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Solomon Islands Consolidated Legislation |
LAWS OF SOLOMON ISLANDS
[Rev. Edition
1996]
CHAPTER 99
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1.
SHORT TITLE
2.
INTERPRETATION
3. DUTIES OF THE
MINISTER
4. APPOINTMENT OF
STAFF
5. DELEGATION BY THE
MINISTER
6. ENFORCEMENT
AUTHORITIES
7. DEFAULT BY ENFORCEMENT
AUTHORITY
8. POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT
AUTHORITY
9. RIGHT OF ENTRY OF
AUTHORISED OFFICERS
10. PROTECTION OF
AUTHORISED OFFICERS
11.
REGULATIONS
12. SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS
FOR OFFENCES
13. SERVICE OF
NOTICES
14. LIABILITY OF SECRETARY,
MANAGER OR DIRECTOR OF A COMPANY
15.
PROSECUTIONS
16. REFERENCE TO OWNER OF
PREMISES
17. RECOVERY OF COSTS AND
EXPENSES
18. FINANCIAL
PROVISIONS
19. REPEAL AND
SAVINGS
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
3 of 1980
AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISIONS
FOR SECURING AND MAINTAINING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED
THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO
[1st August 1980]
Short
title
1.
-This Act may be cited as the Environmental Health
Act.
Interpretation
2.
-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
"Authorised Officer" means an officer appointed under sections 4 or 6(1);
"Enforcement Authority" means an authority included in those specified in section 6(1);
"Minister" means the Minister from time to time assigned responsibility for environmental health matters, and "Ministry" shall be construed accordingly;
"Permanent Secretary" means the Permanent Secretary to the Minister responsible for environmental health matters.
Duties
of the
Minister
3.
- Subject to the provisions of this Act,
the Minister shall be responsible for the administration of the environmental
health services
in Solomon
Islands.
Appointment
of
staff
4.-(1)
In administering this Act, the Minister shall have the services of a Ministry
headed by a Permanent Secretary and may appoint
such persons (to be known as
"Authorised Officers") as he considers necessary to assist him in the
administration of this
Act:
Provided that any appointment
of a person who is not a public officer shall be in accordance with the
Constitution.
(2) The Minister
may, after consulting the Secretary for the Public Service and, in the case of
Authorised Officers appointed by Enforcement
Authorities, the Minister
responsible for Home Affairs, make regulations prescribing the training and
qualifications required for
the appointment of Authorised Officers, and the
particular duties that may be undertaken by Authorised Officers having regard to
their qualifications and
training.
Delegation
by the
Minister
5.
- (1) The Minister may by Order delegate
any matters falling to be administered by the Ministry under this Act to an
Enforcement Authority.
(2) When
delegating any of his powers, the Minister shall have regard to the expertise
available to the Enforcement Authority and
the ability of the Enforcement
Authority to ensure that matters covered by this Act and regulations made
hereunder can be adequately
administered and enforced by the Enforcement
Authority.
(3) Any Order made by
the Minister under subsection (1) may be revoked or amended by a subsequent
Order.
Enforcement
Authorities
6.
- (1) The Enforcement Authorities to which the Minister may delegate matters in
accordance with section 5(1) are the Provincial Assemblies
and the Honiara Town
Council.
(2) Subject to any
regulations made under section 4(2), an Enforcement Authority may appoint
suitable persons to be Authorised Officers
for the purposes of administering and
enforcing those matters delegated to the Enforcement Authority under section
5.
(3) The Ministry shall within
the area of each Enforcement Authority administer this Act and regulations made
hereunder in respect
of those matters which have not been delegated to that
Enforcement Authority by the
Minister.
Default
by Enforcement
Authority
7.-(1)
Whenever a complaint is made to the Minister and lie is satisfied that the
public health in any locality is endangered by the
failure or refusal on any
part of any Enforcement Authority to perform the duties delegated to it under
this Act he may, after making
such enquiries as he considers necessary to
ascertain whether the Enforcement Authority has been guilty of the alleged
default, make
an Order directing the Enforcement Authority to perform its duty
in respect of the matter of such complaint and shall prescribe a
time for such
exercise or performance.
(2) If
the Enforcement Authority does not perform the duty within the time prescribed
in the Order made under subsection (1), the
Minister may appoint some other
person to perform the duty and shall by Order direct that the expenses of
performing the same, together
with a reasonable remuneration to the person
appointed for superintending such performance not exceeding the sum specified in
the
Order, shall be paid by the Enforcement Authority in default and any such
expenses and costs so ordered to be met, may be recovered
through a
court.
(3) Any person appointed
under subsection (2) to perform the duty of a defaulting Enforcement Authority
shall, in the performance
and for the purpose of such duty, have all the powers
exercisable by such Enforcement Authority under this Act or any regulations
made
hereunder.
Powers
of Enforcement
Authority
8.-(1)
Any Enforcement Authority may, in respect of such matters as may have been
delegated to it under this Act by the Minister, make
by-laws to facilitate the
efficient operation of services provided and actions carried out by it in
connection with such matters.
(2)
Before making by-laws under subsection (1), an Enforcement Authority shall
consult with the Minister.
(3)
Each Enforcement Authority shall carry out a programme of health education and
publicity in accordance with directions given to
it by the
Minister.
Right
of entry of Authorised
Officers
9.-(1)
Any Authorised Officer shall on producing, if required, some duly authenticated
document showing his authority, have the right
to enter any premises at all
reasonable times -
(a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is or has been on or in connection with the premises any contravention of this Act or regulations made hereunder;
(b) for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not circumstances exist which would authorise or require the Enforcement Authority to take action or execute any work under this Act or regulations made hereunder;
(c) for the purpose of taking any action or executing any work authorised or required under this Act or any regulations made hereunder, to be taken or executed by the Enforcement Authority;
(d) generally for the performance by the Enforcement Authority of matters assigned or delegated to it under this Act:
Provided
that admission to any premises not being a factory, workshop or workplace shall
not be demanded as a right unless twenty-four
hours notice of intended entry has
been given to the occupier.
(2) If
it is shown to the satisfaction of a Magistrate that-
(a) admission to any premises has been refused or that the premises are unoccupied or the occupier is temporarily absent or that the case is one of emergency or that an application for admission would defeat the object of entry; and
(b) there are reasonable grounds for entry into the premises as aforesaid,
the
Magistrate may by warrant authorise any Authorised Officer to enter the
premises, if need be, by
force.
(3) Any person who wilfully
obstructs any Authorised Officer acting in execution of this Act shall be liable
to a fine of two hundred
dollars.
Protection
of Authorised
Officers
10.-(1)
No Authorised Officer shall be generally liable in respect of any act done by
him in the execution or purported execution of
this Act and within the scope of
his employment, if he did such act in the honest belief that his duty under the
Act required him
or entitled him to do
it:
Provided that nothing in this
section shall be construed as relieving an Enforcement Authority from any
liability in respect of the
acts of Authorised Officers employed by
it.
(2) Where an action has been
brought against an Authorised Officer in respect of an action done by him in the
execution or purported
execution of this Act and the circumstances are such that
he is not legally entitled to require the Enforcement Authority to indemnify
him, the Enforcement Authority may nevertheless indemnify him against the whole
or part of the damages and costs which he may be
ordered to pay or may have
incurred, if it is satisfied that he honestly believed that the action
complained of was within the scope
of his employment and that his duty under
this Act required or entitled him to do
it.
