Environmental Public Health Bill
Table of Contents
Long Title
Enacting Formula
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 officers and other employees
Part III PUBLIC CLEANSING
Cleaning of Streets
5 Commissioner to cause public streets to be cleansed
6 Duty of owner and occupier to keep clean private streets, etc., abutting on their premises
7 Dustbins in streets
Removal of Refuse and Nightsoil
8 Commissioner may apply systems for collection and removal of refuse, etc.
9 Removal of trade refuse, industrial waste, etc.
10 Commissioner may require owner and occupier to provide dustbins and refuse bin, etc.
11 Maintenance of refuse chutes in buildings
12 Occupier of house to remove refuse
13 Prohibition against unauthorised collection of nightsoil
14 Prohibition on use of nightsoil as manure
15 Prohibition on use of nightsoil for manuring earth in pots, etc.
16 Prohibition of cultivation or use of manure or irrigation which is a nuisance
17 All refuse, etc., collected to be property of Government
Offences in respect of Uncleanliness in Public Places
18 Prohibition against throwing refuse, etc., in any public place
19 Building works constituting danger to life, health, etc.
20 Prohibition against dumping refuse, etc., in any public place
21 Notice to attend Court
Disposal facilities
22 Provision of public disposal facilities
23 No disposal facility to be constructed without permission
Disposal and Treatment of Industrial Waste
24 Prohibition against disposal of waste in unauthorised places
25 Proper storage of waste
26 Notice requiring periodic removal of waste from premises
27 Furnishing of information on industrial waste
28 Waste brought to public disposal facility to be treated or recycled
29 Toxic waste not to be brought to public disposal facility without permission
30 Excessive production of toxic waste
31 Licensing of persons carrying on business of collection of refuse
Part IV FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS, MARKETS AND HAWKERS
32 Food establishments to be licensed
33 Licensing of hawkers operating from stalls, etc.
34 Licensing of itinerant hawkers
35 Commissioner may issue temporary permits
36 Licences for private markets
37 Persons with infectious diseases not to carry on business
38 Unauthorised structures
39 Cleanliness of markets and stalls
40 Articles of food unfit for human consumption
41 Cleanliness of vehicles and equipment, etc.
42 Notice to attend Court
Part V PUBLIC NUISANCES
43 Public nuisances to be abated
44 Nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily
45 Nuisance order
46 Execution of order for demolition
Part VI NOISE CONTROL
47 Control of noise on construction sites
48 Noise control notices; work premises
49 Notice to have regard to certain provisions
Part VII INSANITARY PREMISES, SANITARY CONVENIENCES, GENERAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDINGS
Insanitary Premises
50 Premises in unwholesome state
51 Destruction of rats, wasps, bees, etc.
52 Closing and demolition, etc., of insanitary dwellings
53 Overcrowding of houses
Sanitary Conveniences, Drains, Sewers and Wells
54 Public toilets
55 Insufficient and defective sanitary conveniences
56 Repairs
57 Sanitary conveniences in work premises
58 Care of sanitary conveniences
59 Inadequate bathroom facilities
60 Construction and maintenance of private drains
61 Drains, etc., to be kept in order at cost of owners
62 Restriction on construction of wells
General Health Requirements For Buildings
63 Buildings to which the public has access to be kept clean
64 Commissioner may require employers to provide mess rooms, etc.
Part VIII OFFENSIVE TRADES
65 Offensive trades not to be carried on without licence
66 Power to enter into and search premises used for offensive trades
67 Prohibition of offensive trades in particular areas
68 Penalty
Part IX SWIMMING POOLS
69 Licensing of swimming pools
70 Closure of swimming pools
71 Penalty
72 Application to Government swimming pools
Part X FUNERAL PARLOURS, CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA
73 Licensing of funeral parlours, cemeteries and crematoria
74 Corpse of person dying of infectious diseases
75 Corpse not to be retained beyond 48 hours unless encoffined
76 Decomposed corpse
77 Government may provide cemeteries and crematoria
78 Places which may be used for burials, etc.
79 Unlawful burials
80 Power to close cemeteries, etc.
81 Unauthorised structure
82 Exhumation
83 Penalty
Part XI CONTROL OF PURITY OF WATER SUPPLIES
84 Water intended for human consumption
85 Polluted or unwholesome water
86 Regulations
Part XII MISCELLANEOUS
87 Power to enter upon lands for the purposes of this Act
88 Protection from personal liability
89 Penalty for obstruction
90 Commissioner may act in cases of emergency
91 Damage to property of Government to be made good in addition to penalty
92 Service of summons, notice, etc.
93 Appeal to Minister against notice, order or decision
94 Default in compliance with notice
95 Compensation, damages and costs to be determined by Magistrate’s or District Court
96 Exemption of agent who has no funds in hand
97 Recovery of costs and expenses payable by owners
98 Recovery of costs and expenses by instalments
99 Liability of transferor of property in respect of costs and expenses incurred by Commissioner
100 Licences
101 Receipts and notices may be given by officer authorised thereunto
102 Authorised officers may demand names and addresses in certain cases
103 Furnishing of information required by Commissioner
104 Powers of arrest
105 Prosecution
106 Saving of prosecutions under other laws
107 Limitation of liability to fines and penalties
108 Penalty
109 Compounding of offences
110 Authorised public officers, etc., to exercise certain powers under this Act
111 Inaccuracies in documents
112 Jurisdiction of District and Magistrate’s Courts
113 Evidence
114 Regulations
115 Forms
116 Schedules
117 Exemption
118 Repeal and transitional
Explanatory Statement
Expenditure of Public Money
Table of Derivations