{UAH} The Public Health Act & SocioEconomic Transformation

CHAPTER 281
THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.
Arrangement of Sections.
Section
PART I—INTERPRETATION.
1. Interpretation.
PART II—ADMINISTRATION.
2. Power to direct inquiries.
3. Power of persons directed to make inquiries.
4. Appointment of sanitary boards.
5. General duties of local authorities.
6. Proceedings on complaint to Minister of local authority in
municipality or town.
7. Powers of person appointed under section 6.
8. Establishment of Advisory Board of Health.
9. Provisions of this Act in relation to other Acts.
PART III—NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
10. Minister's power to declare notifiable diseases.
11. Power to make rules.
PART IV—PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
12. Powers of medical officer of health to inspect premises and
persons.
13. Powers of medical officer of health to cause premises to be
disinfected.
14. Destruction of infected building, bedding, etc.
15. Damage to articles during disinfection.
16. No compensation for deprivation during disinfection.
17. Provision of means of disinfection.
18. Provision of conveyance for infected persons and things.
19. Removal to hospital of infected persons.
20. Penalty on exposure of infected persons and things.
21. Penalty on failing to provide for disinfection of public vehicle.
22. Penalty for letting infected house.
23. Duty of person letting house lately infected to give true
information.
24. Notification of death and removal of body of person dying of
infectious disease.
25. Removal and burial of body of person who has died of an
infectious disease.
26. Local authority to remove and bury unclaimed bodies.
27. Rules.
PART V—SPECIAL PROVISIONS REGARDING CERTAIN EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
28. Epidemic or endemic diseases.
29. Power of Minister to make rules for prevention of disease.
30. Local authorities to see to the execution of rules.
31. Power of local authority or medical officer of health to enforce
rules.
32. Notification of sickness or mortality in animals suspected of
plague.
33. Local authorities to report notification of formidable epidemic
disease by expeditious means.
34. Chief medical officer may requisition buildings, equipment, etc.
35. Penalties for offences against Part V.
PART VI—PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
36. Powers to enforce precautions at borders.
PART VII—SMALLPOX.
37. Definition of "public vaccinator" and "unprotected person".
38. Vaccination of children.
39. Vaccination of persons in or entering Uganda.
40. If adult or child unfit for vaccination, certificate to be given.
41. Certificate of insusceptibility to be given.
42. Certificate to be given for successful vaccination.
43. No fee to be charged for a certificate or for vaccination by public
vaccinator.
44. Vaccination of inmates of institutions.
45. School attendance.
46. Supply of vaccine lymph and inoculation from arm to arm, etc.
forbidden.
47. Emergency vaccination of population in areas threatened with
smallpox.
48. Power to make rules.
PART VIII—VENEREAL DISEASES.
49. Venereal diseases.
50. Employment of infected persons.
51. Publication of advertisements of cures.
52. Prevention of the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by
medical practitioner.
53. Offences and penalties.
PART IX—SANITATION AND HOUSING.
54. Nuisances prohibited.
55. Duties of local authorities to maintain cleanliness and prevent
nuisances.
56. Duty of local authorities to prevent or remedy danger to health
arising from unsuitable dwellings.
57. What constitutes a nuisance.
58. Author of nuisance.
59. Notice to remove nuisance.
60. Procedure in case owner fails to comply with notice.
61. Penalties in relation to nuisances.
62. Court may order local authority to execute works in certain cases.
63. Provision in case of two orders for overcrowding relating to the
same house.
64. Power of sale.
65. Persons jointly responsible for nuisances may be proceeded
against.
66. Notice to remove nuisance.
67. Prohibition in respect of back-to-back dwellings and rooms
without through ventilation.
68. Cost of execution of provisions relating to nuisances.
69. Examination of premises.
70. Power of Minister to make rules.
71. Rules as to buildings.
72. Power to require removal or alteration of work not in conformity
with rules.
73. Limitation of powers granted under this Part.
PART X—SPECIAL PROVISIONS AS TO SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
74. Application.
75. Interpretation.
Public sewers.
76. Provision of public sewers and sewage disposal works.
77. Duty of local authority to keep map showing public sewers.
78. Power of local authority to alter or close public sewers.
79. Certain matters not to be passed into sewers or drains.
Right to connect with public sewers.
80. Right of owners and occupiers within district of local authority
to drain into public sewers.
81. Use of public sewers by owners and occupiers without the district
of a local authority.
82. Sewer connections in streets and through private land.
83. Procedure in regard to making communication with public
sewers.
Drainage and latrines of new buildings.
84. New buildings to be provided with any necessary drains, etc.
85. Latrine accommodation to be provided for new buildings.
Drainage and latrines of existing buildings.
86. Provisions as to drainage, etc. of existing buildings.
87. Replacement of earth closets, etc. by water closets.
88. Buildings having insufficient or defective latrines.
89. Buildings having defective latrines capable of repair.
Drainage of buildings in combination.
90. Drainage of buildings in combination.
91. Payment of advances for defraying drainage expenses.
92. Rules.
PART XI—PREVENTION AND DESTRUCTION OF MOSQUITOES.
93. Breeding places of mosquitoes to be nuisances.
94. Yards to be kept free from bottles, whole or broken, etc.
95. Clearance of bush or long grass.
96. Wells, etc. to be covered.
97. Cesspits to be screened or protected.
98. Larvae, etc. may be destroyed.
99. Mere presence of mosquito larvae an offence.
100. Limitation of powers granted under this Part.
PART XII—PROTECTION OF FOODSTUFFS.
101. Construction and regulation of buildings used for the storage of
foodstuffs.
102. No person shall reside or sleep in any room in which foodstuffs
are stored, etc.
PART XIII—WATER AND FOOD SUPPLIES.
103. Duty of local authorities as to polluted water supplies.
104. Minister may make rules.
105. Medical officer of health's powers to make orders for protection
of public health.
106. Minister may make orders.
PART XIV—CEMETERIES.
107. Cemeteries to be appointed.
108. Authorised cemeteries.
109. Permit to exhume.
110. Exhumation needed for execution of public works may be
ordered.
111. Record of permit for exhumation.
112. Closing of cemeteries by Minister.
113. Cremations in places where no crematorium provided.
PART XV—GENERAL.
114. Basements not to be occupied without permission.
115. Lodging houses.
116. Nursing homes.
117. Maternity and child welfare.
118. Provision of medical attention, etc. by employers for their staff.
119. Regulation of public washermen.
120. Control of irrigated land.
121. Supervision of importation or manufacture of vaccines, etc.
PART XVI—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
122. Authentication of notices, etc.
123. Service of notices, etc.
124. Powers and duties of the officers of the Ministry of Health.
125. Defect in form not to invalidate notices, etc.
126. Powers of entry and inspection of premises and penalties for
obstruction.
127. Appeals against, and the enforcement of, notices requiring
execution of works.
128. Execution of works.
129. Certain expenses recoverable from owners to be a charge on the
premises; power to accept payment by installments.
130. Power to make a charge in respect of establishment expenses.
131. Recovery of expenses, etc.
132. Protection of local authorities and their officers from personal
liability.
133. Penalties where not expressly provided.
134. Liability of secretary or manager of company.
135. Proceedings against several persons.
136. Prosecutions.
137. Power of local authority outside its district.
138. General power of Minister to make rules.
Schedules
First Schedule Certificate of unfitness for vaccination.
Second Schedule Certificate of insusceptibility to
vaccinate.
Third Schedule Certificate of vaccination.
CHAPTER 281
THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.
Commencement: 15 October, 1935.
An Act to consolidate the law regarding the preservation of public
health.
PART I—INTERPRETATION.
1. Interpretation.
In this Act, and in any rules made under this Act, unless the context
otherwise requires—
(a) "adult" means a person who is over or appears to be over
eighteen years of age;
(b) "approved" and "prescribed" mean respectively approved or
prescribed by the Minister or by the appointed officers or by rules
under this Act, as the case may be;
(c) "basement" means any room which is more than one-third of its
height measured from the level of the floor below the surface of
any ground within ten feet of the wall of that room, but which, as
regards ventilation and light, conforms with all rules made under
this Act;
(d) "board" means the Advisory Board of Health constituted under
this Act;
(e) "building" includes any structure whatsoever whether permanent
or temporary for whatsoever purpose used;
(f) "burial" means burial in the earth, interment or any other form of
sepulture, or the cremation or any other mode of disposal of a
dead body, and "buried" has a corresponding meaning;
(g) "cellar" means any room the floor of which is lower than any
ground within ten feet of that room and which as regards
ventilation and light does not conform with all rules made under
this Act, and includes any vault or underground room;
(h) "child" means a person who is under or appears to be under
eighteen years of age;
(i) "court" or "court of competent jurisdiction", except in section 66,
means a magistrate's court over which presides a chief magistrate
or a magistrate grade I or grade II, and every offence created
under this Act shall be tried and punished in such court or in the
High Court;
(j) "dairy" includes any farmhouse, cowshed, milkstall, milkshop or
other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept
or used for purposes of sale or manufactured into butter, ghee,
cheese, dried milk or condensed milk for sale;
(k) "dairyperson" includes any cowkeeper, purveyor of milk or
occupier of a dairy, and in cases where a dairy is owned by a
corporation or company, the secretary or other person actually
managing the dairy;
(l) "district" means in relation to a local authority, the area which is
under the jurisdiction of that local authority;
(m) "drain" means any drain, together with its appurtenances, used
for the drainage of one building only, or of premises within the
same curtilage and made merely for the purpose of
communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle
for drainage, or with a sewer into which drainage of two or more
buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed
and includes any pipe or channel whether opened or closed, used
or intended to be used for drainage of land;
(n) "dwelling" means any house, room, shed, hut, cave, tent, vehicle,
vessel or boat or any other structure or place, any portion of
which is used by any human being for sleeping or in which any
human being dwells;
(o) "erect" in reference to a dwelling or room includes "alter", "add
to" or "convert into", and "erected" has a corresponding
meaning;
(p) "factory" means any premises in which, or within the close or
curtilage or precincts of which, steam, water, electricity or other
mechanical power is used for the purposes of trade or
manufacture;
(q) "food" means any article used for food or drink other than drugs
or water, but includes ice, and any article which ordinarily enters
into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food,
and includes flavouring matters and condiments; "foodstuffs" has
a similar meaning;
(r) "guardian" means any person having by reason of the death,
illness, absence or inability of the parent or any other cause, the
custody of a child;
(s) "health inspector" means a health or sanitary inspector of the
Ministry of Health and includes any member of the subordinate
medical staff or other person appointed by the chief medical
officer to act as such within the district of one or more local
authorities;
(t) "infected" means suffering from, or in the incubation stage of, or
contaminated with the infection of, any infectious disease;
(u) "infectious disease" means any disease which can be
communicated directly or indirectly by any person suffering from
it to any other person;
(v) "isolation" means the segregation and the separation from and
interdiction of communication with others of persons who are or
are suspected of being infected;
(w) "isolated" has a corresponding meaning;
(x) "keeper of a lodging house" means any person keeping a hotel or
lodging house;
(y) "land" includes any right over or in respect of land or any interest
in land;
(z) "latrine" includes privy, urinal, earth closet and water closet;
(aa) "local authority" means—
(i) a local council as defined in the Local Governments Act;
(ii) in any area for which a sanitary board is appointed under
section 4, the sanitary board;
(bb) "lodging house" means a building or part of a house, including its
verandah, if any, which is let or sublet in lodgings or otherwise,
either by storeys, by flats, by rooms or by portions of rooms;
(cc) "meat inspector" means any person appointed by the
commissioner of veterinary services and animal industry for the
purposes of meat inspection;
(dd) "medical observation" means the isolation or detention of persons
for the purpose of medical examination;
(ee) "medical officer" means any registered medical practitioner in
the employment of the Government but does not include a
licensed medical practitioner;
(ff) "medical officer of health" means the chief medical officer or any
medical officer in the employment of the Government and
includes any member of the Government medical subordinate
staff being a registered or licensed medical practitioner or other
medical practitioner appointed by the chief medical officer to act
as such in any district;
(gg) "medical practitioner" means a person who is registered or
licensed as such under any law in force in Uganda governing the
registration of medical practitioners;
(hh) "medical surveillance" means the keeping of a person under
medical supervision. Persons under the surveillance may be
required by the medical officer of health or any duly authorised
officer to remain within a specified area or to attend for medical
examination at specified places and times;
(ii) "municipality" means the district under the control of any city or
municipality constituted under any empowering Act;
(jj) "occupier" includes any person in actual occupation of land or
premises without regard to the title under which he or she
occupies, and, in case of premises subdivided and let to lodgers
or various tenants, the person receiving rent payable by the
lodgers or tenants whether on his or her own account or as an
agent for any person entitled to the rent or interested in it;
(kk) "offensive trade" includes the trade of blood boiler, bone boiler,
fellmonger, soap boiler, tallow melter, tripe boiler, tanner,
preparer or storer of hides, manure manufacturer and any other
noxious or offensive trade, business or manufacture declared by
the Minister by statutory instrument to be a noxious or offensive
trade;
(ll) "owner" as regards immovable property, includes any person,
other than the Government, receiving the rent or profits of any
lands or premises from any tenant or occupier of the land or
premises or who would receive the rent or profits if the land or
premises were let whether on his or her own account or as agent
for any person other than the Government, entitled to the rent or
profits or interested in the rent or profits; the term includes any
lessee or licensee of public land and any superintendent, overseer
or manager of that lessee or licensee residing on the holding;
(mm)"parent" means and includes the father and mother of a child,
whether legitimate or not;
(nn) "premises" includes any building or tent together with the land on
which it is situated and the adjoining land used in connection
with it, and includes any vehicle, conveyance or vessel;
(oo) "public building" means a building used or constructed or
adapted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally as a place of
public worship or as a theatre, public hall, or as a public place of
assembly for persons admitted by ticket or otherwise, or used or
adapted to be used for any other public purpose;
(pp) "public latrine" means any latrine to which the public are
admitted on payment or otherwise;
(qq) "public vehicle" means every vehicle which plies or stands for
hire, or is from time to time let out for hire or is intended to be let
out for hire and includes any railway coach or aircraft;
(rr) "slaughterhouse" means any premises set apart for the purpose of
a slaughterhouse by a local authority;
(ss) "stock" means and includes all domesticated animals of which
the flesh or milk is used for human consumption;
(tt) "street" means any highway, road or sanitary lane, and includes
any bridge, footway, square, court, alley or passage whether a
thoroughfare or a part of one or not;
(uu) "town" means a town within the meaning of the Local
Governments Act and includes any municipality created
hereafter;
(vv) "trade premises" means any premises, other than a factory, used
or intended to be used for carrying on any trade or business;
(ww) "vehicle" means every means of conveyance or of transit or parts
thereof manufactured for use or capable of being used on land,
water or in the air and in whatever way driven or propelled or
carried;
(xx) "verandah" includes any stage, platform or portico projecting
from the main wall of any building;
(yy) "veterinary officer" means the commissioner of veterinary
services and animal industry or any veterinary officer in the
employment of the Government or any member of the
Government veterinary staff, appointed by the commissioner to
act as such in any district;
(zz) "workshop" means any building or part of a building in which
manual labour is exercised for purposes of trade.