Regulations
11.-(1)
The Minister may make Regulations for the better carrying out of the purposes
and provisions of this Act and regulating the activities
of any person
(including the Government or any statutory authority) in relation to the
maintenance or improvement of environmental
health
generally.
(2) Such regulations
may create offences and prescribe penalties in respect thereof not exceeding a
fine of one thousand dollars or
imprisonment for one year or for both such fine
and imprisonment, and such penalty may provide for fines to be imposed on a
daily
basis in respect of a continuing
offence.
(3) Offences against
regulations made under subsection (1) may be dealt with in the manner prescribed
therein or as prescribed in
section
12.
(4) Until such time as the
Minister shall have made regulations in respect of the matters contained therein
and thereby replace them,
each of Parts III to XII and section 2 (definition of
terms used) of the Public Health Act, 1970 shall be deemed to be a regulation
made under the provisions of this Act and shall be read and construed
accordingly:
Provided that the
penalties prescribed in those Parts, and the method of dealing with the offences
created thereby shall be subject
to the provisions of this
Act.
Summary
proceedings for
offences
12.
Proceedings for enforcement of regulations made under this Act may, where the
Enforcement Authority considers it desirable that the
person it considers to be
in breach of any such regulation shall first have the opportunity to remedy such
breach, be taken in accordance
with the provisions of this section
-
(a) where an Authorised Officer is satisfied that a contravention exists or has occurred, he shall serve a notice (hereinafter referred to as an abatement notice) on the person by whose act, default or sufferance the contravention arose or continues, and if that person cannot be found, on the owner or occupier of the premises on which the contravention occurs, requiring him, within a specified period of time to abate the contravention, or is the case may be, to prevent its recurrence, and for that purpose to carry out such work or to take such action as may be specified in the notice, provided that -
(i) where the contravention arises from any defect of a structural nature in a building, the notice shall be served on the owner of the building;
(ii) where the person causing the contravention cannot be found and it is clear that the contravention does not arise or continue by the act, default or sufferance of the owner or occupier of the premises, the Authorised Officer may, if he is so instructed by the Enforcement Authority (either generally or in a specified class) do what he considers necessary to abate the contravention or to prevent a recurrence thereof;
(iii) where it is practical to abate a contravention without delay, the word "immediately" may be specified instead of a period of time;
(b) if the person on whom an abatement notice is served, fails to comply with the requirements thereof, or if the contravention although abated since the serving of the notice, is, in the opinion of the Authorised Officer, likely to recur, the person on whom the abatement notice has been served, may be summoned to appear in court and the court may impose such penalty and issue such orders concerning future action to be taken by the defendant, as it deems appropriate;
(c) where proceedings are brought under this section in respect of a contravention of any regulation relating to the accumulation of a deposit of offensive matter, it shall be a defence by the defendant to prove that the accumulation or deposit was necessary for the carrying on of the business or manufacture, and has not been kept longer than necessary for the purpose of manufacture or business and that the best practical means have been taken to prevent it being prejudicial to the health of persons in the neighbourhood;
(d) where proceedings are brought under this section in respect of a contravention of any regulation relating to dust, fumes, smoke, effluvia or effluent caused by any trade, business or manufacture it shall be a defence by the defendant to prove that the best practical means have been taken for preventing or counteracting the effects of the dust, fumes, smoke effluvia or effluent;
(e) where a contravention appears to be due to the acts or defaults of two or all of them and any one or more persons, proceedings may be instituted against any one of them or two or more persons so proceeded against may be ordered to abate the contravention, so far as it appears to the court to be caused by his or their acts or defaults, or may be prohibited from continuing with acts or defaults, which in the opinion of the court, contribute to the contravention, or may be fined or otherwise be punished, notwithstanding that the acts or defaults of any one of those persons would not separately have caused the contravention.
Service
of
notices
13.
Unless otherwise expressly provided, any order, notice, demand, certificate or
other document required to be served under the provisions
of this Act or
regulations made hereunder may be served either -
(a) by delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served; or
(b) by sending it by registered post addressed to the last known place of business or residence of the person to be served; or
(c) by leaving it with an adult occupier of the premises or place to which the notice relates or by posting it upon a conspicuous part of such premises or place.
Liability
of secretary, manager or director of a company
14.
Where a contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or regulations made
hereunder is committed by any company or corporation,
the secretary, manager or
any director thereof may be summoned and shall be held liable for such
contravention and the consequences
thereof.
Prosecutions
15.-(1)
An Enforcement Authority (which for this purpose shall include the Ministry)
may, by any Authorised Officer, or by any person
generally or specially
authorised by it in writing, institute and conduct proceedings for any
contravention of, or offence against,
or default in complying with, any
provision of this Act or regulations or by-laws made hereunder if the
contravention, offence or
default is alleged to have been committed within its
boundaries.
(2) All fines secured
under the provisions of this Act by or on behalf of an Enforcement Authority
other than the Ministry shall be
paid into the general revenue of that
Authority.
(3) Nothing in this
section shall be deemed to derogate from the powers of the Director of Public
Prosecutions in relation to the
prosecution of criminal
offences.
Reference
to owner of
premises
16.
Whenever in any proceedings whether written or otherwise under this Act or any
regulations made hereunder, it becomes necessary to
refer to the owner of any
premises, it shall be sufficient to designate him as the owner of those premises
without name or further
description.
Recovery
of costs and
expenses
17.
Where any Enforcement Authority (including the Ministry) has incurred expenses
for the repayment whereof the owner of the premises
for or in respect of which
the same are incurred is made liable under this Act or by an agreement with the
Enforcement Authority,
those expenses may be recovered, together with interest
at a rate not exceeding five
per
centum per annum from the date of service
of a demand for the same until payment thereof, from any person who is the owner
of the premises
when the works are completed for which the expenses have been
incurred and until recovery of the expenses and interest the same shall
be a
charge on the premises in respect of which they were
incurred.
Financial
provisions
18.-(1)
Any expenses incurred by the Ministry in the exercise of its functions under
this Act shall be defrayed out of monies provided
by
Parliament.
(2) All fees levied or
charges collected by the Ministry or fines secured by or on behalf of the
Ministry under the provisions of
this Act or regulations made hereunder or
regular visits made hereunder shall be paid into the Consolidated
Fund.
(3) Where fees are charged
in accordance with Regulations made under this Act, the conditions under which
any remission of such fees
may be granted by the person or authority responsible
for the collection thereof shall be prescribed by the
Minister.
(4) Any fee or charge
payable under or by virtue of this Act or regulations made hereunder and
remaining unpaid after the due date
for payment, may in addition to any other
lawful method of recovery, be recovered as a debt due to the
Crown.
Repeal
and
savings
19.
Subject to the provisions of section 11, the Public Health Act, 1970 is hereby
repealed:
Provided that all
subsidiary legislation made thereunder in force immediately prior to the coming
into operation of this Act, shall
continue in force until such time as the
Minister may by Order, revoke or rescind such subsidiary legislation or any part
thereof,
or otherwise replace the same.
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CHAPTER 99
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Subsidiary Legislation
ORDER
DELEGATING FUNCTIONS
(Section
5(1))
LN
12/1987
All matters falling to be
administered by the Ministry under the Act are hereby delegated to the Honiara
Town Council.
_____________________
(The
provisions of Parts Ill to XII and section 2 of the repealed Public Health Act
(No 2 of 1970) deemed to be regulations under section
11 of the Environmental
Health Act.)
