Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) Regulations

Cleanliness of public areas

8.—(1) No person shall sweep or cause or permit to be swept any dust, dirt, ashes, refuse, rubbish or other matter or thing onto or into any footway, back-lane, drain or road.

(2) No person shall stain or cause or permit to be stained in any manner any wall, pillar, lamp post, footway, back-lane, drain or road.

(3) Where any person occupies any domestic, business or other premises at street level and such premises abut on any footway, he shall keep that portion of the footway along the frontage of his premises clean and free of any refuse, rubbish, litter, garbage or stains.

(4) The occupier of any flat shall keep that portion of the common corridor or passageway along the frontage of his flat clean and free of any refuse, rubbish, litter, garbage or stains.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), “flat” means a horizontal stratum of any building or part thereof which is used or intended to be used as a complete and separate unit for habitation, business or other purpose.

Human waste

15.—(1) No person shall urinate or defecate in or upon any street, arcade, vacant land, river, canal, ditch, drain or watercourse or in any place to which the public has access except in any sanitary convenience provided for such purpose.

(2) No person shall cause or permit any urine or faecal matter to flow or drain into any river, canal, ditch, drain or watercourse.

(3) No person shall spit, or expel mucous from the nose, upon or onto any street or upon or onto the floor or other part of a public service vehicle, a place of public resort or any place to which the public has access.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), “public service vehicle” means any vehicle which is used for the carriage of persons for hire or reward.

(5) [Deleted by S 589/2005 wef 15/09/2005]

Person using sanitary convenience to flush it after using

16. Any person who has urinated or defecated in any sanitary convenience with a flushing system to which the public has access shall flush the sanitary convenience immediately after using it.

Public toilet

16A. Every owner or occupier of a building shall ensure that the toilets therein to which the public has access are at all times provided with adequate toilet paper, soap or liquid detergent, litter bins, and clean towels or hand dryers.

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