PART II—ADMINISTRATION.
2. Power to direct inquiries.
The Minister may cause to be made such inquiries as he or she may see fit in
relation to any matters concerning the public health in any place.
3. Power of persons directed to make inquiries.
When the Minister directs an inquiry to be made, the person directed to make
the inquiry shall have free access to all books, plans, maps, documents and
other things relevant to the inquiry and shall have in relation to witnesses and
their examination and the production of documents similar powers to those
conferred upon commissioners by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, and may
enter and inspect any building, premises or place, the entry or inspection of
which appears to him or her requisite for the purpose of the inquiry.
4. Appointment of sanitary boards.
The Minister may by statutory instrument establish any number of boards to
be known as sanitary boards comprising such number of persons as the
Minister may from time to time decide to exercise the powers conferred on
local authorities by this Act in respect of any specified area and by such
instrument the Minister may make provision, not inconsistent with this Act,
for the conduct of the business of any board, the extent of its jurisdiction and
generally for enabling it satisfactorily to exercise its powers.
5. General duties of local authorities.
Every local authority shall take all lawful, necessary and reasonably
practicable measures for preventing the occurrence of, or for dealing with
any outbreak or prevalence of, any infectious, communicable or preventable
disease; to safeguard and promote the public health; and to exercise the
powers and perform the duties in respect of the public health conferred or
imposed by this Act or by any other law.
6. Proceedings on complaint to Minister of local authority in
municipality or town.
(1) Whenever complaint is made to the Minister that the public health
in any municipality or town is endangered by the failure or refusal on the part
of the local authority to exercise the powers or perform the duties devolving
upon it under this Act, the Minister, if satisfied after due inquiry that the local
authority is guilty of default, may make an order directing the local authority
to perform its duty in the matter of the complaint and prescribing a time for
that performance.
(2) If the order given under subsection (1) is not obeyed within the
time prescribed, the Minister may appoint some person to carry out the order.
7. Powers of person appointed under section 6.
Any person appointed under section 6 to perform the duty of a defaulting
local authority shall, in the performance and for the purpose of that duty,
have all the powers of the local authority other than the powers of levying
rates vested in any local authority pursuant to the provision of any Act in that
behalf; and the Minister may from time to time by order change any person
so appointed.
8. Establishment of Advisory Board of Health.
(1) For the purpose of this Act, the Minister shall establish a body
to be known as the Advisory Board of Health comprising the chief medical
officer, or his or her authorised representative, as chairperson and such other
members as the Minister may see fit to appoint, including at least three
nonofficials resident in Uganda who shall be appointed for such period as the
Minister may determine.
(2) The chairperson shall appoint such person as he or she may think
fit to be secretary of the board.
(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), the Minister may by
order vary or cancel the membership of the board.
(4) The Minister shall make rules defining the functions of the board,
the convening of its meetings, the quorum of the board, the allowances
payable to members of the board and the circumstances in which any member
shall vacate his or her membership.
(5) The names of all members appointed to the board shall be
immediately notified in the Gazette, and any number of the Gazette
containing a notice of any appointment shall be deemed sufficient evidence
of that appointment for all purposes.
(6) If any member of the board is at any time prevented by absence
or other cause from acting, the Minister may appoint some other person to
replace that member until he or she shall return or be able to resume his or
her functions.
9. Provisions of this 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 substitution for any
provisions of any other Act which are not in conflict or inconsistent with this
Act.
(2) If the provisions of any earlier Act are in conflict or inconsistent
with this Act, the provisions of this Act shall prevail.
PART III—NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
10. Minister's power to declare notifiable diseases.
The Minister may by statutory order—
(a) declare that any disease shall be a notifiable disease for the
purpose of this Act;
(b) declare that only such provisions of this Act as are mentioned in
the order shall apply to any notifiable disease;
(c) restrict the provisions of this Act, as regards the notification of
any disease, to the district of any local authority or to any area
defined.
11. Power to make rules.
(1) The Minister may in respect of the notification of disease make
rules as to—
(a) the duties of medical practitioners called in to visit or in any
manner becoming aware of any notifiable disease;
(b) the duties of heads of families, parents or other persons having
the care of or in attendance on any sick person;
(c) the duties of owners or occupiers of land, the owners or managers
of mines, employers of labour, and all chiefs or headmen or
others;
(d) the duties of the person in charge of any school, mission or
missionary institution, orphanage or similar institution in regard
to the reporting of such diseases or any other disease specified in
the rules;
(e) the circumstances in which notification of particular diseases
shall not be required;
(f) the duties of the local authorities in respect of keeping registers
of records of notifications of disease;
(g) the duties of registrars of births and deaths in respect of
furnishing a local authority or medical officer of health with
notification of returns of births and deaths notified with the
registrars;
(h) the forms to be used and the particulars to be furnished by
medical practitioners and others when making the notifications
to a local authority or medical officer of health;
(i) the forms to be used and the particulars to be furnished by a local
authority and a medical officer of health when transmitting
returns and reports to the chief medical officer;
(j) the fees to be paid by a local authority or the Government to
medical practitioners for certificates provided in accordance with
the rules,
and generally for better carrying out the provisions and attaining the objects
of this Part of this Act.
(2) Any person who contravenes any such rule commits an offence.
PART IV—PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
12. Powers of medical officer of health to inspect premises and
persons.
A medical officer of health may at any time enter and inspect any premises
in which he or she has reason to believe that any person suffering or who has
recently suffered from any infectious disease is or has recently been present,
or any inmate of which has recently been exposed to the infection of any
infectious disease, and may medically examine any person in the premises
for the purpose of ascertaining whether the person is suffering or has recently
suffered from or is a carrier of any such disease and may cause a postmortem
examination to be made on any corpse for the purpose of
ascertaining if the cause of death has been any infectious disease.
13. Powers of medical officer of health to cause premises to be
disinfected.
(1) Where any medical officer of health is of opinion that the
cleansing and disinfecting of any building or part of the building, and of any
articles in the building likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or
check infectious disease, he or she shall give notice in writing to the owner
or occupier of the building or part of the building specifying the steps to be
taken to cleanse and disinfect the building or part of the building and the
articles, within a time specified in the notice.
(2) If the person to whom notice is so given fails to comply with the
notice, that person commits an offence and is liable on conviction before a
court of competent jurisdiction to a fine not exceeding two hundred shillings
for every day during which he or she continues to make default; and a local
authority may cause the building or part of the building and the articles to be
cleansed and disinfected, and may recover the expenses incurred from the
owner or occupier in default as a civil debt.
(3) Where the owner or occupier of any such building or part of the
building is from poverty or otherwise unable, in the opinion of a local
authority, effectually to carry out the requirements of this section, the
authority may, without enforcing the requirements on that owner or occupier,
with or without his or her consent enter, cleanse and disinfect the building or
part of the building and the articles, and defray the expenses of the cleansing
and disinfecting.
14. Destruction of infected building, bedding, etc.
(1) Any local authority may direct the destruction of any building,
bedding, clothing or other articles which have been exposed to infection from
any infectious disease, or in the opinion of the medical officer of health are
infected, and that direction shall be sufficient authority for a person
authorised to do so to destroy the same.
(2) A local authority shall give reasonable compensation for
buildings and articles so destroyed.
(3) If any person is aggrieved by the amount of compensation
awarded him or her by a local authority, that person shall have the right, and
the local authority, shall agree, to a submission of the matter to arbitration in
accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act.
15. Damage to articles during disinfection.
When any article is damaged during disinfection no compensation shall be
payable if suitable methods of disinfection have been employed and due care
and all reasonable precautions have been taken to prevent unnecessary or
avoidable damage.
16. No compensation for deprivation during disinfection.
Compensation shall not be payable in respect of the deprivation of the
occupation or use of any building or part of a building or of the use of any
article occasioned by disinfection, if no undue delay has occurred.
17. Provision of means of disinfection.
Any local authority may provide a proper place, with all necessary apparatus
and attendance, for the disinfection of bedding, clothing or other articles
which have become infected, and may cause any articles brought for
disinfection to be dealt with free of charge.
18. Provision of conveyance for infected persons and things.
Any local authority may provide and maintain conveyances for the carriage
of persons suffering from any infectious disease or for the removal of any
infected bedding, clothing or other articles and may pay the expenses of
carriage in such conveyance of any person so suffering to a hospital or other
place of detention.
19. Removal to hospital of infected persons.
Where in the opinion of a medical officer of health any person certified by
a medical practitioner to be suffering from an infectious disease is not
accommodated or is not being treated or nursed in such manner as adequately
to guard against the spread of the disease, the local authority may cause the
person to be moved to the hospital or any temporary place which in the
opinion of a medical officer of health is suitable for the reception of the
infectious sick and to be detained there until the medical officer of health or
any medical practitioner, duly authorised thereto by the chief medical officer,
is satisfied that he or she is free from infection or can be discharged without
danger to the public health.
20. Penalty on exposure of infected persons and things.
Any person who—
(a) while suffering from any infectious disease, wilfully exposes
himself or herself without proper precautions against spreading
the disease in any street, public building or place, shop, inn, hotel
or public vehicle without previously notifying its owner,
conductor or driver that he or she is so suffering;
(b) being in charge of any person so suffering, so exposes the
sufferer; or
(c) gives, lends, sells, transmits or exposes, without previous
disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags or other things which
have to his or her knowledge been exposed to infection from any
such disease,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding three
hundred shillings or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months
or to both such fine and imprisonment; and a person who, while knowingly
suffering from any such disease, enters any public vehicle without previously
notifying the owner, conductor or driver that he or she is so suffering, shall,
in addition, be ordered by the court to pay that owner, conductor or driver the
amount of any loss and expenses he or she may incur in carrying into effect
the provisions of this Act with respect to disinfection of the conveyance;
except that no proceedings under this section shall be taken against persons
transmitting with proper precautions any bedding, clothing, rags or other
things for the purposes of having them disinfected.
21. Penalty on failing to provide for disinfection of public vehicle.
Every owner or driver of a public vehicle shall immediately provide for the
disinfection of the public vehicle to the satisfaction of the medical officer of
health, after it has to his or her knowledge conveyed any person suffering
from an infectious disease, and if he or she fails to do so he or she commits
an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding four hundred
shillings, but no such owner or driver shall be required to convey any person
so suffering until he or she has been paid a sum sufficient to cover any loss
or expenses incurred by him or her in carrying into effect the provisions of
this section.
22. Penalty for letting infected house.
(1) Any person who knowingly lets for hire any dwelling or premises
or part of a dwelling or premises in which any person has been suffering
from an infectious disease without having it, and all articles in it liable to
retain infection, efficiently disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical
officer of health as testified by a certificate signed by him or her commits an
offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand
shillings.
(2) This section shall apply to any owner or keeper of a hotel or
boarding house who lets any room or part of a room to any person.
23. Duty of person letting house lately infected to give true
information.
Any person letting for hire or showing for the purpose of letting for hire any
building or part of a building who on being questioned by any person
negotiating for the hire of the house as to the fact of there being or within six
weeks previously having been in it any person suffering from any infectious
disease knowingly makes a false answer to the question commits an offence
and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand shillings.
24. Notification of death and removal of body of person dying of
infectious disease.
(1) In every case of death from an infectious disease, it shall be the
duty of the occupier of the building in which the death has occurred
immediately to notify the local authority of the death; and on receipt of the
notification the local authority shall at once transmit the information received
to the nearest medical officer of health and make the best arrangements
practicable, pending the removal of the body and the carrying out of thorough
disinfection, for preventing the spread of the disease.
(2) It shall be an offence against this Act for the occupier of any
premises to keep any dead body in any room in which food is kept or
prepared or eaten or to keep any dead body for more than twenty-four hours
in any room in which any person lives, sleeps or works, or to keep the body
of any person who is known to have died of infectious disease in any place
other than a mortuary or other place set apart for the keeping of dead bodies,
without first obtaining the sanction of the local authority or a medical officer
of health.
(3) Where any person dies of an infectious disease, it shall be an
offence against this Act to remove the body except to a mortuary or for the
purpose of immediate burial; and it shall be the duty of any person who
removes the body to take it directly to the mortuary or to the place of
interment for burial.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the removal by
due authority of any dead body from a hospital to a mortuary.
25. Removal and burial of body of person who has died of an infectious
disease.
(1) A medical officer of health, a local authority or any administrative
or police officer may direct that a dead body of a person who has died from
an infectious disease be removed to a mortuary or other suitable place
whenever the body—
(a) is retained in contravention of section 24 in a room in which any
person lives, sleeps or works, or in which food is kept or prepared
or eaten; or
(b) is retained in any premises in circumstances which, in the opinion
of a medical officer of health, are likely to cause nuisance or
endanger health.
(2) Any person who obstructs the execution of any order or direction
given under this section commits an offence.
26. Local authority to remove and bury unclaimed bodies.
A local authority shall be responsible for the removal and burial of bodies of
destitute persons and of unclaimed bodies.
27. Rules.
The Minister may make rules applicable to all infectious diseases or only to
such infectious diseases as may be specified in the rules, regarding the
following matters—
(a) the closing of any school or any place of public entertainment,
where deemed necessary for the purpose of preventing the spread
of any infectious disease, and the regulation and restriction of
school attendance;
(b) the duties of parents or guardians of school children who are
suffering or have recently suffered from or been exposed to the
infection of any infectious disease, and the duties of persons in
charge of schools in respect of those children;
(c) the establishment, maintenance, management and inspection of
isolation hospitals, convalescent homes or other institutions for
the accommodation or treatment of persons suffering from or
who have recently suffered from any infectious disease, the
removal of persons to those institutions and their discharge from
them, and the classification and control of the patients and staff
of those institutions;
(d) the imposition and enforcement of quarantine or of medical
observation and surveillance in respect of persons suffering or
suspected to be suffering from infectious disease who are not
removed to a hospital or place of isolation, the premises in which
those persons are accommodated, those in charge of or in
attendance on those persons, and other persons living in or
visiting the premises or who may otherwise have been exposed
to the infection of any such disease;
(e) the duties in respect of the prevention of infectious disease and
in respect of persons suffering or suspected to be suffering from
infectious disease, of owners of land on which persons reside and
of employers of labour, and of chiefs or headmen and others;
(f) the measures to be taken for the prevention of the spread or
eradication of cholera, human trypanosomiasis, typhoid fever,
typhus, plague, acute poliomyelitis, tuberculosis or any other
infectious disease requiring to be dealt with in a special manner;
(g) the conveyance by rail or otherwise of persons suffering from, or
bodies of persons who have died of, an infectious disease;
(h) the prevention of the spread from any animal or the carcass or
product of any animal to man, of rabies, glanders, anthrax,
plague, tuberculosis, trichinosis or any other disease
communicable by any animal, or the carcass or product of any
animal, to man;
(i) the prevention of the spread of disease by flies or other insects
and the destruction and the removal of or the abatement of
conditions permitting or favouring the prevalence or
multiplication of insects;
(j) the destruction of rodents and other vermin and the removal or
abatement of conditions permitting or favouring the harbourage
or multiplication of rodents and other vermin;
(k) the prevention of the spread of ankylostomiasis, schistosomiasis
or other disease in man caused by an animal or vegetable
parasite;
(l) the prevention of the spread of any infectious disease by the
carrying on of any business, trade or occupation;
(m) the prevention of the spread of any infectious disease by persons
who, though not at the time suffering from the disease, are
"carriers" of and liable to disseminate the infection of the disease,
and the keeping under medical surveillance and the restriction of
the movements of those persons;
(n) the prohibition of spitting in public places or in public vehicles,
except into receptacles provided for the purpose;
(o) the regulation and restriction of any trade or occupation entailing
special danger to the health of those engaged in it, whether from
infectious disease or otherwise, and the institution of measures
for preventing or limiting those dangers;
(p) the establishment, maintenance and management of cleansing
stations and the cleansing of dirty or verminous persons, the
disinfection or fumigation of buildings, clothing or other articles
which have been exposed to or are believed to be contaminated
with the infection of any infectious disease, or which are dirty or
verminous, and the prohibition of the carrying out of any
fumigation which involves the use of poisonous gas except under
licence;
(q) the disposal of any refuse, waste matter or other matter or thing
which has been contaminated with or exposed to the infection of
any infectious disease;
(r) the giving compulsorily of any information or the production
compulsorily of any documentary or other evidence required for
the purpose of tracing the source or preventing the spread of any
infectious disease, and generally for better carrying out the
provisions and attaining the objects and purposes of this Part of
this Act.