THE
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (PUBLIC HEALTH
ACT)
REGULATIONS
3 of 1980,
s. 11(4)
LN
63/1981
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Health (Public Health Act)
Regulations.
Interpretation
2.
- (1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires
-
"advertisement" includes any notice, circular, label, wrapper, invoice or other document, and any public announcement made orally or by any means of producing or transmitting light or sound;
"author of a nuisance" means a person by whose act, default or sufferance nuisance is caused, exists or is continued;
"basement" means a storey or part of a storey partly below the ground level, the ceiling of which is not less than five feet above the level of the adjoining ground irrespective of any excavations made for the purpose of complying with these Regulations;
"building" includes any structure whatsoever for whatever purpose used;
"burial" means burial in earth, or any other form of sepulture, or the cremation or any other mode of disposal of a dead body;
"business" means any commercial undertaking includes the undertaking of a canteen, club, school hospital or institution, whether carried on for profit not, and any undertaking or activity carried on by a public or local authority;
"cattle" means bovine cattle and includes goats:
"Chief Health Inspector" means an officer in the public service appointed (whenever appointed) to be a Principal Health Inspector;
LN 63/1981
"container" includes any basket, pail, bucket, tray, package or receptacle of any kind, whether open or close;
"cream" means that part of milk rich in fat which has been separated by skimming or otherwise;
"dairy" includes any farm, cowshed, milking house, milk store, milk shop or other premises from which milk supplied on or for sale, or in which milk is kept used for purposes of sale or for the purposes of manufacture into butter, cheese, dried milk or condensed milk for sale, or in which vessels used for the sale of milk are kept, but does not include a shop from which milk is supplied only in the properly closed and unopened vessels in which it is deliver to the shop, or a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only;
"district" means, in relation to a local authority, a sanitary district;
"drain" means a drain used for the drainage of one building or any buildings or yards appurtenant to building within the same curtilage, and the expression "public drain" means a drain which is vested in and maintained by the Government or a local authority and, for the purposes of these Regulations includes any part of a drain from the outlet of any disconnecting trap to it junction with a public drain or sewer, and the expression "private drain" means any drain other than public drain;
"drainage" means the conveyance of sewage, rain and surface water from buildings and premises, and includes the conveyance by means of a sink and any other necessary appliance of waste water, and the conveyance of rain water from roofs;
"drainage works" means the construction, installation, laying, connecting, fixing, repair or removal of any pipe, drain, gully, cesspool, soakaway, septic tank, sewage filter installation or other works for the discharge, reception or disposal of sewage in connection with any premises, or of any waste-pipe, soil-pipe trap, urinal, water-closet, slop-hopper, sink, bath, lavatory basin, ventilation pipe or anti-syphonage pipe, or any drain fitting or water-flushing cistern, or any works connected with the discharge of liquid or soiled matter into any drain, sewer, cesspool soakaway, septic tank, sewage filter installation, or other like receptacle for drainage, or otherwise connected with the drainage of any premises;
"drug" includes medicine for internal or external use;
"dwelling" means any house room, shed, hut, cave, tent, vehicle, vessel or boat, or any other structure or place whatsoever, any portion whereof is used by any human being for sleeping or in which any human being dwells;
"factory" means any building or part of a building in which machinery is worked by steam, water, electricity or other mechanical power, for the purposes of trade;
"food" includes drink, chewing gum and other products of a like nature and use, and articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food or drink or of such products, but does not include-
(a) water, live animals or birds;
(b) fodder or feeding stuffs for animals, birds or fish; or
(c) articles or substances used only as drugs;
"fomites" means any porous substance capable of absorbing and retaining contagious effluvia;
"health inspector" means an officer in the public service appointed (whenever appointed) to be a Health Assistant, Assistant Health Inspector, Senior Health Inspector or Principal Health Inspector;
LN 63/1981
"health officer" means any person appointed by a local authority, with the prior approval of the Director, to be a health officer;
"human consumption", in relation to food, includes use of food in the preparation thereof for human consumption;
"infected" means suffering from, or in the incubation stage or contaminated by the infection of any infectious or notifiable disease;
"infectious disease" means any disease which can be communicated directly or indirectly by any person suffering therefrom to any other person;
"isolation" means the segregation and the separation from and the state of being prevented from communication with others, of persons who are or are suspected of being infected;
"knacker's yard" means any premises used in connection with the business of slaughtering, flaying or cutting up animals the flesh of which is not intended for human consumption;
"local authority", in relation to any sanitary district meal such person as the Minister may by notice appoint as the local authority for such district, and such appointment shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister may specify in such notice;
"milk" includes cream and separated milk, but does not include dried milk or condensed milk;
"notifiable disease" means a disease specified in the First Schedule and any other disease which the Minister may from time to time by notice declare to be a notifiable disease for the purposes of these Regulations;
"nuisance" means anything which injures or is likely to injure health, and which admits of a remedy either by the individual whose act or omission causes the nuisance or by the local authority;
"occupier" includes any person in actual occupation of land or premises without regard to the title under which he occupies and, in the case of premises sub-divided and sub-let, the person receiving the rent payable by the sub-lessees, whether he receives such rent on his own account or as an agent for any person entitled thereto or interested therein;
"owner" applies to every person in possession of or in receipt either of the whole or of any part of the rents or profits of any land or tenement or in the occupation of that land or tenement other than as a tenant from year to year or for any less term or as a tenant at will;
"persons subject to isolation" means persons suffering suspected to be suffering from any notifiable disease or who may otherwise in the opinion of a medical practitioner be or become sources of infection with notifiable disease;
"prejudicial to health" means injurious or likely to cause injury to health;
"premises" includes messuages and buildings and lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;
"preparation", in relation to food, includes manufacture and any form of treatment, and
"preparation for sale" includes packaging; and "prepare" and "prepare for sale" shall be construed accordingly;
"to sell" includes to barter and also includes to offer or attempt to sell or receive for sale or have in possession for sale or expose for sale or send forward for sale or deliver for sale or cause or suffer or allow to be sold, offered or exposed for sale, but refers only to selling for consumption or use by man;
"separated", in relation to milk, includes skimmed;
"sewer" does not include a drain as defined in this regulation but otherwise includes all sewers and drains used for the drainage of buildings and yards appurtenant to buildings, and the expression "public sewer" means a sewer which is vested in and maintained by the Government or a local authority and includes, for the purposes of these Regulations, any part of a sewer from the outlet of any disconnecting trap to its junction with a public sewer or drain, and the expression "private sewer" means any other sewer;
"sewage" means soil water, waste water, and manufacturing or trade effluent;
"slaughterhouse" means a place for slaughtering animals, the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption, and includes any place available in connection therewith for the confinement of animals while awaiting slaughter there, or for keeping or subjecting to any treatment or process products of the slaughtering of animals in such place;
"soil pipe" means any pipe fixed on or in any building for the purpose of conveying the discharges from any water closet, urinal, slop-hopper, bidet, or any waste water containing excremental liquid or substance;
"Solomon Islands vessel" means a vessel primarily engaged in voyages within Solomon Islands;
"substance" includes a liquid;
"trade premises" means any premises used or intended to be used for carrying on any trade or business;
"transit" includes all stages of transit from the dairy, place of manufacture or other source of origin, to the consumer;
"vermin", in its application to insects and parasites, includes their eggs, larvae and pupae;
"water-closet" means a closet which has a separate fixed receptacle for the reception of excremental matter connected to a drainage system and separate provision for flushing from a supply of clean water either by the operation of mechanism or by automatic action;
"waste-pipe" means any pipe fixed on or in any building for the purpose of conveying waste water of a non-excremental character from baths, lavatory basins, sinks, wash-tubs, and similar fittings;
"waste water" means discharge of a non-excremental character from baths, lavatory basins, sinks, wash-tubs, and similar fittings;
"workplace" means any premises or building (other than a workshop) or any part of such premises or building in which work is performed or carried on for reward or profit;
"workshop" means any premises or building, or any part of such premises or building, in which any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain.
