Public Health Act

1. "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;
2. "Authority" means the Kampala Capital City Authority;
3. "building" includes any structure whatsoever whether permanent or temporary for whatsoever purpose used;
4. "burial" means burial in the earth, interment or any other form of sepulture, or cremation or any other mode of disposal of a dead body, and "buried" has a corresponding meaning;
5. "child" means a person below the age of eighteen years;
6. "court" means a court of competent jurisdiction;
7. "currency point" has the value assigned to it in the Schedule to this Act;
8. "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;

38 further items remain in the statutory text above.

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1. 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

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1. 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

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1. (1) The Authority and every local government council 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.
2. (2) A medical officer shall immediately inform the Director General of Health Services of the outbreak of any infectious, communicable or preventable disease within the Authority or a local government, as the case may be.

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1. (1) A medical officer in the employment of the Government 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.
2. (2) The actions taken by the medical officer in subsection (1) are for safeguarding, promoting public health; and for the exercise of the powers and performance of the duties in respect of the public health conferred or imposed by this Act or by any other Act.
3. (3) Where the occurrence of, or outbreak of a disease is within the jurisdiction of a local government, the medical officer shall exercise the powers and perform the duties in subsection (1) with the authority of the Director General of Health Services.

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1. (1) If a 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 Authority or a local government to exercise the powers or perform the duties devolving upon it under this Act, the Minister, if satisfied after due inquiry that the Authority or the local government is guilty of default, may make an order directing the Authority or the local government to perform its duty in the matter of the complaint and prescribing a time for that performance.
2. (2) Where the order given under subsection (1) is not obeyed within the time prescribed, the Minister may appoint some person to carry out the order.

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1. A person appointed under section 6 to perform the duty of a defaulting municipality or town shall, in the performance and for the purpose of that duty, have all the powers of the municipality or town other than the powers of levying rates vested in the municipality or town 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

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1. (1) The Minister shall, when necessary, establish a committee known as the advisory committee of health comprising the Director General of Health Services or his or her representative as the chairperson and such other members as the Minister may deem fit to appoint.
2. (2) The tenure of the members of the advisory committee of health shall be on ad hoc basis.
3. (3) The chairperson of the committee shall appoint such person as he or she may deem fit to be the secretary to the committee.
4. (4) The Minister may vary or terminate the membership of the committee.
5. (5) The Minister may make rules for the governance of the functions of the committee.

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1. (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. (2) Where the provisions of any earlier Act are in conflict or inconsistent with this Act, the provisions of this Act shall prevail.

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1. (b) declare that only such provisions of this Act as are mentioned in the order shall apply to any notifiable disease;
2. (c) restrict the provisions of this Act, as regards the notification of any disease, to the Authority or any local government or to any area defined.

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1. (1) The Minister may in respect of the notification of disease make rules as to-
2. (a) the duties of medical practitioners called in to visit or in any manner becoming aware of any notifiable disease;
3. (b) the duties of heads of families, parents or other persons having the care of or in attendance on any sick person;
4. (c) the duties of owners or persons in charge of letting houses, the duties of owners or persons in charge of workplaces and the duties of employers;
5. (d) the duties of the person in charge of any school, institution of higher learning, orphanage or similar institution in regard to the reporting of such diseases or any other disease specified in the rules;
6. (e) the circumstances in which notification of particular diseases shall not be required;
7. (f) the forms to be used and the particulars to be furnished by medical practitioners and others when making the notifications to the Authority or a local government or medical officer;
8. (g) the forms to be used and the particulars to be furnished by the Authority or a local government or medical officer when transmitting returns and reports to the Chief Medical Officer;

3 further items remain in the statutory text above.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. This Part shall apply to any disease which the Minister may, by statutory order, declare to be an infectious disease for the purposes of this Part

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1. A medical officer or a person authorised by the medical officer 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 post-mortem examination to be made on any corpse for the purpose of ascertaining if the cause of death has been any infectious disease

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1. (1) Where any medical officer or a person authorised by the medical officer is of opinion that the decontaminating 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 decontaminate the building or part of the building and the articles, within a time specified in the notice.
2. (2) Where 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 five currency points for every day during which the person continues to make default; and the Authority or local government council may cause the building or part of the building and the articles to be decontaminated, and may recover the expenses incurred from the owner or occupier in default as a civil debt.
3. (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 the Authority or local government council, effectually to carry out the requirements of this section, the Authority or local government council may, without enforcing the requirements on that owner or occupier, with or without the consent of the owner enter, decontaminate the building or part of the building and the articles, and defray the expenses of decontaminating.