PART V—SPECIAL PROVISIONS REGARDING CERTAIN EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
28. Epidemic or endemic diseases.
The provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply to smallpox, plague,
Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, typhus, sleeping
sickness or human trypanosomiasis and any other disease which the Minister
may by statutory order declare to be a formidable epidemic disease for the
purpose of this Part of this Act.
29. Power of Minister to make rules for prevention of disease.
Whenever any part of Uganda appears to be threatened by any disease
described in section 28, the Minister may by statutory order declare the part
an infected area and may make rules for all or any of the following
purposes—
(a) for the speedy interment of the dead;
(b) for house to house visitation;
(c) for the provision of medical aid and accommodation, for the
promotion of cleansing, ventilation and disinfection and for
guarding against the spread of disease;
(d) for preventing any person from leaving any infected area without
undergoing all or any of the following: medical examination,
disinfection, inoculation, vaccination or revaccination or passing
a specified period in an observation camp or station;
(e) for the formation of hospitals and observation camps or stations,
and for placing in them persons who are suffering from or have
been in contact with persons suffering from infectious disease;
(f) for the destruction or disinfection of buildings, furniture, goods
or other articles, which have been used by persons suffering from
infectious disease, or which are likely to spread the infection;
(g) for the removal of persons who are suffering from an infectious
disease and persons who have been in contact with such persons;
(h) for the removal of corpses;
(i) for the destruction of rats, the means and precautions to be taken
on shore or on board vessels for preventing them passing between
vessels and from vessels to the shore or from the shore to vessels
and the better prevention of the danger of spreading infection by
rats;
(j) for destruction of mosquitoes, the means and precautions to be
taken in respect of aircraft arriving at or departing from Uganda
and for preventing mosquitoes from passing from aircraft to land
or from land to aircraft, and the better prevention of the danger of
spreading infection by mosquitoes;
(k) for the regulation of hospitals used for the reception of persons
suffering from an infectious disease and of observation camps
and stations;
(l) for the removal and disinfection of articles which have been
exposed to infection;
(m) for prohibiting any person from living in any building or using
any building for any purpose if in the opinion of the medical
officer of health that use is liable to cause the spread of any
infectious disease; any rules made under this section may give a
medical officer of health power to prescribe the conditions on
which that building may be used;
(n) for any other purpose whether of the same kind or nature as the
foregoing or not, having for its object the prevention, control or
suppression of infectious diseases;
(o) for the compulsory medical examination of persons suffering or
suspected to be suffering from infectious disease;
(p) for the registration of residents in an infected area;
(q) for the registration of vehicles in an infected area;
(r) for the compulsory confiscation and disposal of canoes and
fishing gear used by any person in breach of any rule relating to
the disease known as sleeping sickness;
(s) for the control of woodcutting in an infected area;
(t) for the restriction of residence in, immigration to or emigration
from, an infected area;
(u) for the control of fishing and hunting in an infected area,
and may by statutory order declare all or any of the rules so made to be in
force within the whole or any part of the infected area.
30. Local authorities to see to the execution of rules.
(1) The local authority of any area within which or part of which
rules made under this Part of this Act are declared to be in force shall do and
provide all such acts, matters and things as may be necessary for mitigating
any such disease, or aiding in the execution of the rules, or for executing the
rules, as the case may require.
(2) Moreover, a local authority may from time to time direct any
prosecution or legal proceedings for or in respect of the wilful violation or
neglect of any rules made under this Part of this Act.
31. Power of local authority or medical officer of health to enforce
rules.
Any local authority or medical officer of health or any person duly authorised
by any local authority or medical officer of health shall have power of entry
on any premises, vehicle or vessel, for the purpose of executing or
superintending the execution of any rules so made by the Minister under
section 29.
32. Notification of sickness or mortality in animals suspected of plague.
(1) Any person who becomes aware of any unusual sickness or
mortality among rats, mice, cats, dogs or other animals susceptible to plague
or other formidable epidemic diseases not due to poison or other obvious
cause shall immediately report the fact to a local authority or to a medical
officer of health.
(2) Any such person who fails so to report commits an offence.
33. Local authorities to report notification of formidable epidemic
disease by expeditious means.
Every local authority shall immediately report to the chief medical officer or
the nearest medical officer of health, by telegraph or other expeditious
means, particulars of every notification received by the authority of a case or
suspected case of any formidable epidemic disease, or of any unusual
sickness or mortality in animals made under section 32.
34. Chief medical officer may requisition buildings, equipment, etc.
(1) Where there exists or is threatened an outbreak of any disease to
which this Part of this Act applies, the chief medical officer may require any
person owning or having charge of any land or premises, or any person
owning or having charge of tents, transport, bedding, hospital equipment,
drugs, food or other appliances, materials or articles urgently required in
connection with the outbreak, to hand over the use of the land or premises or
to supply or make available the article, subject to the payment of a reasonable
amount as the hire or purchase price.
(2) Any person who, without reasonable cause, fails or refuses to
comply with any such requirement commits an offence.
35. Penalties for offences against Part V.
Any person who commits an offence against this Part of this Act is liable on
conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months or to
a fine not exceeding two thousand shillings or to both such imprisonment and
fine.
PART VI—PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
36. Powers to enforce precautions at borders.
(1) For the purpose of preventing the introduction of infectious
disease into Uganda the Minister may by statutory order—
(a) regulate, restrict or prohibit the entry into Uganda or any part of
Uganda of any person or of persons of any specified class or
description or from any specified country, locality or area;
(b) regulate, restrict or prohibit the introduction into Uganda or any
specified part of Uganda of any animal, article or thing;
(c) impose requirements or conditions as regards the medical
examination, detention, quarantine, disinfection, vaccination,
isolation or medical surveillance or otherwise of persons
entering, or the examination, detention or disinfection or
otherwise of such persons as aforesaid or of articles or things
introduced into Uganda or any part of Uganda.
(2) Any person who contravenes an order made under subsection (1)
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one
thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months,
or to both such fine and imprisonment.
PART VII—SMALLPOX.
37. Definition of "public vaccinator" and "unprotected person".
For the purposes of this Part of this Act—
(a) "public vaccinator" includes a public vaccinator appointed by the
chief medical officer and any person appointed by the chief
medical officer to assist or act for a public vaccinator and
includes any medical officer of health;
(b) "unprotected person" includes a child and means a person who
has not been protected from smallpox by having had the disease
either naturally or by inoculation or by having been successfully
vaccinated, or who has not been certified under this Act to be
insusceptible to vaccination.
38. Vaccination of children.
The parent or guardian of every child born in Uganda shall, within twelve
months from birth, unless the child is insusceptible or unfit or has suffered
from smallpox, cause the child to be successfully vaccinated by a public
vaccinator or medical practitioner, and the parent or guardian of every child
shall procure one of the following certificates in the form prescribed, signed
by a public vaccinator or medical practitioner—
(a) certificate of successful vaccination;
(b) certificate of insusceptibility to vaccination;
(c) certificate of unfitness for vaccination;
(d) certificate that the child has suffered from smallpox.
39. Vaccination of persons in or entering Uganda.
(1) After the introduction of this Act—
(a) the Minister may by statutory order declare any area to be a
compulsory vaccination area and shall in the order specify a
period in which the vaccination of all unvaccinated persons
dwelling in the area shall take place;
(b) every unvaccinated adult and the parent or guardian of every
unvaccinated child in any area declared to be a compulsory
vaccination area shall cause himself or herself and the child to be
vaccinated within the period specified;
(c) every unvaccinated adult and the parent or guardian of every
unvaccinated child entering Uganda shall cause himself or herself
and the child to be vaccinated within two months.
(2) The conditions and exceptions described in section 38 shall apply
to any adult or child described in this section.
(3) A person shall be deemed to be unvaccinated if he or she has not
been or fails to prove that he or she has been successfully vaccinated; except
that this section shall not apply to any person who can prove that reasonable
facilities for vaccination were not available.
40. If adult or child unfit for vaccination, certificate to be given.
(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 or revaccinated, he or
she shall give to the adult or to the parent or guardian of the child a certificate
under his or her hand according to the form in the First Schedule to this Act
or to the like effect, that the adult or child is then in a state unfit for
vaccination or revaccination.
(2) The certificate issued under subsection (1) shall remain in force
for six months only but shall be renewable for successive periods of six
months until the public vaccinator or medical practitioner shall deem the
adult or child to be fit for vaccination or revaccination when the adult or
child shall with all reasonable dispatch be vaccinated or revaccinated.
41. Certificate of insusceptibility to be given.
(1) If any public vaccinator or medical practitioner finds that any
adult or child whom he or she has three times unsuccessfully vaccinated is
insusceptible of successful vaccination, or that the adult or child coming or
brought to him or her for vaccination has already been successfully
inoculated or had smallpox, he or she shall deliver to the adult or to the
parent or guardian of the child a certificate under his or her hand, according
to the Second Schedule to this Act or to the like effect.
(2) A certificate of insusceptibility to vaccination shall be given by
a public vaccinator or medical practitioner only after three unsuccessful
attempts at vaccination at intervals of not less than one month have been
made by him or her with calf vaccine lymph of known efficiency.
42. Certificate to be given for successful vaccination.
Every public vaccinator or medical practitioner who has vaccinated any adult
or child, and has ascertained that the vaccination has been successful, shall
deliver to that adult or to the parent or guardian of that child a certificate in
the form in the Third Schedule to this Act, or to the like effect, certifying that
the adult or child has been successfully vaccinated.
43. No fee to be charged for a certificate or for vaccination by public
vaccinator.
(1) No fee or remuneration shall be charged to the person vaccinated
by any public vaccinator for any certificate granted under this Act, nor for
any vaccination done by him or her under this Act.
(2) A public vaccinator or medical practitioner giving any certificate
under this Act shall enter in it a description of the person in respect of whom
the certificate is given sufficient for the purpose of identification.
44. Vaccination of inmates of institutions.
Every superintendent or person in charge of a leper asylum, mental hospital,
chronic sick hospital, gaol, prison, reformatory or other similar institution
shall where practicable, cause to be vaccinated within fourteen days
following his or her admission to the institution every inmate of the
institution who, being in a fit state of health to undergo vaccination, fails to
prove satisfactorily that he or she has been successfully vaccinated within the
three years immediately preceding; if that person is at the time unfit to
undergo vaccination, he or she shall be vaccinated as soon as he or she is so
fit.
45. School attendance.
(1) No child shall be admitted to or attend any school until there has
been produced to the person in charge of the school a certificate or other
satisfactory evidence that vaccination as required by this Act has, with
respect to that child, been complied with; and any person who admits or
permits such child to be admitted commits an offence.
(2) For the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of
subsection (1) are being observed, every public vaccinator is authorised and
required, whenever instructed by the chief medical officer, to visit any school
and make in the school such inspection of the children attending there as will
enable him or her to furnish prescribed particulars to the chief medical officer
as to the children who are unvaccinated.
46. Supply of vaccine lymph and inoculation from arm to arm, etc.
forbidden.
Any person who inoculates himself or herself or any other person against
smallpox with material taken from a person suffering from smallpox or from
a vaccine vesicle on another person or by any method not prescribed by
regulations commits an offence.
47. Emergency vaccination of population in areas threatened with
smallpox.
In the event of the occurrence or threatened outbreak of smallpox in any
area—
(a) a local authority or a medical officer of health may require any
person who has or is suspected to have been in any way recently
exposed to smallpox infection to be vaccinated or revaccinated
immediately or may require the parent or guardian of any child
who has or is suspected to have been so exposed to have the child
vaccinated or revaccinated immediately. Any person failing to
comply with that requirement commits an offence;
(b) a local authority may, or when instructed by the Minister so to do
shall, require all persons within an area defined to attend at
centres according to instructions issued and to undergo
inspection, vaccination or revaccination as circumstances may
require. The instructions may be issued by notice in the press, or
by notices posted in public places, or otherwise as may be
deemed sufficient by the local authority. Nonattendance shall be
deemed to be an offence;
(c) any medical officer of health, public vaccinator or medical
practitioner duly authorised by the chief medical officer may
require any person in such an area to furnish satisfactory proof,
including the exhibition of vaccination scars, that he or she has
been successfully vaccinated within three years immediately
preceding the date of the requirement. Any person who fails to
furnish such proof as regards himself or herself or as regards any
child of which he or she is the parent or guardian, and refuses to
allow himself or herself or the child to be vaccinated, commits an
offence.
48. Power to make rules.
The Minister may make rules—
(a) prescribing forms of certificates, notices, returns and books of
record to be used in connection with public vaccination, and
defining the information to be furnished in them, and requiring
the furnishing and prescribing the manner of their use by
registrars of births, public vaccinators, local authorities, medical
practitioners, parents or guardians of children, persons in charge
of schools, employers of labour and others;
(b) conferring powers and imposing duties, in connection with the
carrying out or enforcement of vaccination, on magistrates,
administrative officers, members of a police force, or other
Government officers, local authorities, persons in charge of
schools, employers of labour, chiefs, headmen of locations and
others;
(c) prescribing and defining the duties, in connection with
vaccination, of medical practitioners and public vaccinators
employed by the Government;
(d) prescribing the conditions under which vaccine lymph may be
supplied free of charge to medical practitioners, local authorities
and others;
(e) prescribing the manner in which vaccination shall be performed
and the precautions to be observed by those performing it and by
the persons or the parents or the guardians of children vaccinated;
(f) providing for the vaccination or revaccination of persons and
assigning where deemed desirable the responsibility for carrying
out the vaccination or revaccination to local authorities or
employers of labour;
(g) as to the application and enforcement of this Part of this Act to
persons entering Uganda whether by land, water or air, and for
requiring, where deemed necessary, the vaccination or
revaccination of any person before entering; and
(h) generally for better carrying out the provisions and attaining the
objects and purposes of this Part of this Act.