(2)
For the purposes of these Regulations -
(a) the supply of food, whether by way of sale, or otherwise, at, in or from any hotel, restaurant or boardinghouse or other place where food is supplied in the course of business shall be deemed to be a sale of that food, and references to purchasing and purchasers shall be construed accordingly; and
(b) where, in connection with any business in the course of which food is supplied, the place where food is served to the customer is different from the place where food is consumed, both those places shall be deemed to be places in which food is supplied.
(3)
An appointment of any person for the purposes of these Regulations shall, if the
appointment is to an office in the public service,
be made pursuant to the
Constitution, but otherwise may be made by the Minister.
PART II*
[*Part
II of the repeal Public Health Act omitted - vide section 11 of the
Environmental Health Act.]
PART III
PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
Provisions
regarding notification of notifiable
diseases
7.-(1)
Where any person is suffering from any notifiable disease -
(a) the head of the family to which such person (in this regulation referred to as the patient) belongs, and in his default the nearest adult relative of the patient present, or in default of such person, the person in charge of or in attendance on the patient, and in default of any such person the occupier of any building in which the patient may be lodged shall, as soon as he becomes aware, or has reason to suspect that the patient is suffering from any notifiable disease, send notice thereof to the nearest medical practitioner, or to the nearest nurse registered under the Nursing Council Act or, in default of any such person, to the nearest health inspector, health officer or sanitary officer;
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(b) every medical practitioner or nurse attending on or called in to visit the patient shall forthwith, on becoming aware or having reason to suspect that such patient is suffering from a notifiable disease, notify the senior medical officer of the district in which the patient is living (hereinafter referred to as the District Medical Officer) in such manner as the Under Secretary (Health), Ministry of Health and Medical Services may from time to time direct; and shall also inform the head of the patient's family or any other person in attendance on the patient's employer, if any, of the communicable nature of the disease and the precautions to be taken to prevent its conveyance to others.
(2)
Every medical practitioner or nurse who becomes aware or has reason to suspect,
whether by post-mortem examination or otherwise,
that any person has died of a
notifiable disease, shall immediately furnish a written certificate thereof to
the District Medical
Officer and shall also inform the head of the patient's
family or any other person who has been in attendance on such deceased person
and the person, if any, in whose employment such deceased person was immediately
prior to death of the communicable nature of the
disease and the precautions to
be taken to prevent its conveyance to
others.
Powers
of Minister, Director, local authorities,
etc
8.-(1)
For the purposes of preventing the occurrence or of checking the spread of any
notifiable disease in Solomon. Island, and generally
for carrying out the
provisions of this Part, the Minister acting in his discretion shall have
power-
(a) to cause to be provided in such parts of Solomon Islands as he may deem fit permanent or temporary hospitals, camps and stations for-
(i) the isolation, treatment and disinfection of persons suffering from a notifiable disease and of persons who, as a result of contact with infected persons or otherwise, may be or become a source of infection;
(ii) the isolation, cleansing and disinfection of infected articles and goods;
(b) to expend from the Consolidated Fund such sums of money as in his opinion may be necessary;
(c) to do all such other things as he may deem necessary for the protection of public health; and
(d) to exempt any person, animals, goods, vehicles of Solomon Islands vessels from any provisions of this Part or to relax in their favour any prescribed procedure as he, in his discretion, may think fit.
(2)
The Under Secretary (Health) Ministry of Health and Medical Services shall, for
the aforesaid purposes, have power -
*(f) to forbid the discharge of sewage, drainage or insanitary matter of any description into any watercourse stream, lake or source of water supply;
[*
Paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) omitted as they were not brought into
force - vide LN 110/1970.]
**(i) to order a post-mortem examination on the body of a deceased person if the death of such person is suspected to have been due to a notifiable disease and the facts relating to the death cannot with certainty be ascertained without such examination or if it desirable for preventing the occurrence or speed of a notifiable disease that the facts relating to the death of any person should be ascertained;
[**
Paragraphs (g), and (h) omitted as they were not brought into force- vide LN
110/1970]
(j) to cause to be provided, equipped, maintained and staffed-
(i) places for the reception of dead bodies (mortuaries) and the performance of post-mortem examinations;
(ii) disinfecting and cleansing stations for the cleansing of persons and the cleansing and disinfection of dirty, verminous or infected clothing, bedding and other articles,
such
mortuaries, disinfecting and cleansing stations to be constructed according to
plans and specifications approved by the
Minister.
(7) In no case shall a
medical officer, health inspector, health officer, or other person incur any
personal liability by reason of
anything lawfully done by him under the powers
conferred by this
Part.
Powers to
amend First Schedule and to restrict application of
Part
*21.
The Minister may by notice-
(a) amend the First Schedule; and
(b) direct that all or any of the provisions of this Part shall not apply in relation to any notifiable disease specified in such notice.
[*Sections
9-20 (inclusive) omitted as they were not brought into force- vide LN
110/1970]
PART IV
NUISANCES
Nuisance
prohibited
22.
No person shall cause a nuisance or shall suffer to exist on any land or
premises owned or occupied by him or of which he is in
charge any nuisance or
other condition liable to be injurious or dangerous to
health.
Local
authorities to maintain cleanliness and prevent
nuisances
23.
It shall be the duty of every local authority to take all lawful, necessary and
reasonably practicable measures for maintaining
its district at all times in a
clean and sanitary condition, and for preventing the occurrence therein 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.
What
constitutes
nuisance
24.
The following shall be deemed to be nuisances liable to be dealt with in the
manner provided in this Part: -
(a) any dwelling or premises or part thereof which is or are of such construction or in such a state or so situated or so dirty or so verminous as to be injurious or dangerous health or which is or are liable to favour the spread of a infectious disease;
(b) any street, or part thereof, any stream, pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, sink, water-tank, cistern, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, urinal, cesspool, soakaway pit, septic tank, cesspit, soil-pipe, waste-pipe, drain, sewer, garbage receptacle, dustbin, dung-pit, refuse-pit, sloptank, ash-pit or manure heap so foul or in such a state or so situated or constructed as to be offensive or injurious or dangerous health;
(c) any well, river, stream, spring or other source of water supply, or any tank, cistern or other receptacle for water, whether public or private, the water from which is used or is likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes, or in connection with any dairy, or in connection with the manufacture or preparation of any article of food intended for human consumption, which is in the opinion of a health inspector or health officer polluted or otherwise liable to render any such water injurious or dangerous to health;
(d) any noxious matter or waste water flowing or discharged from any premises, wherever situated, into any street, or into the gutter, side channel or surface water drain of any street, or into any watercourse, irrigation channel of bed thereof not approved for the reception of such discharge;
(e) any stable, cowshed, or other building or premises used for the keeping of animals or birds, which is so constructed, situated, used or kept as to be offensive, or which is injurious or dangerous to health;
(f) any animal or bird so kept as to be injurious to health:
(g) any accumulation or deposit of refuse, rubbish, offal, manure or other matter whatsoever which is offensive or which is injurious or dangerous to health;
(h) any dwelling or premises which is or are so over-crowded as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of the inmates;
(i) any factory or trade premises not kept in a state of cleanliness and free from offensive smell arising from any drain, sewer, latrine or privy or not ventilated so as to destroy or render harmless and inoffensive as far as practicable any gases, vapours, dust or other impurities generated, or so overcrowded or so badly lighted or ventilated as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of those employed therein;
(j) any factory or trade premises causing or giving rise to smells or effluvia which are offensive or which are injurious or dangerous to health;
(k) any area of land kept or permitted to remain in such a state as to be offensive or liable, to cause any infectious, communicable or preventable disease or injury or danger to health;
(l) any chimney sending forth smoke, dust, grit, or other effluvia in such quantity or in such manner as to be offensive, or injurious or dangerous to health;
(m) any cemetery, burial place or place of sepulture so situated or so crowded or otherwise so conducted as to be offensive or injurious or dangerous to health;
(n) any septic tank, soakaway, cesspit, gully, cistern, sewer, drain, gutter, privy, water-closet or other drainage or sanitary fitment formerly used for the drainage of any building and no longer used therefor, which has not been filled in, demolished or removed to the satisfaction of a health inspector or health officer, and which is likely to give rise to conditions dangerous or injurious to health;
(o) any act, omission or thing which is, or may be, dangerous to life, or injurious to health.