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1. (1) Where any beddings, clothing or any other articles are contaminated with an infectious disease or are exposed to contamination from any infectious disease and in the opinion of the medical officer the beddings, clothing or articles have to be destroyed, the medical officer shall destroy the beddings, clothing or articles or cause the beddings, clothing or articles to be destroyed.
2. (2) The Authority or local government shall give reasonable compensation for articles so destroyed.
3. (3) If a person is aggrieved by the amount of compensation awarded by the Authority or a local government, that person shall have the right, and the Authority or a local government shall agree, to a submission of the matter to arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act.

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1. When any article is damaged during decontamination no compensation shall be payable if suitable methods of decontamination have been employed and due care and all reasonable precautions have been taken to prevent unnecessary or avoidable damage

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1. 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 decontamination if no undue delay has occurred

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1. The Authority or a local government council shall provide a proper place, with all necessary apparatus and attendance, for the decontamination of bedding, clothing or other articles which have become contaminated, and shall cause any articles brought for decontamination to be dealt with free of charge

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1. The Authority or a local government council shall provide and maintain conveyances for the carriage of persons suffering from any infectious disease or for the removal of any contaminated bedding, clothing or other articles and shall pay the expenses of carriage in such conveyance of any person so suffering to a health facility or other place of quarantine

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1. (b) to be confined in that health facility or place until the medical officer or medical practitioner, as the case may be, is satisfied that the person is free from infection or that the person may be discharged without being a danger to the public.

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1. (1) Any person who-
2. (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;
3. (b) being in charge of any person so suffering, so exposes the sufferer; or
4. (c) gives, lends, sells, transmits or exposes, without previous decontamination, 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 one hundred fifty currency points or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or both.
5. (2) Any person who, while knowingly suffering from any infectious 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 decontamination of the conveyance.
6. (3) 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 decontaminated.

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1. Every owner or driver of a public vehicle shall immediately provide for the decontamination of the public vehicle to the satisfaction of the medical officer or a person authorised by the medical officer, 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 five currency points, 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

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1. (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 decontaminated to the satisfaction of the medical officer or a person authorised by the medical officer as testified by a certificate signed by him or her commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding five currency points.
2. (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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

This section states a single governing proposition and does not enumerate separate elements.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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 Authority or a local government council of the death; and on receipt of the notification the Authority or a local government council shall at once transmit the information received to the nearest medical officer or a person authorised by the medical officer and make the best arrangements practicable, pending the removal of the body and the carrying out of thorough decontamination, for preventing the spread of the disease.
2. (2) It shall be an offence under 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 Authority or a local government council.
3. (3) Where any person dies of an infectious disease, it shall be an offence under 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. (4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the removal by due authority of any dead body from a health facility to a mortuary.

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1. (1) The Authority or the local government council 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-
2. (a) is retained in contravention of section 25 in a room in which any person lives, sleeps or works, or in which food is kept or prepared or eaten; or
3. (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.
4. (2) Any person who obstructs the execution of any order or direction given under this section commits an offence.

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1. The Authority or a local government shall be responsible for the removal and burial of bodies of destitute persons and of unclaimed bodies

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (1) 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-
2. (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;
3. (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;
4. (c) the establishment, maintenance, management and inspection of isolation health facilities, 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;
5. (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 health facility 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;
6. (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 heads of families, owners or persons in charge of work places and employers;
7. (f) the measures to be taken for the prevention of the spread or eradication of any infectious disease requiring to be dealt with in a special manner;
8. (g) the conveyance of persons suffering from, or bodies of persons who have died of, an infectious disease;

15 further items remain in the statutory text above.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. The Government shall be responsible for the control and management of epidemics except where the Government delegates the control and management to the Authority or local government or where the Authority or local government requests and is allowed to control and manage an epidemic

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1. The provisions of this Part shall apply to any disease which the Minister may by statutory order declare to be an epidemic disease for purposes of this Part

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1. (1) Whenever any part of Uganda appears to be threatened by any disease declared an epidemic disease under section 30, the Minister may by statutory order declare that part an infected area and may make rules for all or any of the following purposes-
2. (a) for the speedy interment of the dead;
3. (b) for house to house visitation;
4. (c) for the provision of medical aid and accommodation, for the promotion ofcleansing, ventilation and decontamination and for guarding against the spread of disease;
5. (d) for preventing any person from leaving any infected area without undergoing all or any of the following: medical examination, decontamination, inoculation, vaccination or revaccination or passing a specified period in quarantine centre;
6. (e) for the formation of health facilities and quarantine centres, and for placing in them persons who are suffering from or have been in contact with persons suffering from infectious disease;
7. (f) for the destruction or decontamination 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;
8. (g) for the removal of persons who are suffering from an infectious disease and persons who have been in contact with such persons;

12 further items remain in the statutory text above.