PART VIII—VENEREAL DISEASES.
49. Venereal diseases.
The provisions of this Act, unless otherwise expressed, insofar as they
concern venereal diseases, shall be deemed to apply to primary or secondary
syphilis in its contagious forms, acute and chronic gonorrhoeal ophthalmia,
soft chancre, lympho granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum and any
other disease that may be declared by the Minister by statutory instrument as
a venereal disease.
50. Employment of infected persons.
(1) Every person who, while suffering from any venereal disease in
a communicable form, accepts or continues in employment either as an
employee or on his or her own account in or about any factory, shop, hotel,
restaurant, house, or any place in any capacity entailing the care of children,
or the handling of food intended for consumption, or food utensils for use by
any other person, commits an offence, unless he or she proves that he or she
did not know or suspect, and had no reasonable means of knowing or
suspecting, that he or she was so suffering.
(2) Every person commits an offence who employs or continues to
employ any person suffering from any venereal disease in a communicable
form if, by reason of the employment, that person is required or is permitted
to have the care of children, or to handle any food intended for consumption,
or food utensils, unless the defendant proves that he or she did not know or
suspect, and had no reasonable means of knowing or suspecting, that the
person so employed by him or her was suffering from the disease.
(3) An employer may dismiss summarily with payment of wages up
to the date of dismissal any employee employed in any manner set out in
subsections (1) and (2), if the employer has reasonable cause to suspect that
the employee is suffering from venereal disease and the employee refuses to
submit himself or herself to medical examination.
51. Publication of advertisements of cures.
(1) No person shall publish, exhibit or circulate any advertisement or
statement intended to promote the sale of any medicine, appliance or article
for the alleviation or cure of any venereal disease or disease affecting the
generative organs or functions, or of sexual impotence, or of any complaint
or infirmity arising from or relating to sexual intercourse.
(2) On and after the commencement of this Act a person shall not
hold out or recommend to the public by any notice or advertisement, or by
any written or printed papers or handbills, or any label or words written or
printed, affixed to or delivered with, any packet, box, bottle, phial or other
enclosure containing the same, any pills, capsules, powders, lozenges,
tinctures, potions, cordials, electuaries, plasters, unguents, salves, ointments,
drops, lotions, oils, spirits, medicated herbs and waters, chemical and
officinal preparations whatsoever, to be used or applied externally or
internally as medicines or medicaments for the prevention, cure or relief of
any venereal disease or disease affecting the generative organs or functions,
or of sexual impotence, or of any complaint or infirmity arising from or
relating to sexual intercourse.
(3) This section shall not apply to publications by the Ministry of
Health or by any local authority, public hospital, or other public body in the
discharge of its lawful duties or by any society or person acting with the
authority of the Minister first obtained, or to any books, documents or papers
published in good faith for the advancement of medical science.
52. Prevention of the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by
medical practitioner.
No person shall for reward either directly or indirectly, unless he or she is a
duly registered or licensed medical practitioner, treat any person for venereal
disease or suspected venereal disease or prescribe any remedy for venereal
disease, or give any advice in connection with the treatment of it, whether the
advice is given to the person to be treated or to any other person.
53. Offences and penalties.
(1) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Part of
this Act commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding three thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) When a person is convicted of an offence against this Part of this
Act, the court may order any advertisement or written matter specified in
section 51, or drugs, poisons, medicines, needles, syringes or surgical,
medical or diagnostic instruments or appliances, used by, belonging to, or in
the possession of the person convicted, to be forfeited, and to be destroyed
or otherwise disposed of.
PART IX—SANITATION AND HOUSING.
54. Nuisances prohibited.
No person shall cause a nuisance, or shall suffer to exist on any land or
premises owned or occupied by him or her or of which he or she is in charge,
any nuisance or other condition liable to be injurious or dangerous to health.
55. Duties of local authorities to maintain cleanliness and prevent
nuisances.
Every local authority shall take all lawful, necessary and reasonably
practicable measures for maintaining its area at all times in clean and sanitary
condition, and for preventing the occurrence in the area of, or for remedying
or causing to be remedied, any nuisance or condition liable to be injurious or
dangerous to health and to take proceedings at law against any person
causing or responsible for the continuance of any such nuisance or condition.
56. Duty of local authorities to prevent or remedy danger to health
arising from unsuitable dwellings.
(1) Every local authority shall 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 premises, or the
erection of dwellings or premises on unhealthy sites or on sites of insufficient
extent, or from overcrowding, or from the construction, condition or manner
of use of any factory or trade premises, and take proceedings under the law
or rules in force in its area against any person causing or responsible for the
continuance of any such condition.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), except with the consent of the
chief inspector appointed under the Factories Act, no action shall be taken by
any local authority under this Part of this Act in respect of any factory
premises if that action is likely to interfere with the condition or manner of
use of any machinery or plant.
57. What constitutes a nuisance.
The following shall be deemed to be nuisances liable to be dealt with in the
manner provided in this Part of this Act—
(a) any vehicle in such a state or condition as to be injurious or
dangerous to health;
(b) any dwelling or premises or part of the dwelling or premises
which is or are of such construction or in such a state or so
situated or so dirty or so verminous or so damp as to be likely to
be injurious or dangerous to health or which is or are liable to
favour the spread of any infectious disease;
(c) any street, road or any part thereof, any stream, pool, ditch,
gutter, watercourse, sink, water tank, cistern, water closet, earth
closet, privy, urinal, cesspool, soakaway pit, septic tank, cesspit,
soilpipe, wastepipe, drain, sewer, garbage receptacle, dust bin,
dung pit, refuse pit, slop tank, ash pit or manure heap, so foul or
in such a state or so situated or constructed as to be offensive or
to be likely to be injurious or dangerous to health;
(d) any growth of weeds, long grass, trees, undergrowth, hedge, bush
or vegetation of any kind which is injurious or dangerous to
health, and any vegetable that of itself is dangerous to children or
others either by its effluvia or through its leaves, seeds, fruits or
any part of it being eaten;
(e) any well or other source of water supply or any cistern or other
receptacle for water, whether public or private, the water from
which is used or is likely to be used by human beings for
drinking or domestic purposes or in connection with any dairy or
milkshop, or in connection with the manufacture or preparation
of any article of food intended for human consumption, which is
in a condition liable to render any such water injurious or
dangerous to health;
(f) any noxious matter, or waste water, flowing or discharged from
any premises, wherever situated, into any public street, or into the
gutter or side channel of any street, or into any gulley, swamp or
watercourse, irrigation channel or bed thereof not approved for
the reception of the discharge;
(g) any 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 carry such parasites or which may otherwise cause or
facilitate the infection of men or domestic animals by such
parasites;
(h) any collection of water in any well, pool, gutter, channel,
depression, excavation, barrel, tub, bucket, or any other article,
and found to contain any of the immature stages of the mosquito;
(i) any cesspit, latrine, urinal, dung pit, or ash pit found to contain
any of the immature stages of the mosquito;
(j) any stable, cowshed or other building or premises used for
keeping of animals or birds which is so constructed, situated,
used or kept as to be offensive or which is injurious or dangerous
to health;
(k) any animal so kept as to be offensive or injurious to health;
(l) any accumulation or deposit of refuse, offal, manure or other
matter which is offensive or which is injurious or dangerous to
health;
(m) any accumulation of stones, timber or other material of any
nature whatever if such is likely to harbour rats or other vermin;
(n) any premises in such a state or condition and any building so
constructed as to be likely to harbour rats;
(o) any dwelling or premises which is so overcrowded as to be
injurious or dangerous to the health of the inmates or is
dilapidated or defective in lighting or ventilation, or is not
provided with or is so situated that it cannot be provided with
sanitary accommodation to the satisfaction of a medical officer
of health;
(p) any public or other building which is so situated, constructed,
used or kept as to be unsafe or injurious or dangerous to health;
(q) any occupied dwelling for which such a proper, sufficient and
wholesome water supply is not available within a reasonable
distance as in the circumstances it is possible to obtain;
(r) any factory or trade premises not kept in a clean state and free
from offensive smell arising from any drain, privy, water closet,
earth closet or urinal, or not ventilated so as to destroy or render
harmless and inoffensive as far as practicable any gases, vapours,
dust or other impurities generated, or so overcrowded or so badly
lighted or ventilated as to be injurious or dangerous to the health
of those employed in the factory or trade premises;
(s) any factory or trade premises causing or giving rise to smells or
effluvia which are injurious or dangerous to health;
(t) any area of land kept or permitted to remain in such a state as to
be offensive, or liable to cause any infectious, communicable or
preventable disease or injury or danger to health;
(u) any chimney sending forth smoke in such quantity or in such
manner as to be offensive or injurious or dangerous to health;
(v) any cemetery, burial place, crematorium or other place of
sepulture so situated or so crowded or otherwise so conducted as
to be offensive or injurious or dangerous to health;
(w) any gutter, drain, shoot, stack pipe, downspout, water tank or
cistern which by reason of its insufficiency or its defective
condition causes damp in any dwelling;
(x) any deposit of material in or on any building or lane which causes
damp in any building so as to be dangerous or injurious to health;
(y) any dwelling, public building, trade premises, workshop or
factory not provided with sufficient and sanitary latrines.
58. Author of nuisance.
The author of a nuisance means the person by whose act, default or
sufferance the nuisance is caused, exists or is continued, whether he or she
is the owner or occupier or both owner and occupier or any other person.
59. Notice to remove nuisance.
A local authority or a medical officer of health, if satisfied of the existence
of a nuisance, may serve a notice on the author of the nuisance, or, if he or
she cannot be found, then on the occupier or owner of the dwelling or
premises on which the nuisance arises or continues, requiring him or her to
abate it within the time specified in the notice, and, if the local authority or
medical officer of health thinks it desirable, but not otherwise, any work to
be executed to abate or prevent a recurrence of the nuisance may be also
specified in the notice; except that—
(a) where the nuisance arises from any want or defect of a structural
character, or where the dwelling or premises are unoccupied, the
notice shall be served on the owner;
(b) where the author of the nuisance cannot be found or it is clear
that the nuisance does not arise or continue by the act or default
or sufferance of the occupier or owner of the dwelling or
premises, the local authority shall remove the nuisance and may
do what is necessary to prevent its recurrence.
60. Procedure in case owner fails to comply with notice.
(1) If the person on whom a notice to abate a nuisance has been
served under section 59 fails to comply with any of the requirements of the
notice within the time specified, or if the nuisance although abated since the
service of the notice is, in the opinion of the local authority, likely to recur
on the same premises, the local authority may cause a complaint relating to
the nuisance to be made before a court of competent jurisdiction; and the
court may thereupon issue a summons requiring the person on whom the
notice was served to appear before it.
(2) If the court is satisfied that the alleged nuisance exists, or that
although abated it is likely to recur on the same premises, the court shall
make an order on its author, or on the occupier or owner of the dwelling or
premises, as the case may be, requiring him or her to comply with all or any
of the requirements of the notice or otherwise to abate the nuisance within a
time specified in the order and to do any works necessary for that purpose;
or an order prohibiting the recurrence of the nuisance and directing the
execution of any works necessary to prevent the recurrence; or an order both
requiring abatement and prohibiting the recurrence of the nuisance.
(3) The court may by the order impose a fine not exceeding four
hundred shillings on the person on whom the order is made and may also
give directions as to the payment of all costs incurred up to the time of the
hearing or making of the order for the removal of the nuisance.
(4) Before making any order, the court may, if it thinks fit, adjourn
the hearing or further hearing of the summons until an inspection,
investigation or analysis in respect of the nuisance alleged has been made by
some competent person.
(5) Where the nuisance proved to exist is such as to render a dwelling
unfit, in the judgment of the court, for human habitation, the court may issue
a closing order prohibiting its use as a dwelling until in its judgment the
dwelling is fit for that purpose, and may further order that no rent shall be
due or payable by or on behalf of the occupier of that dwelling in respect of
the period in which the closing order exists; and on the court being satisfied
that it has been rendered fit for use as a dwelling, the court may terminate the
closing order and by a further order declare the dwelling habitable, and from
the date thereof the dwelling may be let or inhabited.
(6) Notwithstanding an order declaring a dwelling habitable, further
proceedings may be taken in accordance with this section in respect of the
same dwelling if any nuisance occurs or if the dwelling is again found to be
unfit for human habitation.
61. Penalties in relation to nuisances.
(1) Any person who fails to obey an order by a court of competent
jurisdiction to comply with the requirements of a local authority or medical
officer of health or otherwise to remove the nuisance shall, unless he or she
satisfies the court that he or she has used all diligence to carry out the order,
be liable to a fine not exceeding eighty shillings for every day during which
the default continues.
(2) Any person wilfully acting in contravention of a closing order
issued under section 60 is liable to a fine not exceeding eighty shillings for
every day during which the contravention continues.
(3) The local authority may in a case under subsection (1) or (2) enter
the premises to which the order relates and remove the nuisance and do
whatever may be necessary in the execution of the order and recover in any
competent court the expenses incurred from the person on whom the order
is made.
62. Court may order local 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 owner or occupier of the
premises, is not known or cannot be found, the court may at once order the
local authority to execute the works directed by the order and the cost of
executing the works shall be a charge on the property on which the nuisance
exists.
63. Provision in case of two orders for overcrowding relating to the
same house.
Where any court of competent jurisdiction has twice within a period of three
months issued an order as specified in section 60(2) relating to overcrowding
of the same premises or part of the same premises the court may, on the
application of a local authority, order the house to be closed for such period
as the court may deem necessary.
64. Power of sale.
Any matter or thing removed by a local authority in abating any nuisance
under this Part of this Act may be sold by public auction; and the money
arising from the sale may be retained by the local authority, and applied in
payment of the expenses incurred by it in reference to the nuisance, and the
surplus, if any, shall be paid, on demand, to the owner of the matter or thing
if he or she establishes his or her claim to it within two years from the date
of the sale, failing which the surplus shall become part of the public revenue.
65. Persons jointly responsible for nuisances may be proceeded
against.
(1) Where any nuisance liable to be dealt with in the manner provided
in this Part of this Act appears to be wholly or partly caused by the acts or
defaults of two or more persons, a local authority may institute proceedings
against any one of the persons or may include all or any two or more of them
in one proceeding, and any one or more of the persons may be ordered to
abate the nuisance, so far as it appears to be caused by his or her or their acts
or defaults, or may be prohibited from continuing any acts or defaults which
contribute to the nuisance, or may be fined or otherwise dealt with
notwithstanding that the acts or defaults of any one of the persons would not
separately have caused a nuisance; and the costs may be distributed as may
appear to the court fair and reasonable.
(2) Proceedings under subsection (1) against several persons included
in one complaint shall not abate by reason of the death of any of the persons
so included, but all such proceedings may be carried on as if the deceased
person had not been originally so included.
(3) Where only some of the persons by whose act or default any
nuisance has been caused or partly caused have been proceeded against under
this Part of this Act, they shall, without prejudice to any other remedy, be
entitled to recover from any other persons who were not so proceeded against
and by whose act or default the nuisance was caused or partly caused a
proportionate part of the costs of and incidental to the proceedings and
abating the nuisance, and of any fine and costs ordered to be paid in such
proceedings.
