Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Penalty for letting infected house
(1) Any person who knowingly lets for hire any dwelling or premises or part thereof in which any person has been suffering from an…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Penalty for failing to provide for disinfection of public conveyance
Every owner or driver of a conveyance shall immediately provide for the disinfection of such conveyance after it has to his knowle…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Penalty for exposure of infected persons and things
Any person who— (a) while suffering from any infectious disease, wilfully exposes himself without proper precautions against sprea…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Isolation of persons who have been exposed to infection
Where, in the opinion of the medical officer of health, any person has recently been exposed to the infection, and may be in the i…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Removal to hospital of infected persons
Where, in the opinion of the medical officer of health, any person certified by a medical practitioner to be suffering from an inf…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Provision of conveyance for infected persons
Any health authority may provide and maintain a carriage or carriages suitable for the conveyance of persons suffering from any in…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Provision of means of disinfection
Any health authority may provide a proper place, with all necessary apparatus and attendance, for the disinfection of bedding, clo…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Destruction of infected bedding, etc.
Any health authority may direct the destruction of any building, bedding, clothing or other articles which have been exposed to in…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Health authority to cause premises to be cleansed and disinfected
(1) Where any medical officer of health is of opinion that the cleansing and disinfecting of any building or part thereof, and of…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Inspection of infected premises and examination of persons suspected to be suffering from infectious disease
A medical officer of health may at any time enter and inspect any premises in which he has reason to believe that any person suffe…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Manner of sending notices and certificates
A notice or certificate to be sent to a medical officer of health in pursuance of this Act may be sent by being delivered to the o…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Fees for certificates
The health authority shall pay to every medical practitioner, other than a Government medical officer, for each certificate duly s…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Notification of infectious diseases
(1) Where an inmate of any building used for human habitation is suffering from any notifiable infectious disease, unless such bui…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Application of Part
(1) The provisions of this Act, unless otherwise expressed, shall, so far as they concern notifiable infectious diseases, apply to…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Provisions of Act in relation to other Acts
(1) Except as is specially provided in this Act, the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in substi…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Minister to be consulted over municipal council by-laws
The Minister for the time being responsible for Local Government shall, before approving any by-law made by a municipal council af…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Proceedings on complaint to board of municipal councils
(1) Whenever complaint is made to the board that the public health in any locality is endangered by the failure or refusal on the…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
General duties of health authorities
It shall be the duty of every health authority to take all lawful, necessary and, under its special circumstances, reasonably prac…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Powers of persons directed to make inquiries
When an inquiry is directed to be made by the Minister, the person directed to make the same shall have free access to all books,…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Power to direct inquiries
The Minister may, on the advice of the board or of the Medical Department, cause to be made such inquiries as he may see fit in re…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Functions of Medical Department
(1) There shall be a department, to be known as the Medical Department, which shall be under the control of the Director of Medica…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Appointment and duties of officers
(1) There shall from time to time be appointed a Director of Medical Services, a Deputy Director of Medical Services, assistant di…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Functions of board
The functions of the board shall be to advise the Minister upon all matters affecting the public health, and particularly upon all…
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Public Health Act CAP 242▤
Establishment of district health management boards
(1) There shall be established a district health management board in each district which shall be charged with responsibility of o…
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