Notice
to remove
nuisance
25.
A local authority or health inspector, if satisfied of the existence of a
nuisance, shall serve a notice on the author of the nuisance
or, if he cannot be
found, on the occupier or owner of the dwelling or premises on which the
nuisance arises or continues, requiring
him to remove it within the time
specified in the notice, and to execute such work and do such things as may be
necessary for that
purpose, and, if such local authority or health inspector
thinks it desirable (but not otherwise) specifying any work to be executed
to
prevent a recurrence of such
nuisance:
Provided that
-
(a) where the nuisance arises from any want or defect of a structural character, or where the dwelling or premises is or are unoccupied, the notice shall be served on the owner;
(b) where the author of the nuisance cannot be found and 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 local authority or health inspector may remove or cause the same to be removed and may do what is necessary to prevent the recurrence thereof.
Procedure
if owner fails to comply with
notice
26.-(1)
If the person on whom a notice to remove a nuisance has been served as aforesaid
fails to comply with any of the requirements
thereof within the time specified,
the local authority or a health inspector shall cause a complaint relating to
such nuisance to
be made before a court and the court shall thereupon issue a
summons requiring the person on whom the notice was served to appear
before
it.
(2) If the court is satisfied
that the alleged nuisance exists, the court shall make an order on the author
thereof, or the occupier
or owner of the dwelling or premises, as the case may
be, requiring him to comply with all or any of the requirements of the notice
or
otherwise to remove the nuisance within a time specified in the order and to do
any works necessary for that
purpose.
(3) The court may by such
order impose a fine of forty dollars 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) If the court is
satisfied that the nuisance, although removed since the service of the notice,
was not removed within the time
specified in such notice, the court may impose a
fine of forty dollars on the person on whom such notice was served, and may, in
addition to or in substitution for such fine, order such person to pay all costs
incurred up to the time of the hearing of the
case.
(5) If the nuisance,
although removed since the service of the notice, in the opinion of the local
authority or a health inspector
is likely to recur on the same dwelling or
premises, the local authority or health inspector shall cause a complaint
relating to
such nuisance to be made before a court and the court shall
thereupon issue a summons requiring the person on whom the notice was
served to
appear before it.
(6) If the court
is satisfied that the alleged nuisance, although removed, is likely to recur on
the same dwelling or premises, the
court shall make an order on the author
thereof or the occupier or owner of the dwelling or premises, as the case may
be, requiring
him to do any specified work necessary to prevent the recurrence
of the nuisance and prohibiting its
recurrence.
(7) In the event of
the person on whom such order as is specified in paragraphs (2) and (6) not
complying with the order within a
reasonable time, the local authority or health
inspector shall again cause a complaint to be made to a court and the court
shall
thereupon issue a summons requiring such person to appear before it and on
proof that the order has not been complied with may impose
a fine of forty
dollars and may also give directions as to the payment of all costs up to the
time of the hearing.
(8) 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 a person appointed for that
purpose by the
court.
Penalty
respecting
nuisances
27.-(1)
Any person who fails to obey an order to comply with the requirements of the
local authority or health inspector, or otherwise
to remove the nuisance, shall,
unless he satisfies the court that he has used all diligence to carry out such
order, be guilty of
an offence and liable to a fine of forty dollars and to a
further fine of ten dollars for every day or part of a day during which
the
non-compliance continues.
(2) The
local authority or health inspector may in such case enter the premises to which
any such order relates and remove the nuisance
and do whatever may be necessary
in the execution of such order and recover in a court the expenses incurred from
the person on whom
the order is
made.
Court may
order local authority to execute works in certain
cases
28.
Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of a Magistrate that the person by whose
act or default a nuisance arises, or that the owner
or occupier of the premises,
is not known or cannot be found, he may order the local authority to execute the
works thereby directed,
and the cost of executing the same shall be a charge on
the property on which the said nuisance
exists.
Proceedings
where nuisance caused by acts or defaults of two or more
persons
29.
Where a nuisance appears to be wholly or partly caused by the acts or defaults
of two or more persons, proceedings may be instituted
under the foregoing
provisions of this Part against any one of them, or all or any two or more of
them may be included in the same
proceedings and, subject to those provisions,
any one or more of the persons proceeded against may be ordered to abate the
nuisance,
so far as it appears to the court to be cause by his or their acts or
defaults, or may be prohibited from continuing any acts or
defaults which, in
the opinion of the court, contribute to the nuisance, or may be fined or
otherwise punished, notwithstanding that
the acts or defaults of any one of
those persons would not separately have caused a nuisance, and the costs may be
apportioned as
the court may deem fair and
reasonable.
Power
of
entry
30.-(1)
A local authority or any of its health officers, or medical officer or health
inspector or, on the request of the health officer,
medical officer, or health
inspector and on the order of a Magistrate, any police officer of or above the
rank of Inspector, shall
have the right to enter any building or
premises-
(a) for the purpose of examining as to the existence thereon of any nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under this Part at any hour by day and, in the case of a nuisance referred to in regulation 24(h) at any hour by day or by night, or, in the case of a nuisance arising in respect of any trade or business, at any time when that trade or business is in progress or is usually carried on;
(b) where a nuisance has been ascertained to exist or a nuisance order has been made under this Part, at any such hour as aforesaid until the nuisance is abated or the works ordered to be done are completed; and
(c) where a nuisance order has not been complied with or has been infringed, at all reasonable hours, including all hours during which business therein is in progress or is usually carried on, for the purpose of executing such order.
(2)
Any person who fails to give or refuses access to any health officer, health
inspector, medical officer or police officer authorised
under paragraph (1) if
such health officer, health inspector, medical officer or police officer
requests entry to any dwelling or
premises, or obstructs or hinders him in the
execution of his duties under this Part, shall be guilty of an offence and
liable on
conviction by a court to a fine of forty
dollars.
Meaning
of
"court"
31.
In this Part, "court" means a Magistrate's Court, or a local court constituted
under the Local Courts
Act.
Cap
19
PART V
OFFENSIVE TRADES
What
constitutes offensive
trade
32.-
(1) For the purposes of these Regulations the expression "offensive trade" means
any trade specified in the Second
Schedule.