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1. The Minister may request the Authority or a local government council, as may be applicable, to execute the rules made under this Part or to aid in the execution of the rules or to do and provide all such acts, matters and things as may be necessary for mitigating an infectious disease

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1. For the purposes of section 32, the Authority or a local government council or any person duly authorised by the Authority or a local government council 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

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1. (1) A person who becomes aware of any unusual sickness or mortality among any animals which are susceptible to any of the diseases notified under this Act, shall immediately report the fact to the Authority or to a local government council, as the case may be, or to any person duly authorised by the Authority or a local government council.
2. (2) A person who fails or neglects to report commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred currency points or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or both.

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1. The Authority and a local government council shall immediately report to the Director General of Health Services, particulars of every notification received by the Authority or local government council of every case or suspected case of any epidemic disease, or of any unusual sickness or mortality in animals made under section

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1. (1) For the purpose of preventing the introduction of infectious disease into Uganda, the Minister may by statutory order-
2. (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;
3. (b) regulate, restrict or prohibit the introduction into Uganda or any specified part of Uganda of any animal, article or thing and regulate the inspection, isolation, quarantine and decontamination of any animal, article or thing;
4. (c) impose requirements or conditions as regards the medical # examination, detention, quarantine, decontamination, vaccination, isolation or medical surveillance or otherwise of persons entering, or the examination, detention or decontamination or otherwise of such persons as aforesaid or of articles or things introduced into Uganda or any part of Uganda.
5. (2) A person who contravenes any statutory order made under this section commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred fifty currency points or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both.
6. (3) Where the offence is committed by a body corporate, the body corporate shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred currency points.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. For the purposes of this Part "vaccinator" means the medical officer, and a medical practitioner and includes a person assigned by the Director General of Health Services or a medical officer, to be a vaccinator.

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1. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a parent of a child who is resident in Uganda, shall have the child vaccinated against any disease declared to be an immunisable disease by the Minister, by statutory instrument and the vaccination under this section shall be conducted at no cost.
2. (2) Where the vaccinator is of the opinion that a child is not in a fit state to be vaccinated, the vaccinator shall issue in respect of that child, a certificate to that effect and indicate, where applicable, the date at which the child is to be vaccinated.
3. (3) A vaccinator shall, immediately after the vaccination of the child mentioned in subsection (1), issue to the parent of the child, a vaccination card in the prescribed form which form shall be presented by the parent each time the child is due for vaccination.
4. (4) The vaccination card issued under subsection (3) shall be signed by the vaccinator every time the child is vaccinated.
5. (5) A parent of a child to whom a vaccination card has been issued shall keep it for at least fifteen years.

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1. Where a vaccinator is of the opinion that any adult is not in a fit state to be vaccinated or revaccinated, the vaccinator shall issue in respect of that adult, a certificate stating that that adult is not fit for vaccination or revaccination and where applicable, the date at which the adult is to be vaccinated or revaccinated

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1. Every vaccinator or medical practitioner who has vaccinated any adult or child, shall deliver to that adult or to the parent or guardian of that child a certificate in the prescribed form, certifying that the adult or child has been successfully vaccinated

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1. Every superintendent or person in charge of a leper asylum, mental health facility, chronic sick health facility, 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.

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1. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a head teacher or any other person responsible for admission of a child to a-
2. (a) daycare centre;
3. (b) pre-primary school; or
4. (c) primary school, shall not admit a child unless a vaccination card certifying that the required vaccinations were given to the child is produced to him or her by the parent or guardian of that child.
5. (2) Where a parent of a child produces a certificate signed by a vaccinator certifying that vaccination against any of the immunisable diseases is not advisable on medical grounds, a vaccination card shall be produced by the parent showing that the child has undergone vaccination with respect to other immunisable diseases.
6. (3) A person responsible for admission of a child under subsection (1) shall keep a copy of a vaccination card of every child who is admitted to daycare centre, pre-primary or primary education.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

This section states a single governing proposition and does not enumerate separate elements.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) the Minister shall within seventy-two hours of making the request in paragraph (a), notify the Authority or local government under whose jurisdiction the request has been made.

