Environmental Public Health Act(CHAPTER 95)
Table of Contents
Long Title
Part I PRELIMINARY
1 Short title and commencement
2 Interpretation
Part II ADMINISTRATION
3 Appointment of Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners of Public Health
4 Public Health Engineers
5 Public health auxiliaries and other employees
6 Committees
Part III PUBLIC CLEANSING
7 Definition
Cleansing of streets
8 Commissioner to cause public streets to be cleansed
9 Duty of owner and occupier to keep clean private streets, etc., abutting on their premises
10 Dustbins in streets
Removal of refuse
11 Commissioner may apply systems for collection and removal of refuse
12 Removal of trade refuse, etc.
13 Removal of offensive matter
14 Place of deposit for refuse
15 Commissioner may require developer, etc., to provide dustbins and refuse bin centres
16 Maintenance of refuse chutes in buildings
17 Maintenance of disposal grounds and incinerators for refuse
18 Penalty on occupier of house for not removing the refuse
19 All rubbish, etc., collected to be property of Government
Removal of night-soil
20 A system of night-soil removal may be applied to defined areas, and fees may be charged
21 Prohibition against unauthorised collection of night-soil
22 Commissioner may require developer to provide certain services
23 Prohibition on sale of night-soil
24 Prohibition on use of night-soil as manure
25 Prohibition on use of night-soil for manuring earth in pots, etc.
26 Prohibition of cultivation or use of manure or irrigation which is a nuisance
Offences in respect of uncleanliness in public places and pollution of reservoirs, etc.
27 Prohibition against depositing refuse, etc., in any public place
28 Prohibition against depositing building materials, etc., in any public place
Part IV MARKETS
29 Definition
30 Commissioner may build markets
31 Licences for places in public markets
32 Licences for private markets
33 Penalty for unauthorised sale in markets
34 Power to expel person contravening regulations and to determine lease
35 Persons with infectious disease not to carry on business in markets
36 Unauthorised alterations
37 Cleanliness of markets and stalls
Part V HAWKERS
38 Powers of Commissioner
39 Hawking prohibited in certain places
40 Persons with infectious disease not to carry on business as food hawkers
41 Licensing of hawkers operating from stalls
42 Licensing of itinerant hawkers
43 Contravention of regulations
Part VI FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
44 Definition
45 Food establishments to be licensed
46 Stalls in food establishments to be licensed
47 Inspection and examination
48 Persons with infectious disease not to be employed in food establishments
49 Regulations
Part VII PUBLIC NUISANCES
50 Public nuisances to be abated
51 Nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act
52 Notice requiring abatement of nuisance
53 Nuisance order
54 Order for demolition of dwelling-house unfit for habitation
55 Execution of order for demolition
Part VIII INSANITARY PREMISES AND OBSTRUCTIVE BUILDINGS
Insanitary premises
56 Premises in unwholesome state
57 Power to direct owners or occupiers, inter alia, to cleanse, paint, lime-wash and colour-wash buildings
58 Costs and expenses of work executed within controlled premises recoverable by owner
59 Destruction of rats, etc.
60 Closing and demolition, etc., of insanitary dwellings
61 Overcrowding of houses
62 When house to be deemed overcrowded
Obstructive buildings
63 Representation concerning obstructive buildings
64 Order to enter
65 Remedies of owner for breach of covenant, etc., not prejudiced
66 Penalty for preventing execution of this Part
Part IX SANITARY CONVENIENCES, DRAINS, SEWERS AND WELLS
67 Definition
68 Public lavatories and latrines
69 Building Authority may consult Commissioner as to sanitary conveniences
70 Insufficient and defective sanitary conveniences
71 Repairs
72 Sanitary conveniences in work places
73 Care of sanitary conveniences
74 Power to require latrines to be constructed
75 Inadequate bathroom facilities
76 Notices and penalty for non-compliance
77 Construction and maintenance of private drains
78 Drains, etc., to be kept in order at cost of owners
79 Inspection of drains and privies
80 Restriction on construction of wells
Part X GENERAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDINGS
81 Building Authority may consult Commissioner regarding health requirements of buildings
82 Buildings to which the public has access to be kept clean
83 Commissioner may require employers to provide mess rooms, etc.
84 Control of offensive conditions
85 Penalites
Part XI OFFENSIVE TRADES
86 Offensive trades not to be carried on without licence
87 Power to enter into and search premises used for offensive trades
88 Suspension or revocation of licence
89 Prohibition of offensive trades in particular areas
Part XII SWIMMING POOLS
90 Definition
91 Licensing of swimming pools
92 Approval of Commissioner for construction, alteration, etc., of swimming pools
93 Closure of swimming pools
94 Penalty
95 Regulations
96 Application to Government swimming pools
Part XIII FUNERAL PARLOURS, CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA
Funeral parlours
97 Definition
98 Licensing of funeral parlours
99 Corpse of person who has died of infectious disease
100 Decomposed corpse
101 Penalty
102 Regulations
Cemeteries and crematoria
103 Government may provide cemeteries and crematoria
104 Places which may be used for burials, etc.
105 Unlawful burials
106 Power to close cemeteries, etc.
107 Unauthorised structures
108 Exhumation
109 Period of retention of corpse
Part XIV MISCELLANEOUS
110 Power to enter upon lands for purposes of this Act
111 Power to enter on lands adjacent to works
112 Protection from personal liability
113 Penalty for obstruction
114 Mandatory order
115 Provision as to appeal against order
116 Proceedings where owner is unknown
117 In case of urgency, order may be made ex parte
118 Damage to property of Government to be made good in addition to penalty
119 Service of notices
120 Default in compliance with notice
121 Compensation, damages and costs to be determined by Magistrate’s or District Court
122 Occupier in default of owner may execute work
123 Exemption of agent who has no funds in hand
124 Recovery of costs and expenses payable by owners
125 Recovery of costs and expenses by instalments
126 Liability of transferor of property in respect of costs and expenses incurred by Commissioner
127 Proceedings if an occupier opposes the execution of works
128 Disposal of matters and things removed by Commissioner
129 Licences
130 Receipts and notices may be given by officer authorised thereunto
131 Prosecutions
132 Police officer or public officer may demand names and addresses in certain cases
133 Powers of arrest
134 Saving of prosecutions under other laws
135 Limitation of liability to fines and penalties
136 Contravention of provisions of this Act
137 General penalties
138 Compounding of offences
139 Commissioner of Police and police officers to assist
140 Authorised public officers, etc., to exercise certain powers under this Act
141 Inaccuracies in documents
142 Evidence
143 Regulations
144 Forms
145 Schedules
146 Exemption
147 Transitional provisions
Legislative History