(2) The Minister may
from time to time by notice amend the Second
Schedule.
Restriction
on establishment of offensive
trade
33.
- (1) Any person who, on any premises,
without the consent in writing of both the local authority and the Director,
establishes or
carries on an offensive trade shall be guilty of an offence and
liable to a fine of two hundred
dollars.
(2) Any consent given
under paragraph (1) to the establishment of an offensive trade may specify the
conditions subject to which,
and the area within which, such trade may be
carried on in order to prevent or diminish the offensiveness of the trade and to
safeguard
the public health.
(3)
For the purposes of this regulation, a trade shall be deemed to be established
not only when it is established in the first instance,
but also if and when
-
(a) it is transferred or extended from the premises on which it is for the time being carried on to other premises; or
(b) it is resumed on any premises on which it was previously carried on, after it has been discontinued for more than twelve months; or
(c) the buildings in which it is carried on are enlarged, but a change in the ownership or occupation of the premises on which the trade is carried on, or the rebuilding of the buildings in which it is carried on when they have been wholly or partially pulled down or burnt down, without any extension of the total floor space therein, shall not for those purposes be deemed to be an establishment of the trade.
PART VI
PREVENTION AND DESTRUCTION OF MOSQUITOES
Breeding
places to be
nuisances
34.
All collections of water, sewage, rubbish, refuse, ordure or other fluid or
solid substances in or around any dwelling which are
so situated as to be
reasonably capable or removal and which permit or facilitate the breeding or
multiplication of animal or vegetable
parasites of men or domestic animals or of
mosquitoes or other insects or of other agents which are known to carry such
parasites
or which may otherwise cause or facilitate the infection of men or
domestic animals by such parasites, shall be nuisances liable
to be dealt with
in the manner provided in Part
IV.
Premises to
be kept free from long grass and receptacles likely to facilitate breeding of
mosquitoes
35.-(1)
No person shall permit any premises or lands owed or occupied by him or over
which he has control and which are situated within
twenty yards of any dwelling,
public building, school, store, workshop or workplace to become overgrown with
long grass of such a
nature as to be likely to harbour
mosquitoes.
(2) The owner or
occupier of any premises shall keep any part of such premises which is within
fifty yards of any dwelling free from
all bottles, whole or broken, tins, boxes,
coconut husks, earthenware vessels, shells or any other articles which are kept
so that
they are likely to collect and retain water and facilitate the breeding
of mosquitoes.
(3) Any person who
fails to comply with the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an
offence and liable to a fine of forty
dollars.
Water
tanks, etc. to be covered and
screened
36.-(1)
It shall not be lawful for any person to keep, or for the owner or occupier of
any premises to allow to be kept thereon, any
collection of water in any barrel,
tub, bucket, tank or other vessel intended for the storage of water unless such
barrel, tub, bucket,
tank or other vessel is fitted with a sufficient cover and
is properly protected or screened to the satisfaction of a health inspector
or
health officer so as to prevent the ingress of mosquitoes into the
same.
(2) Any person who fails to
comply with the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and
liable to a fine of forty
dollars.
Septic
tanks, soakaways, etc. to be
screened
37.
The owner or occupier of any premises upon or attached to which is any cesspit,
cesspool, septic tank or soakaway shall cause such
cesspit, cesspool, septic
tank or soakaway to b properly protected or screened to the satisfaction of a
health inspector or health
officer so as to prevent the ingress of mosquitoes
into the same and, in default, he shall be guilty of a offence and liable to a
fine of forty
dollars.
Larvae,
etc. may be
destroyed
38.
Where any of the immature stages of the mosquito are found on any premises in
any collection of water in any cesspit, cesspool, septic
tank, soakaway, well,
pool, channel or drain, or in any barrel, drum, tub, bucket, tank or any other
vessel, or in any bottle, whole
or broken, tin, box, coconut husk, shell or any
other article, it shall be lawful for a health inspector, health officer or
sanitary
officer to take immediate steps to destroy any such 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.
Mere
presence of mosquito larvae an
offence
39.
Notwithstanding any provision of these
Regulations, the owner or occupier of any house or premises, or the owner or
person having
the charge of any vessel, or other article or receptacle in or
about which there is any collection of water found by a health inspector,
health
officer or sanitary officer to contain any of the immature stages of the
mosquito shall be guilty of an offence and liable
in respect of each and every
such collection of water to a fine of ten dollars.
PART VII
FILTHY OR VERMINOUS PREMISES OR ARTICLES AND VERMINOUS PERSONS
Cleansing
of filthy or verminous
premises
40.
- (1) Where, in any urban sanitary
district, a local authority is satisfied, upon receiving a certificate from a
health inspector
or health officer that any premises used for human
habitation-
(a) are in such a filthy or unwholesome condition as to be prejudicial to health; or
(b) are verminous,
the
local authority shall give notice to the owner or occupier of the premises
requiring him to take such steps to remedy the condition
of the premises by
cleansing, disinfecting and lime-washing them, as may be specified in the
notice, and in the case of verminous
premises the notice may require the removal
of wallpaper or the scraping of paint or other covering from the walls and the
taking
of such other steps, including the application of insecticide as may be
necessary for the purpose of destroying or removing
vermin.
(2) If a person on whom a
notice under his regulation is served fails to comply with the requirements
thereof, the local authority
may itself carry out the requirements and recover
from him the expenses reasonably incurred by it in so doing, and, without
prejudice
to the right of the local authority to exercise that power, he shall
be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of fifty
dollars.
Cleansing
or destruction of filthy or verminous
articles
41.
Where, in any urban sanitary district, a local authority is satisfied, upon
receiving a certificate from a health inspector or health
officer, that any
article in any premises -
(a) is in so filthy a condition as to render its cleansing, purification, or destruction necessary in order to prevent injury, or danger of injury, to the health of any person in the premises; or
(b) is verminous, or by reason of its having been used by, or having been in contact with, any verminous person, is likely to be verminous,
the
local authority shall cause that article to be cleansed purified, disinfected,
disinfested or destroyed, as the case may require,
and, if necessary for that
purpose, to be removed from the premises at the expense of the owner of such
article.
Cleansing
of verminous persons and their
clothing
42.-(1)
Upon the application of any person in any urban sanitary district, a medical
officer, the Chief Health Inspector or a local
authority may take or direct to
be taken such measures as are, in his or its opinion, necessary to free such
person and his clothing
from
vermin.
(2) Where, in any urban
sanitary district, a medical officer, the Chief Health Inspector or a local
authority is satisfied upon receiving
a certificate from a health inspector or
health officer that any person, or the clothing of any person, is verminous,
then, if that
person consents, the Chief Health Inspector or the local
authority, as the case may be, may cause such person to be removed to a
hospital, clinic, or cleansing station, where such measures may be taken as may
be necessary to free him and his clothing from
vermin.
(3) If such person does
not so consent, the medical officer, the Chief Health Inspector or the local
authority may apply to a Magistrate,
and the Magistrate, if satisfied that it is
necessary that such person or the clothing of such person should be cleansed,
may make
an order for his removal to a hospital, clinic or cleansing station and
for his detention therein for such period and subject to
such conditions as may
be specified in the order.
(4) The
cleansing of females under this section shall be carried out only by a medical
practitioner in the presence of a woman, or
by a woman duly authorised by a
medical officer.
(5) Any consent
required to be given for the purposes of this regulation may, in the case of a
person under the age of sixteen years,
be given on his behalf by his parent or
guardian.