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1. (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, the Authority or the local government councils, persons in charge of schools, employers of labour, chiefs, headmen of locations and others;
2. (c) prescribing and defining the duties, in connection with vaccination, of medical practitioners and vaccinators employed by the Government;
3. (d) as to the application and enforcement of this Part to persons entering Uganda whether by land, water or air, and for requiring, where deemed necessary, the vaccination or re-vaccination of any person before entering; and
4. (e) generally for better carrying out the provisions and attaining the objects and purposes of this Part.

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1. (1) The Minister shall not require any person to be vaccinated or revaccinated unless-
2. (a) the vaccine to be administered is approved by the National Drug Authority and is safe for the health of the person required to be vaccinated or revaccinated;
3. (b) Government has provided the vaccine and other related services free of charge to the person; and
4. (c) Government has ensured that the person required to be vaccinated or revaccinated has access to the vaccines.
5. (2) The Minister shall, by statutory instrument, issue rules regarding the accessibility to and administration of vaccines for other immunisable diseases of public health interest.

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1. (1) A person shall not make, cause to be made, or publish any misleading statement or information regarding the use or effect of any vaccine.
2. (2) A person who contravenes this section commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty currency points or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or both.

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1. (1) In the implementation of this Act, the Minister shall adopt a preventive approach to disease control.
2. (2) The Minister shall, by statutory instrument, make regulations to institutionalise health promotion and awareness in the public domain.
3. (3) Where applicable, the Government shall make financial provisions for the promotion of national health and wellness programmes.

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1. In the implementation of this Act, the Minister shall have power to require any Ministry, department or agency of Government or any person to institute mechanisms and implement this Act to give full effect to the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases

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1. 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

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1. The Authority or a local government council 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

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) The Authority or a local government council 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 occupation of unhealthy dwellings or premises or from overcrowding or from the condition or manner of use of any factory or trade premises and to take proceedings under the law against any person causing or responsible for the continuance of such condition.
2. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), except with the consent of the inspector appointed under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, no action shall be taken by the Authority or a local government council under this Part 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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) 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 as to be offensive or to be likely to be injurious or dangerous to health;
2. (c) 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;
3. (d) any well or other source of water supply or cistern or other receptacle for water, whether public or private, the water from which is used or is likely to be for drinking for human beings or animals or for domestic use or for use in connection with the manufacture or preparation of any article of food intended for human or animal consumption, which is in a condition liable to render any such water injurious of dangerous to human or animal health;
4. (e) 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;
5. (f) 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 persons 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 persons or domestic animals by such parasites;
6. (g) 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;
7. (h) any cesspit, latrine, urinal, dung pit, or ash pit found to contain any of the immature stages of the mosquito;
8. (i) any stable, cowshed or other building or premises used for keeping of animals or birds which is so situated, used or kept as to be offensive or which is injurious or dangerous to health;

15 further items remain in the statutory text above.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. The author of a nuisance means the person by whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance is caused, exists or is continued, whether the author is the owner or occupier or both owner and occupier or any other person

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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 Authority or a local government council shall remove the nuisance and may do what is necessary to prevent recurrence of the nuisance.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If a person on whom a notice to abate a nuisance has been served under section 55 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 Authority or a local government council, likely to recur on the same premises, the Authority or a local government council 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. (2) If a 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 the author, occupier or owner, as the case may be, 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. (3) The court may by the order impose a fine not exceeding two hundred currency points 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. (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. (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. (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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Any person who fails to obey an order by a court of competent jurisdiction to comply with the requirements of the Authority or a local government council or otherwise to remove the nuisance shall, unless that person satisfies the court that all diligence was used to carry out the order, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred currency points for every day during which the default continues.
2. (2) Any person wilfully acting in contravention of a closing order issued under section 56 is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred currency points for every day during which the contravention continues.
3. (3) The Authority or a local government council 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.

