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