PART VIII
PROVISION AND PROTECTION OF WATER SUPPLIES
Houses
to be provided with water
supply
43.
Within an urban sanitary district, every building intended for human habitation
shall be provided within its cartilage with a proper
and sufficient supply of
wholesome water for the domestic use of the inhabitants to the satisfaction of
the local
authority.
Local
authority may enforce provision of water
supply
44.
If a building referred to in regulation 43 appears to the local authority by the
report of a health inspector or health officer
to be without a proper and
sufficient supply of wholesome water, the local authority shall by written
notice require the owner or
occupier of the building within a reasonable time
therein specified to provide a proper and sufficient supply of wholesome
water.
Powers
of
sampling
45.
A health inspector or health officer may enter upon any land or premises at any
time during the day for the purpose of taking water
samples for examination from
any well, stream, reservoir, spring, tap, faucet, pump, storage tank, or other
source of water supply
and the owner or occupier of the land or premises shall
afford such assistance and information in connection with the water supply
as
the health inspector or health officer may
require.
In
default, local authority may order building be not
occupied
46.-(1)
In default of compliance with a notice issued under regulation 44, the local
authority may at the expiration of the time specified
in the notice direct that
after a specified time the building be not occupied unless and until the notice
be complied with.
(2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (1), any person who fails to
comply with a notice issued under regulation 44 shall
be guilty of an offence
and liable to a fine of forty
dollars.
Power
to close or restrict use of water from polluted source of
supply
47.
If a local authority is satisfied upon a report from a heal inspector or health
officer that the water in or obtained from any well,
spring, stream, reservoir,
tank, or other source of supply, being water which is, or is likely to be, used
for domestic purposes,
or in the preparation of food or drink for human
consumption, is or is likely to become, so polluted as to be prejudicial to
health,
the local authority may direct the owner or occupier of the premises to
which the source of water supply belongs or any other person
having control
thereof to close or cut off the source of supply, either permanently or
temporarily, as the case may be, or may direct
that the water therefrom be use
for certain purposes only, or may make such other order as appears to the local
authority to be necessary
to prevent injury or danger to the health of persons
using the water or consuming food or drink prepared therewith or
therefrom.
Tanks,
etc. to be kept
clean
48.
Every occupier of premises on which is situated any tank, cistern or other
receptacle for the collection or storage of water used
or likely to be used by
man for drinking or domestic purposes or for manufacturing drink for the use of
man shall cause such tank,
cistern or other receptacle to be maintained at all
times in a clean condition and protected from contamination to the satisfaction
of a health inspector, health officer or sanitary
officer.
Pollution
of water
supply
49.-(1)
Every person who knowingly and wilfully in any way defiles or pollutes any
water-course, stream, lake, pond, or reservoir shall
be guilty of an offence and
liable to a fine of forty
dollars.
(2) Any person who
wilfully injures or unlawfully interferes with any pump, cock, valve, water
pipe, cistern, reservoir or storage
tank maintained in whole or in part by the
Government or a local authority, whether or not such pump, cock, valve, water
pipe, cistern,
reservoir or storage tank or any part thereof respectively is
situated on land or premises the property of such person, shall be
guilty of an
offence and liable to a fine of forty dollars.
PART IX
PROVISIONS RELATING TO VESSELS
Interpretation
50.
In this Part -
"vessel" shall not include a vessel under the command or charge of any officer on the active list bearing Her Majesty's Commission in the Royal Navy or a vessel belonging to any Commonwealth or foreign government; and
"nuisance" means any matter or circumstances rendering any vessel or part thereof injurious to the public health or to the health of the passengers or crew of such vessel.
Power
to enter and inspect
vessels
51.-(1)
It shall be lawful at any time between sunrise and sunset for a health officer
or health inspector to enter and inspect any
vessel lying in port, harbour,
river, or other water within Solomon Islands and, if admittance be refused, to
use such reasonable
force as may be necessary for effecting such
entry.
(2) Any master of any such
vessel who shall refuse such admission or obstruct, hinder or prevent such
health officer or health inspector
from making such entry and inspection shall
be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one hundred
dollars.
Removal
of
nuisance
52.
It shall be lawful for a health inspector or health officer in any case where
the existence of a nuisance is ascertained to his
satisfaction to make an order
in writing under his hand for the removal or discontinuance of such nuisance by
the master of any vessel
where such nuisance shall exist within such reasonable
hours to be named in such order as he shall think
fit.
What the
order may
require
53.-(1)
An order made under the provisions of regulation 52 may require the person on
whom it is made to do such works or acts as are
necessary to remove the nuisance
complained of in such manner and within such time as shall be specified in the
order and, if the
health inspector or health officer is of the opinion that such
or the like nuisance is likely to recur, he may further prohibit the
recurrence
of it and direct the execution of such works as may be necessary in his opinion
to prevent such recurrence.
(2) If
such order be not complied with to the satisfaction of the health inspector or
health officer and within the time limited by
such order, the person on whom
such order shall have been made shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a
fine of one hundred
dollars.
Power
of health inspector or health officer to execute
order
54.
In any case of non-compliance with any such order it shall be lawful for a
health inspector or health officer together with such
assistants as he may deem
necessary, from time to time, and forcibly if need be, to enter any vessel in
respect of which such order
has been made and to remove or remedy the nuisance
and to do whatever may be necessary in execution of such order for removing or
remedying and the prevention of the continuance of such nuisance, and the health
inspector or health officer may recover from the
master or owner of any such
vessel the expenses incurred by him in removing or remedying and in preventing
the continuance of such
nuisance.
Application
of Parts III and VII to
vessels
55.-(1)
For the purposes of the provisions of Parts III and VII, any vessel lying in any
port, harbour, river or other water within
or adjoining the district of a local
authority shall be subject to the jurisdiction of that authority in the same
manner as if were
a dwelling or other building within such
district.
(2) The master of any
such vessel shall be deemed for the purposes of the said provisions to be the
occupier.
PART X
BUILDINGS AND HOUSING
Local
authorities to prevent or remedy danger to health from unsuitable
dwellings
56.
It shall be the duty of every local authority to 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 erection or occupation
of unhealthy dwellings or buildings, or the
erection of dwellings or buildings on unhealthy sites or on sites of
insufficient extent,
or from overcrowding, or from the construction, condition
or manner of use of any factory or trade premises, and to take proceedings
against any person causing or responsible for the continuance of any such
condition.
Building
lots to be filled in and
drained
57.
No dwelling or building shall be erected on any area of land in any urban
sanitary district unless and until the owner or lessee
thereof has filled in and
levelled the area to the satisfaction of the local authority and taken such
measures for the general drainage
of the area as may be required by the local
authority.
Notice
to be given and plans
furnished
58.-(1)
Any owner or lessee intending to utilise any area of land in an urban sanitary
district for the erection of a dwelling or building
or the extension or
alteration of any dwelling or building shall give notice accordingly in writing
to the local authority and shall,
together with the notice, furnish a plan of
the propose dwelling or building or of such extension or alteration, together
with a
plan of the site on which it is proposed to erect or make such dwelling,
building, extension or alteration, showing the access thereto
and the course of
the proposed drainage for the approval of the local authority, and shall furnish
the local authority with information
concerning materials to be used in the
construction of and such other information as it may require in connection with
the proposed
erection or making of such dwelling, building, extension or
alteration.
(2) Any person who
fails to comply with the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an
offence and liable to a fine of fifty
dollars.
