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Browse Acts ↓It shall be the duty of every health authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures for preventing or causing to be prevented or remedied all conditions liable to be injurious or dangerous to health arising from the erection or occupation of unhealthy dwellings or premis…
(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 any railway carriage or other conveyance, in such a state or condition as to be injurious or dangerous to health; (b) any dwelling or premises or part thereof which is o…
The medical officer of health, if satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, shall serve a notice on the author of the nuisance or, if he cannot be found, on the occupier or owner of the dwelling or premises on which the nuisance arises or continues, requiring him to remove it within the time specifi…
(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 thereof within the time specified, the medical officer of health shall cause a complaint relating to such nuisance to be made before a magistrate, and such magistrate sha…
(1) Any person who fails to obey an order to comply with the requirements of the medical officer of health or otherwise to remove the nuisance shall, unless he satisfies the court that he has used all diligence to carry out such order, be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding one t…
Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the person by whose act or default the nuisance arises, or that the owner or occupier of the premises, is not known or cannot be found, the court may at once order the health authority to execute the works thereby directed, and the cost of ex…
The health authority or any of its officers, or the medical officer of health, or any sanitary inspector, or, on the order of a magistrate, any police officer of or above the rank of Inspector, may enter any building or premises for the purpose of examining as to the existence of any nuisance therei…
(1) Where any such nuisance as is mentioned in section 118 is proved to exist with respect to a dwelling, and the court is satisfied that such dwelling is so dilapidated or so defectively constructed or so situated that repairs to or alterations of the same are not likely to remove the nuisance and…
It shall be the duty of the Medical Department— (a) to collect, investigate and consider and publish the facts as to any overcrowding or bad or insufficient housing in the various districts of Kenya; (b) to inquire into the best methods of dealing with any overcrowding or bad housing so ascertained…
The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules and may confer powers and impose duties in connexion with the carrying out and enforcement thereof on local authorities, magistrates, owners and others as to— (a) the inspection of land, dwellings, buildings, factories and trade premises, and…
(1) Every municipal council and every urban and area council may, and shall if so required by the Minister for the time being responsible for local government with the agreement of the Minister, make by-laws for all or any of the following matters— (a) as regards buildings— (i) for controlling the c…
Where a local authority considers that the operation of any building by-law made by it under section 126A would be unreasonable in relation to any particular case, it may, with the consent of the Minister for the time being responsible for local government given with the agreement of the Minister, r…
(1) Where plans of any proposed work are, in accordance with any building by-laws made under section 126A, deposited with a local authority, the local authority shall, subject to any other provisions of this Act, or any rule or By-law made thereunder which expressly requires or authorizes it in cert…
(1) If any work, to which building by-laws made under section 126A are applicable, contravenes any of those by-laws, the local authority which made them, without prejudice to its right to take proceedings in respect of the contravention, may by notice require the owner either to pull down or remove…
(1) All warehouses, godowns or buildings of whatever nature used for the storage of foodstuffs shall be constructed of such materials and in such manner as shall in the opinion of the medical officer of health render such warehouse, godown or building rat-proof. (2) Where any warehouse, godown or bu…
(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 to the medical officer of health that any such kitchen or room is being so used contrary to the provisions of this section, or that any part of the premises adjoining the…
It shall be the duty of every local authority to take all lawful, necessary and reasonably practicable measures— (a) for preventing any pollution dangerous to health of any supply of water which the public within its district has a right to use and does use for drinking or domestic purposes (whether…
(1) The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make, and impose on local authorities and others the duty of enforcing, rules in respect of defined areas— (a) prohibiting bathing in, and prohibiting or regulating the washing of clothes or other articles or of animals in, or in any place draining i…
(1) No person shall sell or expose for sale or import or bring into any market or have in his possession without reasonable excuse any food for man in a tainted, adulterated, diseased or unwholesome state, or which is unfit for use, or any food for any animal which is in an unwholesome state or unfi…
Any medical officer of health, or other person duly authorized by the health authority in writing, may, at any time between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., enter any shop or premises used for the sale or preparation for sale or storage of food to inspect and examine any food found therein which he h…
Any person in whose possession there is found any food liable to seizure under section 131 or section 132 shall further be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.
The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules regarding all or any of the following matters— (a) the inspection of dairy stock and of animals intended for human consumption, and of dairies, stock-sheds or yards, milk-shops, milk- vessels and slaughterhouses, and of factories, stores, shop…
The Minister, on the advice of the Board, may make orders— (a) requiring the medical examination of any person in any premises in which any milk or dairy produce or other article of food intended for sale is collected, kept, sold or exposed for sale, or of any person who has been engaged in the coll…
(1) Every municipal council may with the approval of the Minister make bylaws applicable to its area for all or any of the following purposes— (a) for regulating, supervising and licensing purveyors of milk and ice cream makers and vendors; (b) for regulating, inspecting, supervising and licensing d…
For the purposes of this Act— (a) all collections of water, sewage, rubbish, refuse, ordure or other fluid or solid substances which permit or facilitate the breeding or multiplication of animal or vegetable parasites of men or domestic animals, or of insects or of other agents, which are known to c…
(1) The occupier or owner of any premises shall keep such premises free from all bottles, whole or broken, whether fixed on walls or not, tins, boxes, calabashes, earthenware vessels, shells or any other articles which are kept so that they are likely to retain water. (2) Any occupier or owner of an…
No person shall within a township permit any premises or lands owned or occupied by him or over which he has control to become overgrown with bush or long grass of such a nature as, in the opinion of the medical officer of health, to be likely to harbour mosquitoes.
(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 collection of water in any well, barrel, tub, bucket, tank or other vessel intended for the storage of water, unless such well, barrel, tub, bucket, tank or other vessel i…
The occupier or owner of any premises upon or attached to which is any cesspit shall cause such cesspit to be properly protected or screened to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health so as to prevent the ingress of mosquitoes into the same, and in default he shall be guilty of an offence…
It shall be lawful for the medical officer of health by written notice to require the occupier or owner of any premises upon or attached to which is any gutter, pipe, groove or waterway used or intended for carrying off water from any roof or other place to cause the same to be perforated by holes a…