1. 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 Authority or a local government council 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

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Where any court of competent jurisdiction has twice within a period of three months issued an order as specified in section 56(2) relating to overcrowding of the same premises or part of the same premises, the court may, on the application of the Authority or a local government council, order the house to be closed for such period as the court may deem necessary

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. (1) Where any nuisance liable to be dealt with in the manner provided in this Part appears to be wholly or partly caused by the acts or defaults of two or more persons, the Authority or a local government council 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 the act or default, of that person 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. (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. (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, 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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Where, in the opinion of the Authority or local government, 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 Authority or local government 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. (2) The court shall give notice to the occupier of premises in respect of which a demolition order has been issued requiring the occupier 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 that person commits an offence.
3. (3) Where any person fails to comply with an order for demolition, the person commits an offence and is liable to pay the daily fine provided in section 57(2); and the Authority or local government council, as the case may be, may apply to court for an order for demolition and the Authority or local government council may recover from the owner the expense incurred in doing so, after deducting the net proceeds of the sale of the materials which the Authority or the local government may sell by auction.
4. (4) No compensation shall be paid by the Authority or local government 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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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. (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. (3) Where, in accordance with this Act, the Authority or a local government council 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 the owner or occupier establishes claim to it within two years after the date of the sale, failing which the balance shall become part of the public revenue.

Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.

1. The Authority or a local government council 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 Authority or a local government council 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 Authority or a local government council shall restore the premises at its own expense.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) The Minister may make rules and may confer powers and impose duties in connection with the carrying out and enforcement of the rules on the Authority or the local government councils, owners and others as to-
2. (a) the inspection of land, dwellings, buildings, factories and trade premises, and for securing the keeping of them clean and free from nuisance and so as not to endanger the health of the inmates or the public health;
3. (b) the regulation of the cleaning and painting of premises and the maintenance of the land attached to premises and the removal of refuse and waste matters from the premises;
4. (c) the drainage of land, streets or premises, the disposal of offensive liquids and the removal and disposal of rubbish, refuse, manure and waste matters;
5. (d) the keeping of animals or birds and the construction, cleanliness and drainage of places where animals or birds are kept;
6. (e) the 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;
7. (f) the inspection by the Authority or a local government council of any land or building within the jurisdiction of the Authority or local government council, as the case may be, with a view to ascertain whether the lands or buildings are in a state injurious or dangerous to health;
8. (g) the general control of trade premises, hotels and other lodging houses, for adequate ventilation and lighting, cleaning and for the provision of adequate sanitary appliances and other requirements, necessary for the protection of the health of the inhabitants, tenants or lodgers and the neighbouring inhabitants, as may be applicable;

2 further items remain in the statutory text above.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If it appears to the Authority or a local government that, in the case of any building-
2. (a) satisfactory provision has not been, and ought to be, made for drainage;
3. (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;
4. (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
5. (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, the Authority or a local government council 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.
6. (2) Except in cases where the Authority or a local government council 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 requirements of the Building Control Act, relating to drainage and that the drainage systems of the premises discharge into cesspools or other places which the Authority or local government council approves.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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 or a local government council shall, by notice to the owner of the building, require the owner of the building 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 or a local government council and as may be necessary; except that where a sufficient water supply and sewer are available, the Authority or a local government council shall not require the provision of a water-closet except in substitution for an existing water closet.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) If it appears to the Authority or a local government 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 or a local government council 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. (2) Where an owner or an occupier fails to comply with the notice served under subsection (1), the owner or the occupier, as the case may be, commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty currency points and to a further fine not exceeding fifty currency points for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.
3. (3) In any proceedings under this section-
4. (a) the owner, where the owner is the defendant, may question the decision to address the notice to the owner and not to the occupant, and the occupant may also question the decision, where the notice is addressed to the occupant and not the owner; and
5. (b) the defendant may question the reasonableness of the requirements of the Authority or the local government council, as the case may be.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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;
2. (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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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. (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 ten currency points.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) No person shall, within a municipality or town, permit any premises or lands owned or occupied by that person or over which that person has control to become so overgrown with bush or long grass as, in the opinion of the municipal council or town council, as the case may be, to be likely to harbour mosquitoes.
2. (2) An owner or an occupier who contravenes subsection (1), commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty currency points and to a further fine not exceeding one currency point for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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 the Authority or the local government council so as to prevent the ingress of mosquitoes into the same.
2. (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1), commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty currency points and to a further fine not exceeding fifty currency points for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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 the Authority or the local government council so as to prevent the ingress of mosquitoes.
2. (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1), commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty currency points and to a further fine not exceeding fifty currency points for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. 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 Authority or a local government council, as the case may be 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

