions of this Act in respect of the notification of the occurrence of cases of infectious disease in man, or of sickn…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
No communication between vessels and shore before granting of pratique
(1) Except in case of danger, no master of a vessel arriving at any port or place in Kenya and no person on board thereof shall co…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Application of Act as regards vessels
The provisions of this Act as regards vessels, except where otherwise expressly stated, shall apply to every vessel of whatsoever…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Interpretation of Part
For the purposes of this Part— “master” in relation to any vessel means the person (other than a pilot) having at the time command…
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