66. Notice to remove nuisance.
(1) Where, in the opinion of the local authority, a nuisance exists
with respect to premises which, in its opinion, are so dilapidated or so
defectively constructed or so situated that repairs to or alterations of the
premises are not likely to remove the nuisance, the local authority may apply
to the court for a demolition order; and, on the court being satisfied that the
nuisance exists, and that repairs to or alterations of the premises are not likely
to remove the nuisance, the court may order the owner of the premises to
commence to demolish the premises on or before a specified day, being at
least one month from the date of issuing the order and to complete the
demolition and to remove the materials which comprised the premises from
the site before another specified day; but before a demolition order is made,
notice of the application for the order shall be served on the owner of the
premises who may attend and give evidence at the hearing of the application
by the court.
(2) The court shall give notice to the occupier of premises in respect
of which a demolition order has been issued requiring him or her to move
from the premises within a time to be specified in the notice, and if any
person fails to comply with the notice or enters the premises, without lawful
excuse, after the date fixed he or she commits an offence.
(3) If any person fails to comply with an order for demolition, he or
she commits an offence and is liable to pay the daily fine provided in section
61(2) and the local authority may cause the premises to be demolished and
may recover from the owner the expense incurred in doing so after deducting
the net proceeds of the sale of the materials which the local authority may
sell by auction.
(4) No compensation shall be paid by the local authority to the owner
or occupier of any premises in respect of its demolition under this section,
and from the date of the demolition order no rent shall be due or payable by
or on behalf of the occupier in respect of the premises.
(5) In this section, "court" means a magistrate's court over which
presides a chief magistrate or a magistrate grade I.
67. Prohibition in respect of back-to-back dwellings and rooms
without through ventilation.
(1) The Minister may, by statutory order, prohibit within any area
defined in the order—
(a) the erection of any premises intended to be used as a dwelling
constructed on the back-to-back system;
(b) the erection of any room intended to be used as a sleeping or
living or work room which is not sufficiently lighted by a
window or windows of a total area not less than one-eighth of the
floor area and sufficiently ventilated by two or more ventilation
openings or by windows capable of being wholly or partly
opened, the windows or openings being so placed as to secure
through cross ventilation; or
(c) the erection of any premises intended to be used as a dwelling on
made ground containing street sweepings, refuse, rubbish or other
matter liable to decomposition until the approval of the local
authority has been obtained and until such measures for
safeguarding health have been taken as the local authority may
require.
(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of this section
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one
thousand shillings and to a further fine not exceeding forty shillings for every
day during which the contravention continues after the date fixed in any
written notice in respect of the contravention from the local authority.
68. Cost of execution of provisions relating to nuisances.
(1) All reasonable costs and expenses incurred in serving a notice,
making a complaint or obtaining a nuisance order, or in carrying the order
into effect, shall be deemed to be money paid for the use and at the request
of the person on whom the order is made; or, if no order is made but the
nuisance is proved to have existed when the notice was served or the
complaint made, then of the author of the nuisance.
(2) Such costs and expenses incurred in relation to any such nuisance
may be recovered as a civil debt, and the court shall have power to divide the
costs and expenses between the authors as to it may seem just.
(3) Where, in accordance with this Act, a local authority has itself
abated or removed a nuisance or done what is necessary to prevent its
recurrence, if no owner or occupier of the premises can be found, or appears
or pays the expenses incurred by the abatement or removal within six months
after the completion of the removal or abatement of the nuisance, the court
may order the premises upon which the work has been done, or any part of
the premises, or any movable property found on the premises, to be sold by
public auction, and the amount realised by the sale shall be applied in
defraying the costs and expenses, and the balance, if any, paid over to the
owner or occupier if he or she establishes his or her claim to it within two
years after the date of the sale, failing which the balance shall become part
of the public revenue.
69. Examination of premises.
A local authority or a medical officer of health may enter any building or
premises for the purpose of examining as to the existence of any nuisance in
the building or premises at all reasonable times; and the local authority may
if necessary open up the ground of the premises and cause the drains to be
tested, or such other work to be done as may be necessary for the effectual
examination of the premises; but if no nuisance is found to exist, the local
authority shall restore the premises at its own expense.
70. Power of Minister to make rules.
The Minister may make rules and may confer powers and impose duties in
connection with the carrying out and enforcement of the rules on local
authorities, owners and others as to—
(a) the inspection of land, dwellings, buildings, factories and trade
premises, and for securing keeping them clean and free from
nuisance and so as not to endanger the health of the inmates or
the public health;
(b) the construction of buildings, the provision of proper lighting and
ventilation and the prevention of overcrowding;
(c) the periodical cleansing and whitewashing or other treatment of
premises and the cleansing of land attached to the premises and
the removal of rubbish or refuse therefrom;
(d) the drainage of land, streets or premises, the disposal of offensive
liquids and the removal and disposal of rubbish, refuse, manure
and waste matters;
(e) the standard or standards of purity of any liquid which, after
treatment in any purification works, may be discharged from the
purification works as effluent;
(f) the keeping of animals or birds and the construction, cleanliness
and drainage of places where animals or birds are kept;
(g) the establishment and carrying on of offensive trades, factories or
trade premises which are liable to cause offensive smells or
effluvia, or to discharge liquid or other material liable to cause
such smells or effluvia, or to pollute streams, or are otherwise
liable to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health, and for
prohibiting the establishment or carrying on of such factories or
trade premises in unsuitable localities or so as to be a nuisance or
injurious or dangerous to health;
(h) the subdivision and general layout of land intended to be used as
building sites, the level, construction, number, direction and the
width of streets and thoroughfares, the limitation of the number
of dwellings or other buildings to be erected on such lands, the
proportion of any building site which may be built upon and the
establishment of zones within which different limitations shall
apply and zones within which may be prohibited the
establishment or conduct of occupations or trades likely to cause
nuisance or annoyance to persons residing in the neighbourhood;
(i) the inspection of the district of any local authority by that local
authority with a view to ascertaining whether the lands and
buildings thereon are in a state to be injurious or dangerous to
health and the preparation, keeping and publication of such
records as may be required;
(j) the general control of houses let-in lodgings, for fixing the
maximum number of lodgers, the minimum floor space allotted
to each lodger, for the adequate ventilation and lighting and
periodical cleansing and limewashing at stated intervals of the
premises and for the provision of adequate sanitary appliances
and other requirements having for their object the protection of
the health of the lodgers or surrounding inhabitants;
(k) the sanitary control of markets and market buildings.
71. Rules as to buildings.
(1) The power under section 70 to make rules relating to the
construction of buildings shall include the power to regulate the following
matters—
(a) as regards buildings—
(i) the construction of buildings and the materials to be used in
the construction of buildings;
(ii) the space about buildings, the lighting and ventilation of
buildings and the dimensions of rooms intended for human
habitation;
(iii) the height of buildings;
(iv) the height of chimneys, not being separate buildings, above
the roof of the building of which they form part;
(b) as regards works and fittings—
(i) sanitary conveniences in connection with buildings;
(ii) the drainage of buildings, including the means for
conveying soil, waste, storm and subsoil water from
buildings and their curtilages;
(iii) cesspools and other means for the reception or disposal of
foul matter in connection with buildings;
(iv) ash pits in connection with buildings;
(v) wells, tanks and cisterns for the supply of water for human
consumption in connection with buildings;
(vi) stoves and other fittings in buildings, not being electric
stoves or fittings, insofar as rules with respect to such
matters are required for the purposes of health and the
prevention of fire;
(vii) private and public sewers, communications between drains
and sewers and between sewers.
(2) Any rules to which this section relates may include provisions as
to—
(a) the giving of notices and the deposit of plans, sections,
specifications and written particulars;
(b) the inspection of work;
(c) the protection and testing of drains and private sewers, and the
taking by the local authority of samples of materials to be used in
the construction of buildings, or in the execution of other works;
(d) the protection of public sewers;
(e) the examination and licensing of plumbers and drain layers; and
(f) the fixing and charging of fees in respect of any of the foregoing
matters and the persons to whom the fees shall be paid.
72. Power to require removal or alteration of work not in conformity
with rules.
(1) If any work to which any rules referred to in section 71 are
applicable contravenes any of those rules, the local authority, without
prejudice to its right to take proceedings for a fine in respect of the
contravention, may by notice require the owner either to pull down or remove
the work or, if he or she so elects, to effect the alterations in the work as may
be necessary to make it comply with the rules.
(2) If a person to whom a notice has been given under subsection (1)
fails to comply with the notice before the expiration of twenty-eight days, or
such longer period as the local authority may allow, the local authority may
pull down or remove the work in question, or effect such alterations in the
work as it deems necessary, and may recover from him or her the expenses
reasonably incurred by it in so doing.
(3) No such notice as is mentioned in subsection (1) shall be given
after the expiration of twelve months from the date of the completion of the
work in question, and, in any case where plans were deposited, it shall not be
open to the local authority to give such a notice on the ground that the work
contravenes any building rule, if either the plans were passed by the local
authority, or notice of their rejection was not given within the prescribed
period from the deposit of the plans, and if the work has been executed in
accordance with the plans and of any requirement made by the local authority
as a condition of passing the plans.
73. Limitation of powers granted under this Part.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no person other than the
local authority concerned shall, except in respect of plots or premises in non-
African occupation, exercise outside the boundaries of a municipality or town
any of the powers conferred on that person by this Part of this Act without
the particular or general authorisation in writing of the district commissioner
which may at any time be revoked.
(2) Whenever that particular or general authorisation is refused or
revoked, the district commissioner shall forthwith report the circumstances
to the chief medical officer.
PART X—SPECIAL PROVISIONS AS TO SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
74. Application.
This Part of this Act or any sections in this Part shall apply to all local
authorities.
75. Interpretation.
(1) In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the
following terms shall have the following meanings—
(a) "cesspool" includes a settlement tank or other tank for the
reception or disposal of foul matter from buildings;
(b) "earth closet" means a pit latrine, privy or a closet having a
movable receptacle for the reception of faecal matter;
(c) "lateral drain" means that portion of a system of drains or private
sewers, which—
(i) in the case of a sewer for soil and waste water, lies between
the intercepting chamber and the public sewer, including
the interception trap and sewer connection; or
(ii) in the case of a sewer for storm water, lies between the last
inspection chamber and the public sewer, or, if there is no
inspection chamber, between the curtilage of the premises
and the public sewer;
(d) "prejudicial to health" means injurious or likely to cause injury
to health;
(e) "private sewer" means a sewer which is not a public sewer;
(f) "public sewer" means any sewer vested in or constructed by or
on behalf of or under the control of a local authority;
(g) "sewer" does not include a drain as defined in section 1 but,
except as aforesaid, includes all sewers and drains used for the
drainage of buildings and yards appurtenant to buildings and their
curtilages;
(h) "slop hopper" means any fitting intended for the reception of soil
water;
(i) "soil water" means any discharge from water closets, slop
hoppers or urinals and all water containing any excremental
liquid or substance;
(j) "storm water" includes surface or rain water;
(k) "waste water" means liquid waste of a nonexcremental nature but
does not include storm water;
(l) "water closet" means latrine accommodation used, adapted or
intended to be used in connection with a water carriage system
and comprising provision for the flushing of the receptacle by
means of a water supply;
(m) "workplace" does not include a factory or workshop but except
as aforesaid includes any place in which persons are employed
otherwise than in domestic service.
(2) Any reference in this Part of this Act to a drain or sewer shall be
construed as including a reference to any manholes, ventilating shafts, pumps
or other accessories belonging to that drain or sewer.
(3) For the purposes of this Part of this Act, a building or proposed
building shall not be deemed to have a public sewer available unless—
(a) there is or there is in course of construction within one hundred
feet of the curtilage of the building or proposed building, and at
a level which makes it reasonably practicable to construct a drain
to communicate with it, a public sewer or other sewer which the
owner of the building or proposed building is, or will be, entitled
to use; and
(b) the intervening land is land through which he or she is entitled to
construct a drain,
and shall not be deemed to have a sufficient water supply available unless it
has a sufficient supply of water laid on from a supply controlled by a water
authority appointed under the Water Act, or unless such a supply can be laid
on to it from a point within one hundred feet of the curtilage of the building
or proposed building, and the intervening land is land through which the
owner of the building or proposed building is, or will be, entitled to lay a
communication pipe; except that the limit of one hundred feet shall not apply,
if the local authority undertakes to bear so much of the expenses reasonably
incurred in constructing a drain to communicate with a public sewer or, as
the case may be, in laying a pipe for the purpose of obtaining a supply of
water, as may be attributable to the fact that the distance of the public sewer,
or of the point from which a supply of water can be laid on, exceeds that one
hundred feet.
Public sewers.
76. Provision of public sewers and sewage disposal works.
(1) A local authority may within its district and also, subject to the
prior approval of the Minister, without its district—
(a) construct and maintain a public sewer—
(i) in, under or over any street, or under any cellar or vault
below any street; and
(ii) in, or over any land not forming part of a street, after giving
reasonable notice to every owner and occupier of that land;
(b) construct sewage disposal works on any public land or land
acquired, or lawfully appropriated for the purpose.
(2) In the exercise of its powers under subsection (1)(a)(ii), the local
authority shall not be liable to pay any compensation to an owner or occupier
of any private lands but shall make good, or, at its option, shall pay for any
damage done or occasioned by reason of the exercise of the powers.
77. Duty of local authority to keep map showing public sewers.
(1) Every local authority shall keep deposited at its offices, for
inspection by any person at all reasonable hours, free of charge, a map
showing and distinguishing all public sewers existing or in the course of
construction within its district or under its control.
(2) Where some of the public sewers are reserved for soil and waste
water only or for storm water only, the map referred to in this section shall
show also the purposes which each such sewer is intended to serve.
78. Power of local authority to alter or close public sewers.
A local authority may alter the size or course of any public sewer vested in
it, or may discontinue and prohibit the use of any such public sewer, either
entirely, or for the purpose of soil and waste water drainage, or for the
purpose of storm water drainage, but, before any person who is lawfully
using the public sewer for any purpose is deprived by the local authority of
the use of the sewer for that purpose, the local authority shall provide a
public sewer equally effective for his or her use for that purpose and shall at
its expense make his or her drains or sewers to communicate with the sewer
so provided.
79. Certain matters not to be passed into sewers or drains.
(1) No person shall throw, empty or turn, or suffer or permit to be
thrown or emptied or to pass, into any public sewer, or into any drain or
private sewer communicating with a public sewer—
(a) any matter likely to injure the sewer or drain, or to interfere with
the free flow of its contents, or to affect prejudicially the
treatment and disposal of its contents;
(b) any chemical refuse or waste steam, or any liquid of a
temperature higher than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit,
being refuse or steam which, or a liquid which when so heated,
is, either alone or in combination with the contents of the sewer
or drain, dangerous, or the cause of a nuisance, or prejudicial to
health; or
(c) any petroleum spirit, or carbide of calcium.
(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two
hundred shillings and to a further fine not exceeding one hundred shillings
for each day on which the offence continues after conviction for the offence.