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) A warehouse or building used for, or to be used for, the storage of foodstuffs, for trade or public consumption, shall be constructed with materials and in a manner that renders the warehouse or building verminproof.
2. (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 or contamination by any agent on account of its design or construction by reason of the materials used being defective, the Authority or local government council 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 Authority or local government council, as the case may be, may seize and seal the premises or enter upon the premises and effect such repairs and alterations, and may recover all costs and expenses incurred from the owner.
3. (3) Where, in the opinion of a medical officer of health, the foodstuffs within a warehouse or building are insufficiently protected against rats, vermin, or pollution, the owner of the warehouse or building shall observe all written instructions and directions of the Authority or a local government council within a time to be specified in the notice for the better protection of the foodstuffs.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) No person shall reside or sleep in any kitchen or room in which foodstuffs for sale are prepared or stored for sale.
2. (2) If it appears to a medical officer or a person authorised by the medical officer 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 and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred fifty currency points and to a further fine not exceeding fifty currency points for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) The Minister may make rules for the preservation of health or the prevention of disease.
2. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make rules regarding any of the following matters-
3. (a) 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;
4. (b) the establishment, locality, supervision, equipment, maintenance and management of slaughter-houses and places in which animals awaiting slaughter are kept and the disposal of the waste products of slaughtering and the inspection of slaughter-houses and the animals in them, and prohibiting, restricting or regulating the slaughtering of animals;
5. (c) 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;
6. (d) the licensing, regulation and inspection of hotels, restaurants, cafes, eating-houses and lodging houses;
7. (e) the regulation of the preparation and sale of food by hawkers;
8. (f) the licensing, regulation and inspection of the manufacture preparation, storage and transmission of any liquid and semi liquid articles of food;

7 further items remain in the statutory text above.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) prohibit the employment of any person in connection with the collection, preparation, storage, distribution or sale of any article of food, where that person is proved to be a carrier of an infectious disease.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. The Minister may make a statutory order closing any restaurant, market, wholesale outlet, retail outlet or butcher shop, where any article of food sold at the restaurant, market, wholesale outlet, retail outlet or butcher shop, as the case may be, is believed to have conveyed or to be liable to convey any infectious disease

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. 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 bum the dead elsewhere within the municipality or town

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) All cemeteries now being used as such and such other cemeteries as may be authorised by the Minister shall be deemed authorised cemeteries.
2. (2) Where a cemetery is authorised under subsection (1), the cemetery shall remain so authorised until the Minister prescribes otherwise.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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-
2. (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;
3. (b) the permit may be granted by court in respect of any body or the remains of any body interred in any cemetery or burial ground or any other place.
4. (2) Court may prescribe such precautions as the court 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 twenty-five currency points.
5. (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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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 consider fit.
2. (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. (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. (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. (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 Authority or a local government council of the area in which the grave is situated.
6. (6) The Minister shall cause proper and fitting arrangements to be made for the re-interment of any body or remains of any body removed under this section, and for the removal and re-erection of any monument, all charges in connection therewith being defrayed out of the public revenue.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (b) ensure that all Ugandans have access to health services;
2. (c) provide health facilities and opportunities necessary to enhance the welfare of women to enable the women realise their full potential and advancement;
3. (d) ensure that no child is deprived of medical treatment for any reason; and
4. (e) take appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities realise their full mental and physical potential.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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 by an officer so authorised, in writing, by the Authority or a local government, as the case may be, to sign documents of the particular kind or the particular document, as the case may be.
2. (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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. Any notice, court summons, order to other document required or authorised or 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
2. 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; and where efforts to effect service using these means fail, notice may be served by publication of the notice in a newspaper of wide circulation in Uganda or using the electronic address of the person to be served and in proving that service it shall be sufficient to prove that the notice, court summons, order or other document was properly addressed and served.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. 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.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (1) Any person with powers of entry and inspection of premises under this Act and a person authorised, in writing, by a person with powers of entry and inspection, 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. (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 may lawfully be required to be given 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 and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred fifty currency points.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. A local government may seal premises that are open in contravention of this Act or rules made under this Act

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

1. (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. (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. (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-
4. (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;
5. (b) that there has been some defect or error in, or in connection with, the notice;
6. (c) that the works required by the notice to be executed are unreasonable in character or extent;
7. (d) that the time within which the works are to be executed is not reasonably sufficient for the purpose;
8. (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.

5 further items remain in the statutory text above.

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.