Last Change:
06/24/2025
Public Health Act (cap.310)
Year: 1935
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Health
Link to external source:
https://ulii.org/akn/ug/act/ord/1935/13/eng@2023-12-31
Description
An Act to consolidate the law regarding the preservation of public health.
Selected provisions
Section 56. Duty of Authority and local government councils to prevent or remedy danger to health arising from unsuitable dwellings
(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