(3) In this section, "petroleum spirit" means only such—
(a) crude petroleum;
(b) oil made from petroleum, or from coal, shale, peat or other
bituminous substances; or
(c) product of petroleum or mixture containing petroleum,
as, when tested in the manner prescribed by or under the Petroleum Act gives
off an inflammable vapour at a temperature of less than seventy-six degrees
Fahrenheit.
Right to connect with public sewers.
80. Right of owners and occupiers within district of local authority to
drain into public sewers.
(1) Subject to this section and section 83, the owner or occupier of
any premises, or the owner of any private sewer, within the district of a local
authority shall be entitled to have his or her drains or private sewer made to
communicate with any available public sewer of that authority, and thereby
to discharge soil and waste water and storm water from those premises or that
private sewer.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1)—
(a) to discharge directly or indirectly into any public sewer—
(i) any liquid from a manufacturing process or any liquid from
a factory, other than domestic sewage or storm water,
except by agreement with the local authority;
(ii) any liquid or other matter the discharge of which into
public sewers is prohibited by or under any enactment,
including any enactment in this Act;
(b) where separate public sewers are provided for soil and waste
water and for storm water, to discharge directly or indirectly—
(i) soil or waste water into a sewer provided for storm water;
or
(ii) except with the approval of the local authority, storm water
into a sewer provided for soil and waste water;
(c) to have his or her drains or private sewer made to communicate
directly with a storm water overflow sewer;
(d) to have his or her drains or private sewer made to communicate
with a public sewer provided for soil and waste water until he or
she satisfies the local authority that the premises to be drained
have a sufficient water supply available; or
(e) to have his or her drains or private sewer made to communicate
with any public sewer if that sewer is situated in excess of one
hundred feet of the curtilage of the premises.
81. Use of public sewers by owners and occupiers without the district
of a local authority.
(1) Subject to this section, the owner or occupier of any premises and
the owner of any private sewer without the district of a local authority shall
have the like rights with respect to drainage into the available public sewers
of the local authority as he or she would have under section 80 if his or her
premises or private sewer were situate within its district, that section shall
apply accordingly.
(2) Without prejudice to the prohibition contained in section 80
against the discharge of certain liquids or other matters into public sewers or
into some public sewers, or to the right of a local authority under section 83
to refuse to permit a communication to be made on any grounds set out in
section 83(1) and to require the drain or private sewer to be laid open for
inspection, the local authority may, in the case of a drain or private sewer
from premises outside its district, refuse to permit a communication to be
made except upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed
or as the Minister may approve.
(3) The terms and conditions referred to in subsection (2) may
include—
(a) compliance with any reasonable requirements of the local
authority that the premises to be drained shall be sanitary or in a
proper state of repair; and
(b) reasonable payment or periodical payment as, subject to any
special or general directions of the Minister, the local authority
may see fit to impose.
82. Sewer connections in streets and through private land.
For the purpose of making or maintaining a communication with a public
sewer, it shall be lawful for a local authority to construct or repair a lateral
drain or, with the prior consent of the local authority and in such manner as
it may approve, for the owner of any building to construct or repair a drain
or private sewer, as the case may be, in, on or over any land, but where that
land does not form a part of a street, the local authority or owner shall give
to every owner or occupier of the land reasonable notice and shall be liable
to make good or, at the option of the local authority or the owner undertaking
the works, to pay for any damage done or occasioned by reason of the
exercise of the power; but the works intended to be carried out in exercise of
the powers conferred in this section shall not interfere unduly with the
amenities or future development of the land or any adjacent land and, in case
of dispute, a person aggrieved may appeal in the manner set out in section
127(6) and (7).
83. Procedure in regard to making communication with public sewers.
(1) A person who wishes or who is required to have his or her drains
or private sewers made to communicate with a public sewer shall give to the
local authority notice of his or her proposals in writing in such manner as
may be prescribed.
(2) At any time within twenty-one days of the receipt of that notice,
the local authority may by notice to him or her refuse to make the
communication if it appears to the authority that the mode of construction of
the drain or private sewer is not in conformity with the rules in force
governing the construction, or that the condition of the drain or private sewer
or the matter carried or to be carried by the drain or private sewer is such that
the making of the communication would be prejudicial to the sewerage
system of the authority; and for the purpose of examining the mode of
construction and condition of the drain or private sewer the authority may,
if necessary, require it to be laid open for inspection.
(3) If no notice is served on such person under subsection (2), the
local authority shall, with all reasonable dispatch, cause the communication
to be made by means of a lateral drain to the public sewer in such manner as
may be prescribed or as the authority may decide, but it shall not be
obligatory on the authority to make the communication until the estimated
cost of the work has been paid to it or security for payment has been given
to its satisfaction.
(4) If any payment so made to the local authority exceeds the
expenses reasonably incurred by it in the execution of the work, the excess
shall be repaid by it; and if and so far as those expenses are not covered by
the payment made to it, the authority may recover the expenses, or the
balance of the expenses, from the person for whom the work was done.
(5) For the purposes of this section, the making of the communication
between a drain or private sewer and a public sewer includes all such work
as involves the breaking open of a street and the taking of any steps which
the local authority may consider necessary for repairing, relaying or
safeguarding any pipes, drains, lines or any other works which may be or are
liable to be disturbed or damaged by or in the course of making the
communication.
(6) Any lateral drain so constructed shall vest in the local authority,
but shall not thereby become a public sewer, and its maintenance, repair and
renewal from time to time shall be carried out by the authority at the expense
of the owner of the premises served by the drain.
(7) Any person, other than a person lawfully acting on behalf of a
local authority, who causes a drain or sewer to communicate with a public
sewer and any person who fails to comply with or acts in contravention of
any of the provisions of this section commits an offence and is liable on
conviction to a fine not exceeding four hundred shillings and, whether
proceedings have or have not been taken in respect of that offence, the local
authority may close any communication made in contravention of any of
those provisions, and recover from the offender any expenses reasonably
incurred by it in so doing.
Drainage and latrines of new buildings.
84. New buildings to be provided with any necessary drains, etc.
(1) Where plans of a building or of an extension of a building are, in
accordance with any building rules, deposited with a local authority, the
authority shall reject the plans unless either the plans show that satisfactory
provision will be made for the drainage of the building or of the extension,
as the case may be, or the authority is satisfied that in the case of the
particular building or extension it may properly dispense with any provision
for drainage.
(2) In this section, "drainage" includes the conveyance, by means of
a drain, of soil and waste water and the conveyance of storm water and
subsoil water from the building and its curtilage.
(3) A proposed drain shall not be deemed to be a satisfactory drain
for the purposes of this section unless it is proposed to be made, as the
authority may require, to connect with an available public sewer, or, if there
is no such sewer, to discharge into a cesspool or other place which the local
authority may approve.
85. Latrine accommodation to be provided for new buildings.
Where plans of a building or of an extension of a building are, in accordance
with any building rules, deposited with a local authority, the authority shall
reject the plans unless either the plans and the prescribed particulars
deposited with them show that the prescribed or sufficient and satisfactory
latrine accommodation will be provided, or the authority is satisfied that in
the case of a particular building or extension it may properly dispense with
the provision of latrine accommodation; except that—
(a) unless a sufficient water supply and public sewer are available,
the authority shall not reject the plans on the ground that the
proposed accommodation consists of or includes an earth closet
or earth closets of a type approved by the authority; and
(b) if the plans and the deposited particulars show that the proposed
building or extension is likely to be used as a factory, workshop
or workplace in which persons of both sexes will be employed,
or will be in attendance, the authority shall reject the plans,
unless either the authority is satisfied that sufficient and
satisfactory separate latrine accommodation for persons of each
sex will be provided, or that in the circumstances of the particular
case it may properly dispense with the provision of such separate
accommodation.
Drainage and latrines of existing buildings.
86. Provisions as to drainage, etc. of existing buildings.
(1) If it appears to a local authority that in the case of any building—
(a) satisfactory provision has not been, and ought to be, made for
drainage;
(b) any cesspool, private sewer, drain, soil pipe, rain water pipe,
spout, sink or other necessary appliance provided for the
buildings is defective or insufficient;
(c) any cesspool or other such work or appliance as aforesaid
provided for the building is in such a condition as to be
prejudicial to health or a nuisance; or
(d) any cesspool, private sewer or drain formerly used for the
drainage of the building, but no longer used for that drainage, is
prejudicial to health or a nuisance,
it shall by notice require the owner of the building to make satisfactory
provision for the drainage of the building, or, as the case may be, require
either the owner or the occupier of the building to do such work as may be
necessary for renewing, repairing or cleansing the existing cesspool, sewer,
drain, pipe, spout, sink or other appliance, or for filling up, removing or
otherwise rendering innocuous the disused cesspool, sewer or drain.
(2) Except in cases where the local authority is satisfied that in the
case of any particular building it may properly dispense with any provision
for drainage, for the purposes of subsection (1) "satisfactory provision for
drainage" means that the drainage systems and appliances of the building
comply with the rules for the time being in force relating to them and that the
drainage systems of the premises connect with available public sewers, or,
if there are no public sewers, discharge into cesspools or other places which
the authority may approve.
87. Replacement of earth closets, etc. by water closets.
If any existing building in the district of a local authority has a sufficient
water supply and sewer available, the authority shall, by notice to the owner
of the building, require that any latrines, other than water closets, provided
for, or in connection with, the building shall be replaced by water closets, and
that the owner shall make an application within a specified time to have his
or her drains made to communicate with a public sewer under section 83,
notwithstanding that the latrines are not insufficient in number and are not
prejudicial to health or are not a nuisance.
88. Buildings having insufficient or defective latrines.
If it appears to a local authority—
(a) that any building is without sufficient latrine accommodation; or
(b) that any latrines provided for or in connection with a building are
in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance and
cannot without reconstruction be put into a satisfactory condition,
the authority shall by notice to the owner of the building require him or her
to provide the building with such latrines or additional latrines, or such
substituted latrines, being in each case either water closets or earth closets of
a type approved by the authority and as may be necessary; but unless a
sufficient water supply and public sewer are available, the authority shall not
require the provision of a water closet except in substitution for an existing
water closet.
89. Buildings having defective latrines capable of repair.
(1) If it appears to a local authority that any latrines provided for or
in connection with a building are in such a state as to be prejudicial to health
or a nuisance, but that they can without reconstruction be put into a
satisfactory condition, the authority shall by notice require the owner or the
occupier of the building to execute such works, or to take such steps by
cleansing the latrines or otherwise, as may be necessary for that purpose.
(2) Insofar as such a notice requires a person to take any steps other
than the execution of works, if he or she fails to comply with the notice, he
or she commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred
shillings and to a further fine not exceeding forty shillings for each day on
which the offence continues after conviction for it; except that in any
proceedings under this subsection it shall be open to the defendant to
question the reasonableness of the authority's requirements or of its decision
to address the notice to him or her and not to the occupier or, as the case may
be, the owner of the building.
Drainage of buildings in combination.
90. Drainage of buildings in combination.
(1) Where a local authority might under this Part of this Act require
each of two or more buildings to be drained separately into an existing public
sewer, but it appears to the authority that those buildings may be drained
more economically or advantageously in combination, the authority may,
when the drains of the buildings are first laid, require that the buildings be
drained in combination into the existing public sewer by means of a private
sewer to be constructed either by the owners of the buildings in such manner
as the authority may direct, or, if the authority so elects, by the authority on
behalf of the owners; but an authority shall not, except by agreement with the
owners concerned, exercise the powers conferred by this subsection in
respect of any building for the drainage of which plans have been previously
passed by it.
(2) An authority which makes such a requirement as set out in
subsection (1) shall fix the proportions in which the expenses of constructing,
and of maintaining and repairing, the private sewer are to be borne by the
owners concerned, or, in a case in which the distance of the existing public
sewer from the curtilage of any of the buildings in question is or exceeds one
hundred feet, the proportions in which those expenses are to be borne by the
owners concerned and the local authority, and shall forthwith give notice of
the decision to each owner affected.
(3) An owner aggrieved by a decision of a local authority may appeal
to a court over which presides a chief magistrate or a magistrate grade I
exercising jurisdiction in the place where the premises are situated in
pursuance of any rules made by the Chief Justice with the prior approval of
the Minister.
(4) Subject to any such appeal, any expenses reasonably incurred in
constructing, or in maintaining or repairing, the private sewer shall be borne
in the proportions so fixed, and those expenses or, as the case may be,
contributions to the expenses, may be recovered accordingly by the person,
whether the authority or owners, by whom they were incurred in the first
instance.
(5) A sewer constructed by a local authority under this section shall
not be deemed to be a public sewer by reason of the fact that the expenses of
its construction are in the first instance defrayed by the authority, or by
reason of the fact that some part of those expenses is borne by it.
91. Payment of advances for defraying drainage expenses.
(1) In any case where it appears to a local authority that the owner or
occupier of any premises is unable to make a present payment of the amount
of the expenses necessary to be incurred for the drainage and sewerage of the
premises and the communication of the premises with an available public
sewer, the local authority may, subject to any general or special directions of
the Minister in that behalf, make an agreement in the prescribed form with
the owner or occupier for the advance of a sum of money for the necessary
expenses at such interest as may be prescribed and for its repayment in such
and so many installments as the authority may determine.
(2) Any sum of money so advanced shall be a charge on the premises
and all estates and interests in the premises in respect of which the advance
is made, and the provisions of section 129 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, as
if the sum advanced were expenses incurred by a local authority under this
Act.
92. Rules.
The Minister may make rules for the purpose of prescribing any matters
required to be prescribed and generally for carrying out the purposes of this
Part of this Act.
PART XI—PREVENTION AND DESTRUCTION OF MOSQUITOES.
93. Breeding places of mosquitoes to be nuisances.
For the purposes of this Part of this Act—
(a) any collection of water, sewage, rubbish, refuse, ordure or other
fluid or solid substance, which permits or facilitates the breeding
or multiplication of animal or vegetable parasites of human
beings or domestic animals, or of insects or of other agents which
are known to carry such parasites or which may otherwise cause
or facilitate the infection of human beings or domestic animals by
such parasites;
(b) any collection of water in any well, pool, gutter, channel,
depression, excavation, barrel, tub, bucket or any other article,
found to contain any of the immature stages of the mosquito;
(c) any cesspit, latrine, urinal, dung pit or ash pit found to contain
any of the immature stages of the mosquito,
shall be nuisances liable to be dealt with in the manner provided in this Act
for the treatment of nuisances.
94. Yards to be kept free from bottles, whole or broken, etc.
(1) The occupier or owner of any premises shall keep the premises
free from all bottles, whole or broken, whether fixed on walls or not, tins,
boxes, calabashes, earthenware vessels, shells or any other articles, and trees,
standing or fallen, which are kept so that they are likely to retain water.
(2) Any occupier or owner of any premises failing to comply with
subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding one hundred shillings.
95. Clearance of bush or long grass.
No person shall within a municipality or town permit any premises or lands
owned or occupied by him or her or over which he or she has control to
become so overgrown with bush or long grass as, in the opinion of a medical
officer of health, to be likely to harbour mosquitos.
96. 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 on the premises, any collection
of water in any well, barrel, tub, bucket, tank, or other vessel intended for the
storage of water, unless the well, barrel, tub, bucket, tank or other vessel is
fitted with a sufficient cover, the cover to be kept in good repair and properly
protected or screened to the satisfaction of a medical officer of health so as
to prevent the ingress of mosquitos into the same.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence
and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred shillings and,
after notice received from a local authority or a medical officer of health, to
a further fine not exceeding twenty shillings for each day during which he or
she makes default.
97. Cesspits to be screened or protected.
(1) The occupier or owner of any premises upon or attached to which
is any cesspit shall cause the cesspit to be properly protected or screened to
the satisfaction of a medical officer of health so as to prevent the ingress of
mosquitos.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence
and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred shillings and
to a further fine not exceeding twenty shillings for each day during which he
or she continues to make default after notice received from the local authority
to comply with this section.
98. 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, channel, barrel, tub,
bucket, tank or any other vessel, or any bottle, whole or broken, whether
fixed on a wall or not, tin, box, calabash, shell or any other article, or in a
tree, fallen or standing, the local authority or medical officer of health may
take immediate steps to destroy the immature stages of the mosquito by the
application of oil or larvicide, or otherwise, and to take such action as is
necessary to prevent the recurrence of the nuisance and to render any pools
or collections of water unfit to become breeding places for mosquitoes.
99. Mere presence of mosquito larvae an offence.
(1) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act, the occupier or owner
of any house or premises, or the owner or person having the charge of any
vessel, timber, cask, or other articles, in or about which there is any
collection of water found by a medical officer of health, or any person
authorised by him or her, to contain any of the immature stages of the
mosquito commits an offence and is liable on conviction in respect of each
and every such collection of water to a fine not exceeding one hundred
shillings or in default to imprisonment for seven days.
(2) No prosecution under this section shall be instituted except with
the sanction of the chief medical officer.
100. Limitation of powers granted under this Part.
The provisions of section 73 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the exercise of
any powers granted under this Part of this Act to any person other than a
local authority.
PART XII—PROTECTION OF FOODSTUFFS.
101. Construction and regulation of buildings used for the storage of
foodstuffs.
(1) All warehouses or buildings of whatever nature in regular use for
the storage of foodstuffs for trade purposes shall be constructed of such
materials and in such manner as shall render the warehouses or buildings
ratproof.
(2) Where any warehouse or building intended for the storage of
foodstuffs as provided in subsection (1) has fallen into a state of disrepair, or
does not afford sufficient protection against rat invasion on account of its
design or construction by reason of the materials used being defective, a local
authority may by written notice require the owner to effect such repairs and
alterations as the notice shall prescribe within a time to be specified in that
notice, and if the requirement is not complied with the local authority may
enter upon the premises and effect such repairs and alterations, and may
recover all costs and expenses incurred from the owner.
(3) Where in the opinion of a medical officer of health any such
foodstuffs within a warehouse or building are insufficiently protected against
rats, vermin, or pollution, the owner thereof shall observe all written
instructions and directions of the medical officer of health within a time to
be specified in the notice for the better protection of the foodstuffs.
102. No person shall reside or sleep in any room in which foodstuffs are
stored, etc.
(1) No person shall reside or sleep in any kitchen or room in which
foodstuffs for sale are prepared or stored for sale.
(2) If it appears to a medical officer of health that any kitchen or
room is being used contrary to the provisions of this section, or that any part
of the premises adjoining the room in which foodstuffs are stored or exposed
for sale is being used as a sleeping apartment under such circumstances that
the foodstuffs are likely to be contaminated or made unwholesome, he or she
may serve upon the offender or upon the owner of the house or upon both a
notice calling for such measures to be taken as shall prevent the improper use
of the kitchen and premises within a time to be specified in the notice, and
if the notice is not complied with the party upon whom it was served
commits an offence.
PART XIII—WATER AND FOOD SUPPLIES.
103. Duty of local authorities as to polluted water supplies.
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 the supply
is derived from sources within or beyond its district; and
(b) for purifying any such supply which has become so polluted,
and to take measures, including, if necessary, proceedings at law, against any
person so polluting any such supply or polluting any stream so as to be a
nuisance or danger to health.
104. Minister may make rules.
(1) The Minister may make rules for any purpose having as its object
the preservation of health or the prevention of disease.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing power, the Minister may make rules regarding 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, shops
and other places where any article of food is manufactured or
prepared or kept;
(b) the taking and examination of samples of milk, dairy produce,
meat or other articles of food and the removal or detention,
pending examination or inquiry, of animals or articles which are
suspected of being diseased or unsound or unwholesome or unfit
for human consumption, and the seizure and destruction or
treatment or disposal so as not to endanger health, of any such
article which is found to be unwholesome or unsound or diseased
or infected or contaminated, and of diseased animals sold or
intended or offered or exposed for sale for human consumption;
the rules may empower a medical officer of health, or, in the case
of meat, a veterinary officer, to detain, seize or destroy any
diseased, unsound or unwholesome article of food, but shall not
confer on any other person any power beyond that of detenton of
the article for the purpose of examination by a medical officer of
health or, in the case of meat, a veterinary officer;
(c) fixing standards of milk contents and cleanliness of milk and
prescribing the warning to be given to any cowkeeper,
dairyperson or purveyor of milk that any milk sold by him or her
has been found to be below any such standard, and the issue of
orders prohibiting the sale or keeping or exposure for sale of milk
from any particular animal or animals, or requiring the closing of
any dairy, stock shed or yard or milkshop, the milk from which
is found, after analysis and official warning, to be below any such
standard;
(d) the conveyance and distribution of milk and the labelling or
marking of receptacles used for the conveyance of milk;
(e) the veterinary inspection of dairy stock, the sampling and
bacteriological examination of milk and dairy produce and the
prevention of the sale, or the keeping, transmission or exposure
for sale of milk from a diseased or infected animal;
(f) the duties of cowkeepers, dairypersons and purveyors of milk in
connection with the occurrence of infectious disease among
persons residing or employed in or about their premises and the
furnishing by them of the names and addresses of their
customers, and of cowkeepers in connection with reporting the
occurrence, in animals on the premises or any dairy cattle, of
diseases which are communicable to man and of any disease of
the udder;
(g) the inspection and examination of, and the regulation, inspection
and supervision of, the manufacture, preparation, storage,
keeping and transmission of any article of food intended for sale
or for export from Uganda and the prohibition of the
manufacture, preparation, storage, keeping, transmission, sale or
export from Uganda of any such article which is, or contains, an
ingredient which is diseased or unsound or unfit for human
consumption, or which has been exposed to any infection or
contamination;
(h) the establishment, locality, supervision, equipment, maintenance
and management of slaughterhouses and places in which animals
awaiting slaughter are kept and the disposal of the waste products
of slaughtering and the inspection of slaughterhouses and the
animals in them, and prohibiting, restricting or regulating the
slaughtering of animals;
(i) prohibiting the importation into Uganda of any article of food
which is not clean, wholesome, sound and free from any disease,
infection or contamination, and the seizure and disposal by
destruction or otherwise of any such article so imported;
(j) the preparation, manufacture or importation and the storage and
sale of or trade in articles of food which are packed in airtight
receptacles or are otherwise preserved, and the marking of any
such article or receptacle with the date of manufacture or
preparation;
(k) prohibiting the importation, sale, possession or use of vessels
which are intended to contain milk or any liquid or semisolid
article of food and which are rusty or defectively soldered or are
made of material containing in any part likely to come in contact
with the contents, lead or other poisonous or injurious substance
in such proportion as to be likely to cause injury or danger to
health, and fixing the maximum proportions of the substances
which may be used in such vessels;
(l) the licensing, regulation and inspection of hotels, restaurants,
cafés, and eating houses;
(m) the regulation of the preparation and sale of food by hawkers;
(n) the licensing, regulation and inspection of aerated water factories
and ice manufacture;
(o) the licensing, regulation and inspection of the premises of
fishmongers;
(p) the licensing, regulation and inspection of the premises of
hairdressers;
(q) the licensing, regulation and inspection of the premises of
butchers and retailers of meat;
(r) the licensing, regulation and inspection of bakehouses and
bakeries;
(s) the licensing, regulation and inspection of laundries and
washhouses;
(t) the regulation, inspection, and control of cemeteries and
crematoria;
(u) the disposal and burial of corpses;
(v) the fixing of fees and the prescribing of forms in regard to any
matters prescribed.
105. Medical officer of health's powers to make orders for protection of
public health.
Any medical officer of health, if he or she reasonably considers the action
necessary for the protection of the public health, may—
(a) require 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 is or has been engaged in the collection, preparation,
keeping, conveyance or distribution of any such milk or produce
or article;
(b) prohibit the employment by any cowkeeper, dairyperson or
purveyor of milk or other person in connection with the
collection, preparation, storage, distribution or sale of milk or
dairy produce or any article of food of any person who has been
proved to be a carrier of the infection of typhoid or enteric fever
or other infectious disease, while so infected.
106. Minister may make orders.
The Minister may make statutory orders—
(a) requiring the closing of any stock shed or yard, dairy or milk
shop, or the exclusion from any stock shed or dairy premises of
any animal, the milk from which is believed to have conveyed or
to be liable to convey any infectious disease;
(b) prohibiting the sale or exposure for sale of milk by any
cowkeeper, dairyperson or purveyor of milk who has been three
times convicted of offences under any laws or rules regarding the
milk trade.
PART XIV—CEMETERIES.
107. Cemeteries to be appointed.
The Minister may select and appoint by statutory instrument sufficient and
proper places to be the sites of and to be used as cemeteries or crematoria for
municipalities and towns; and it shall be an offence, where such cemeteries
or crematoria exist, to bury or burn the dead elsewhere within the
municipality or town.
108. Authorised cemeteries.
All cemeteries now being used as such and such other cemeteries as may be
authorised by the Minister shall be deemed authorised cemeteries.
109. Permit to exhume.
(1) Subject to this Act, it shall not be lawful to exhume any body or
the remains of any body which may have been interred in any authorised
cemetery or in any other cemetery, burial ground or other place without a
permit granted in the following manner—
(a) the permit shall be granted only to the legal personal
representative or next of kin of the person buried, or to his or her
or their duly authorised agent;
(b) the permit may be granted by the district commissioner in respect
of any body or the remains of any body interred in any cemetery
or burial ground or any other place.
(2) The permitting authority may prescribe such precautions as he or
she may deem fit as the condition of the grant of the permit, and any person
who exhumes any body or the remains of any body contrary to this Act, or
who neglects to observe the precautions prescribed as the condition of the
permit, is liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand shillings.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the right of a
magistrate to order the exhumation of a body or the remains of any body for
the purpose of holding an inquiry into the cause of death of any person.
110. Exhumation needed for execution of public works may be ordered.
(1) The Minister may, whenever he or she deems it expedient for the
execution of any public work or any public purpose, order removal of any
body or the remains of any body from any grave whether in an authorised
cemetery or elsewhere, and by order under his or her hand direct the removal
to be made in such manner as the Minister shall think fit.
(2) No such order shall be made in respect of any grave situated in an
authorised cemetery until two months' notice of the intention to make it shall
have been given by notification in the Gazette.
(3) Copies of the notice under subsection (2) shall be posted at or
near the grave, and copies shall be sent by post in a registered letter to the
legal personal representative or next of kin of the person buried, if his or her
or their address can be ascertained.
(4) The copies sent under subsection (3) shall be accompanied by a
translation in the language of the race to which the deceased person
belonged.
(5) When an order is made under subsection (1) directing a removal
from any grave elsewhere than in an authorised cemetery, due notice of the
order shall, so far as it is possible to do so, be given to the legal
representative or next of kin of the person buried before the work of removal
is undertaken and to the local authority of the area in which the grave is
situated.
(6) The Minister shall cause proper and fitting arrangements to be
made for the reinterment of any body or remains of any body removed under
this section, and for the removal and reerection of any monument, all charges
in connection therewith being defrayed out of the public revenue.
111. Record of permit for exhumation.
(1) There shall be kept at the office of the Registrar General of births,
deaths and marriages a record of every permit granted and of every order
made under sections 109 and 110 other than an order made by a magistrate.
(2) The record required by subsection (1) shall contain particulars, so
far as the same can be ascertained, of the race, nationality, name, sex and age
of the persons buried, date of burial and of the place of original burial and
reburial or removal, and shall be open during office hours to inspection by
any person.
112. Closing of cemeteries by Minister.
(1) The Minister may by statutory instrument declare that any
authorised crematorium or cemetery shall, from a time to be specified in the
notification, be closed, and the crematorium or cemetery shall be closed
accordingly; and any person who after the specified time shall burn or bury
any body or the remains of any body in that crematorium or cemetery
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one
thousand five hundred shillings.
113. Cremations in places where no crematorium provided.
In places where no crematorium is provided, it shall be permissible for
cremations to be carried out at such places and under such conditions as are
laid down by the local authority with the concurrence of the medical officer
of health.
PART XV—GENERAL.
114. Basements not to be occupied without permission.
(1) It shall not be lawful without the written permission of the local
authority on the advice of the medical officer of health to live in, occupy or
use or to let or sublet, or to suffer or permit to be used any basement for
habitation, nor to use such basement as a shop, office, workshop, or factory
or for the preparation or storage of food, and no basement shall be used
unless it is well lit and ventilated and is free from damp and is rendered
ratproof to the satisfaction of a medical officer of health.
(2) It shall not be lawful to live in, occupy or use, or to let or sublet,
or to suffer or permit to be used for habitation any cellar, nor to use such
cellar as a shop, office, workshop or factory or for the preparation of food.
115. Lodging houses.
The Minister may make rules for the conduct and inspection of lodging
houses.
116. Nursing homes.
(1) No person shall open or keep open a nursing home, maternity
home, convalescent home, private hospital, infirmary or any institution where
invalids or convalescents are treated or received upon payment of fees or
charges unless its premises are approved by the chief medical officer and a
permit has been obtained from him or her.
(2) Permits granted shall be in accordance with any conditions laid
down by the chief medical officer, and shall be liable to cancellation by him
or her on violation or nonfulfillment of any of the conditions laid down.
(3) The chief medical officer may authorise a medical practitioner on
his or her behalf to visit any such premises as mentioned in this section and
to report to the chief medical officer upon any matter or thing connected with
the premises or the use of the premises.
(4) Any person who knowingly obstructs an authorised medical
practitioner in any such inspection as is authorised by the chief medical
officer commits an offence.
117. Maternity and child welfare.
The Minister may make rules for the proper control of clinics or institutions
open or kept open by any person for the welfare and care of children or the
care of expectant or nursing mothers.
118. Provision of medical attention, etc. by employers for their staff.
The Minister may make rules for the provision of hospital accommodation
and medical attention, specifying the medicines, equipment and other
requirements necessary, to be provided by employers of nondomestic labour
for the proper care of all labourers employed by them.
119. Regulation of public washermen.
Any local authority may by public notice prohibit the washing of clothes by
washermen in the exercise of their calling except at public wash houses or at
such other places as may be appointed for the purpose.
120. Control of irrigated land.
(1) Where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister that the
growing of any crop or the irrigation of any land being within the boundaries
of a municipality or town or within three miles of the boundaries is
unhealthful or unsanitary, the Minister may, by statutory instrument, prohibit
the growing of any crop or the irrigation of any land within any area within
the boundaries of a municipality or town or within three miles of the
boundaries, and may cause any permit or authorisation issued for the
diversion, abstraction or use of water for such purpose to be cancelled upon
such terms as may appear to the Minister to be equitable.
(2) The Minister may make rules for ensuring that the health of the
inhabitants of a district may be safeguarded in respect of—
(a) the prevention of pools of standing water;
(b) the drainage and control of such pools when they exist;
(c) the inspection, repair and cleansing of open channels, canals and
drains.
121. Supervision of importation or manufacture of vaccines, etc.
(1) The Minister may provide for the inspection, sampling and
examination by officers of the Ministry of Health of vaccines, vaccine
lymphs, sera and similar substances imported into or manufactured in
Uganda and intended to be used for the prevention or treatment of human
diseases, and may prohibit the importation, manufacture or use of any such
substance which is considered to be unsafe or to be liable to be harmful or
deleterious.
(2) The Minister may make such rules as he or she may consider
necessary for properly carrying out the provisions of this section.
PART XVI—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
122. Authentication of notices, etc.
(1) Any notice, order, consent, demand, complaint or other document
which is required or authorised by or under this Act may be signed or
authenticated in the case of a local authority by—
(a) the secretary or executive officer;
(b) the surveyor, engineer, medical officer of health, health inspector
or financial officer of or acting on behalf of the authority as
respects documents relating to matters within their respective
provinces;
(c) any other officer authorised by the authority in writing to sign
documents of the particular kind or the particular document as the
case may be.
(2) The Minister may by rule prescribe the form of any notice, order,
consent, demand or other document to be used for any of the purposes of this
Act, and if forms are so prescribed those forms or forms to a like effect may
be used in all cases to which those forms are applicable.
123. Service of notices, etc.
Any notice, court summons, order or other document required or authorised
to be served or issued under this Act may be served by delivering it at the
residence of the person to whom it is addressed, or, where it is addressed to
the owner or occupier of premises, by delivering it, or a true copy of it, to
some person on the premises, or, if there is no person on the premises who
can be served, by fixing it on some conspicuous part of the premises; it may
also be served by post in a registered letter, and if so served shall prima facie
be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing it
would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, and in proving that service
it shall be sufficient to prove that the notice, court summons, order or other
document was properly addressed and put in the post.
124. Powers and duties of the officers of the Ministry of Health.
The deputy chief medical officer may, with the authority and on behalf of the
chief medical officer, discharge any of the duties or functions of the chief
medical officer, and any duties imposed or powers conferred by this Act on
medical officers of health or health inspectors may be carried out or
exercised by the chief medical officer, deputy chief medical officer or any
officer designated by the chief medical officer for that purpose.
125. Defect in form not to invalidate notices, etc.
No defect in the form of any notice or order made under this Act shall
invalidate or render unlawful any administrative action taken or be a ground
for exception to any legal proceedings which may be taken in the matter to
which the notice or order relates, provided the requirements thereof are
substantially and intelligibly set forth.
126. Powers of entry and inspection of premises and penalties for
obstruction.
(1) Any health inspector, medical officer of health, administrative
officer or police officer, or any person generally or specially authorised in
writing by the chief medical officer, medical officer of health or local
authority may, at any hour reasonable for the proper performance of the duty,
enter any land or premises to make any inspection or to perform any work or
to do anything which is required or authorised by this Act, if the inspection,
work or thing is necessary for or incidental to the performance of his or her
duties or the exercise of his or her powers.
(2) Any person who fails to give or refuses access to any officer,
inspector or person mentioned in or authorised under subsection (1), if he or
she requests entrance on any land or premises, or obstructs or hinders him or
her in the execution of his or her duties under this Act, or fails or refuses to
give information that he or she may lawfully be required to give to that
officer, inspector or person, or gives to that officer, inspector or person false
or misleading information knowing it to be false or misleading, or prevents
the owner or any of his or her servants or workers from entering any land or
dwelling or premises for the purpose of complying with any requirement
under this Act, commits an offence.
127. Appeals against, and the enforcement of, notices requiring
execution of works.
(1) The following provisions of this section shall, subject to any
express modifications specified in the section under which the notice is
given, apply with respect to appeals against, and the enforcement of, notices
requiring the execution of works under this Act.
(2) Any such notice shall indicate the nature of the works to be
executed, and state the time within which they are to be executed.
(3) A person served with such a notice as aforesaid may appeal in the
manner provided in this section on any of the following grounds which are
appropriate in the circumstances of the particular case—
(a) that the notice or requirement is not justified by the terms of the
law under which it purports to have been given or made;
(b) that there has been some defect or error in, or in connection with,
the notice;
(c) that the works required by the notice to be executed are
unreasonable in character or extent;
(d) that the time within which the works are to be executed is not
reasonably sufficient for the purpose;
(e) that the notice might lawfully have been served on the occupier
of the premises in question instead of on the owner, or on the
owner instead of on the occupier, and that it would have been
equitable for it to have been so served.
(4) If and insofar as an appeal under this section is based on the
ground of some informality, defect or error in or in connection with the
notice, the appeal shall be dismissed, if it is shown that the informality,
defect or error was not a material one.
(5) Where the grounds upon which an appeal under this section is
brought include a ground specified in subsection (3)(e), the appellant shall
serve a copy of his or her notice of appeal on each other person referred to,
and in the case of any appeal under this section may serve a copy of his or
her notice of appeal on any other person having an estate or interest in the
premises in question; and on the hearing of the appeal an order may be made
with respect to the person by whom any work is to be executed or as to the
proportions in which any expenses which may become recoverable by the
authority are to be borne by the appellant and such other person.
(6) In the exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (5), regard
shall be had as between an owner and an occupier, to the terms and
conditions, whether contractual or statutory, of the tenancy and to the nature
of the works required.
(7) Any appeal under this section shall be preferred in the cases of
notices issued by a local authority to a court over which presides a chief
magistrate or a magistrate grade I exercising jurisdiction in the place where
the premises are situated, in pursuance of any rules made in that behalf by the
Chief Justice with the prior approval of the Minister.
(8) The time within which any such appeal may be brought shall be
twenty-one days from the date on which notice requiring the works was
served upon the person desiring to appeal.
128. Execution of works.
(1) Subject to a right of appeal, if the person required by the notice
to execute works fails to execute the works indicated within the time limited
by the notice, the local authority may itself execute the works and recover
from that person the expenses reasonably incurred by it in so doing and,
without prejudice to its right to exercise that power, he or she commits an
offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred
shillings, and to a further fine not exceeding forty shillings for each day on
which the default continues after the conviction.
(2) In proceedings by a local authority against the person served with
the notice for the recovery of any expenses which the authority is entitled to
recover from him or her, it shall not be open to that person to raise any
question which he or she could have raised on an appeal against the notice.
129. Certain expenses recoverable from owners to be a charge on the
premises; power to accept payment by installments.
(1) Where a local authority has incurred expenses for the repayment
of which the owner of the premises in respect of which the expenses were
incurred is liable under this Act or by agreement with the authority, those
expenses, together with interest from the date of service of a demand for the
expenses, may be recovered by the authority from the person who is the
owner of the premises at the date when the works are completed, or, if that
person has ceased to be the owner of the premises before the date when a
demand for the expenses is served, either from that person or from the person
who is the owner at the date when the demand is served; and, as from the
date of the completion of the works, the expenses and interest accrued due
on the works shall, until recovered, be a charge on the premises and on all
estates and interests in the premises.
(2) The charge created by subsection (1) shall be deemed to extend
to any expenses lawfully paid to the registrar of titles in connection with the
registration or withdrawal of the charge in pursuance of the other provisions
of this section.
(3) The charge created by subsection (1) shall be in favour of the
local authority if the authority is a body corporate entitled to hold land, and
in all other cases the charge shall be in favour of the Government; and the
local authority or the Government shall have all the powers and remedies
conferred on mortgagees by the Registration of Titles Act and any other law
for the time being in force.
(4) The local authority shall, prior to the commencement of any work
the cost of which will constitute a charge on the land on or in respect of
which the work is done, serve on the registrar of titles a notice stating that the
work is about to be commenced and specifying the property that will be the
subject of such charge, and thereupon the registrar shall enter the notice in
the appropriate volume and folio of the register book (hereafter referred to
as "the register").
(5) On the completion of that work the local authority shall serve on
the registrar of titles a further notice specifying the amount in respect of
which the land by virtue of subsection (1) stands charged, and thereupon the
registrar of titles shall protect the interest of the local authority or of the
Government, as the case may be, on the register in such manner as shall
appear to him or her appropriate.
(6) A notice or entry on the register under subsection (4) or (5) shall
be deemed to constitute actual notice to all persons that a charge against the
land comprised in the volume and folio of the register in which the notice or
entry appears is pending or existent, but the charge shall be void as against
a bona fide purchaser for money or monies worth of a legal estate in the land
unless the notice referred to in subsection (4) has been served on the registrar
of titles before the date of lodgment with him or her of the instrument of
transfer executed in pursuance of the purchase.
(7) In making any entry on the register under subsection (5), the
registrar of titles shall accept as conclusive the statement in writing relating
to the charge of any duly constituted officer of any such local authority.
(8) Any person having any registered estate in land in respect of
which any such notice or entry appears on the register or any interest
protected by the entry of a caveat may summon the local authority or the
Government, as the case may be, to appear before the High Court and show
cause why the notice or entry should not be removed from the register, and
the court may make such order in the premises either ex parte or otherwise
and as to costs as to it seems fit.
(9) A local authority may, subject to approval of the Secretary to the
Treasury or some other officer whom the Minister may charge with the duty,
agree that any expenses recoverable by the authority under this section shall
be payable with interest by installments within such period as it thinks fit,
until the whole amount is paid.
(10) Any such installments and interest referred to in subsection (9),
or any part of them, may be recovered from the owner or occupier for the
time being of the premises in respect of which the expenses were incurred,
and, if recovered from the occupier, may be deducted by him or her from the
rent of the premises; except that an occupier shall not be required to pay at
any one time any sum in excess of the amount which was due from him or
her on account of rent at, or has become due from him or her on account of
rent since, the date on which he or she received a demand from the authority
together with a notice requiring him or her not to pay rent to his or her
landlord without deducting the sum so demanded.
(11) The rate of interest chargeable under subsection (1), (9) or (10)
shall be such rate as the Minister may determine.
(12) Every local authority shall keep at its offices a register of all
expenses incurred and advances made under this section, and shall show in
the register the total amounts of the expenses and advancements, the
installments in which they are payable, the land or premises in respect of
which they have been incurred or made, and the balances for the time being
outstanding, and shall keep the register open at all reasonable times to the
inspection of any person, free of charge.
(13) The register and any extract from it, certified by any other person
authorised by the local authority in that behalf, shall, in any proceedings for
the recovery of the expenses, advances or interest thereon or any installments
thereof, be prima facie evidence of the matters contained in it.
130. Power to make a charge in respect of establishment expenses.
Where under this Act a local authority is empowered to execute works and
to recover from any person the expenses incurred by it in so doing, it may
include in, and recover as part of, the expenses an additional sum to cover
customs duties and other charges and departmental expenses on such scale
or in such manner as may be prescribed or as the Minister may direct.
131. Recovery of expenses, etc.
(1) Any sum which a local authority is entitled to recover under this
Act and with respect to the recovery of which no other provision is made
may be recovered either summarily as a civil debt, or as a simple contract
debt, in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(2) The time within which summary proceedings may be taken for the
recovery of any such sums shall, except where otherwise expressly provided,
be reckoned from the date of the service of a demand for the recovery of the
sums.
132. Protection of local authorities and their officers from personal
liability.
No matter or thing done and no contract entered into by any local authority,
and no matter or thing done by any member of any local authority or by any
officer of or acting on behalf of the local authority or by any other person
acting under the direction of the local authority, shall, if the matter or thing
were done or the contract entered into bona fide for the purpose of executing
this Act, subject that member, officer or person personally to any action,
liability, claim or demand.
133. Penalties where not expressly provided.
Any person who commits an offence against or contravention of, or default
in complying with, any provision of this Act or any rules made under it, is
liable on conviction, if no penalty is expressly provided for the offence,
contravention or default, to a fine not exceeding two thousand shillings, and,
if the offence, contravention or default is of a continuing nature, to a further
fine not exceeding sixty shillings for each day during which the default
continues.
134. Liability of secretary or manager of company.
Where a contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or any rules made
under it is committed by any company or corporation, the secretary or
manager of the company or corporation may be summoned and may be held
liable for the contravention and its consequences.
135. Proceedings against several persons.
Where proceedings under this Act are competent against several persons in
respect of the joint act or default of those persons, it shall be sufficient to
proceed against one or more of them without proceeding against the others.
136. Prosecutions.
(1) A local authority may, by any of its officers, or by any person
generally or specially authorised in writing by the local authority or an
administrative officer, prosecute for any contravention of, offence against,
or default in complying with, any provision of this Act or any rules made or
deemed to be made under it, if the contravention, offence or default is alleged
to have been committed within or to affect its district.
(2) Where an officer or person authorised by a local authority has
under subsection (1) prosecuted any person for any contravention of, offence
against or default in complying with any provision of this Act, or any rules
made or deemed to be made under it and the accused has been convicted of
a contravention, offence or default, all fines and penalties imposed may be
recovered by the officer or person authorised by a local authority as a civil
judgment debt.
137. Power of local authority outside its district.
Nothing in any written law specially governing any local authority shall be
construed as preventing the local authority from exercising any power or
performing any duty under this Act by reason only that in exercising the
power or performing the duty it must do some act or thing or incur
expenditure outside its district.
138. General power of Minister to make rules.
The Minister may make rules generally for carrying out the purposes of this
Act.
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SCHEDULES
First Schedule.
s. 40.
Certificate of Unfitness for Vaccination.
I, the undersigned, ce r t i fy that in my opinion
__________________________ is not now in a fit and proper state to be
vaccinated, and I recommend that the vaccination be postponed for six
months from this date.
_________________________________
Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator
Dated this ______ day of ______________, 20 ____.
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Second Schedule.
s. 41.
Certificate of insusceptibility to vaccination.
I, the undersigned, certify that I have three times unsuccessfully vaccinated
________________________________________________________ (or
that __________________________________________________ has
already had smallpox, as the case may be), and I am of opinion that
____________________________ is insusceptible of successful vaccination.
_________________________________
Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator
Dated this ______ day of _______________, 20 ____.
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Third Schedule.
s. 42.
Certificate of Vaccination.
I, the undersigned, certify that ____________________________________
has been successfully vaccinated by me.
_________________________________
Medical Practitioner or Public Vaccinator
Dated this ______ day of _______________, 20 ____.
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History: Cap. 269; Act 13/1970, s. 241.
Cross References
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, Cap. 4.
Commissions of Inquiry Act, Cap. 166.
Factories Act, Cap. 220.
Local Governments Act, Cap. 243.
Petroleum Act, Cap. 149.
Registration of Titles Act, Cap. 230.
Water Act, Cap. 152.
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