Buildings
constructed of materials which are short-lived or otherwise unsuitable for use
in permanent
buildings
59.-(1)
Where, in accordance with regulation 58, plans are deposited with a local
authority, showing that it is proposed to construct
a dwelling or building of
materials which are, in the absence of special care, liable to rapid
deterioration, or are otherwise, in
the opinion of the local authority,
unsuitable for use in the construction of permanent buildings, the local
authority may -
(a) reject the plans; or
(b) in passing the plans, fix a period on the expiration of which the building must be removed and impose, with respect to the use of the building, such reasonable conditions, if any, as, having regard to the nature of the materials used in its construction, it deems appropriate.
(2)
If a building in respect of which plans ought under regulation 58 to have been
deposited, but have not been deposited, appears
to the local authority to be
constructed of such materials as aforesaid, the local authority, without
prejudice to its right to take
proceedings for an offence under regulation 58,
may fix a period on the expiration of which the building must be removed, and,
if
it thinks fit, impose such conditions with respect to the use of the building
as might have been imposed under paragraph (1) upon
the passing of plans for the
building and, where it fixes such a period, shall forthwith give notice thereof,
and of any conditions
imposed, to the owner of the
building.
(3) The owner of any
building in respect of which a period has been fixed under this section shall,
on the expiration of that period,
remove the building, and, if he fails to do
so, the local authority may remove it and may recover from him the expenses
reasonably
incurred by it in so doing, and, without prejudice to the right of
the local authority to exercise that power, he shall be guilty
of an offence and
liable to a fine of fifty
dollars.
(4) Any person who uses a
building in contravention of any condition imposed under this regulation, or who
permits such building to
be so used, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to
a fine of fifty dollars.
(5) The
provisions of this regulation shall apply in relation to any extension of an
existing building as they apply in relation to
a new
building.
Building
sites not to be filled in with refuse
matter
60.-(1)
Except with the written permission of a local authority, it shall not be lawful
in any urban sanitary district to fill up or
to raise the level of any land to
be used as a building site with refuse matter containing or impregnated with
faecal animal or vegetable
matter.
(2) It shall not be lawful
to erect any new building on any ground which has been filled up with any such
refuse matter as aforesaid
or upon which it has been deposited unless and until
the refuse matter shall have been properly removed by excavation or otherwise
or
shall have been rendered or shall have become innocuous to the satisfaction of
the local
authority.
Means
of access to house for removal of
refuse
61.-(1)
Where plans for the erection or extension of a building are, in accordance with
regulation 58, deposited with a local authority,
the local authority shall
reject the plans, unless it is shown to it that satisfactory means of access
from the house to a street
for the purpose of the removal of refuse will be
provided.
(2) Any question arising
under paragraph (1) between a local authority and the person by whom, or on
whose behalf, plans are deposited
as to whether any means of access proposed to
be provided can be provided and ought to be accepted by the authority as
satisfactory
may on the application of that person t determined by a
Magistrate.
(3) It shall be
unlawful for any person, except with the consent of the local authority, to
close or obstruct the means of access
by which refuse is removed from any house,
and the local authority, in giving its consent, may impose such conditions as it
thinks
fit with respect to the improvement of any alternative means of access,
or the substitution of other means of
access.
(4) Any person who
contravenes the provisions of paragraph (3) shall be guilty of an offence and
liable to a fine of fifty
dollars.
Examinations
of
premises
62.
The local authority or any of its officers, or a health inspector may enter any
building or premises for the purpose of examining
as to the existence of any
nuisance therein at all reasonable times, and the local authority or any of its
officers may if necessary
open up the ground of such 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 said
premises:
Provided that if no
nuisance is found to exist the local authority shall restore the premises at its
own
expense.
Closing
orders
63.-(1)
In any urban sanitary district, where a medical officer, health inspector or
health officer serves notice in writing on a local
authority that any dwelling
or other building within its district is unfit or unsafe for human habitation or
occupation, such local
authority may by an order in writing, hereinafter
referred to as a closing order, declare that such dwelling or building or part
thereof is not fit for human habitation or occupation and direct that such
dwelling or building or part thereof shall not after the
time specified in such
order be inhabited or occupied by any
person.
(2) Such order may provide
that such direction shall not have effect if the repairs or alterations
specified therein are made in the
dwelling or building so as to render it fit
for human habitation or occupation to the satisfaction of the local
authority.
(3) Such order shall be
served on the owner or occupier of the dwelling or building or, if neither the
owner nor the occupier can
be found, such service may be effected by affixing a
copy of such order on a conspicuous part of such dwelling or
building.
Notice
of closing
order
64.
Where a closing order has been made in respect of a dwelling or building, the
local authority shall serve a notice of the order on
every occupying tenant of
the dwelling or building and within such period as is specified in the notice,
not being less than seven
days after the service of the notice, the order shall
be obeyed by him and he and his family shall cease to inhabit the dwelling
or
building, and in default he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine
of fifty
dollars.
Notice
of
demolition
65.
Where a closing order has been made in respect of any dwelling or building and
has not been determined by any subsequent order,
then the local authority, if of
opinion that the dwelling or building has not been rendered fit for human
habitation or occupation
and if the necessary steps are not being taken to
render it so fit, shall cause notice to be served on the owner of the dwelling
or building that it considers it expedient to order the demolition of the
dwelling or building or any part thereof, and such notice
shall specify a time
and place appointed by the local authority for further consideration of the
matter, not being less than one
month after service of the notice, and any owner
of the dwelling or building shall be at liberty to attend and state his
objections
to the
demolition.
Demolition
order
66.
If upon consideration of any objections made under regulation 65, the local
authority decides it is expedient so to do, then, unless
the owner undertakes
forthwith to execute the work necessary to render the dwelling or building fit
for human habitation or occupation,
the local authority shall order the
demolition of the dwelling or building or any part
thereof.
Execution
of work by
owner
67.
If the owner undertakes to execute the works necessary render the dwelling or
building fit for human habitation, the local authority
may order the execution
of the works within such reasonable time as is specified in the order and if the
works are not completed
within the time or any extended time allowed by the
local authority, the local authority shall order the demolition of the said
dwelling
or building or any part
thereof.
Removal
of
buildings
68.
Where an order for the demolition of a dwelling or building or any part thereof
has been given, the owner thereof shall, within three
months after service of
the order, proceed to take down and remove the said dwelling or building or the
said part thereof and, if
the owner fails therein the local authority shall
proceed at the risk and expense of the owner to take down and remove the same
and
shall sell the material and, after deducting the expenses incidental to such
taking down and removal, shall pay over the balance,
if any, to the
owner:
Provided that if such
proceeds do not cover the expenses the amount of the deficiency may be recovered
by the local authority from
the
owner.
Appeal
against
order
69.
Any person aggrieved by an order of the local authority under the provisions of
regulations 66 or 67 may within ten days of the
service of such order require by
summons the local authority to appear before a Magistrate to show cause why the
order should not
be set
aside.
Abatement
of
overcrowding
70.-(1)
Any dwelling or premises used for the purpose of human habitation or any part of
any such dwelling or premises which is or are
so overcrowded as to be dangerous
or injuries to the health of the inmates thereof, whether members of the same
family or not, shall
be a nuisance which may be dealt with under the provisions
of Part IV.
(2) In considering for
the purpose of any proceedings whether any premises used for human habitation
which are also use as a workplace
are a nuisance by reason of overcrowding, the
court shall have regard to the circumstances in which they are used as such
workplace.
Regulations
in relation to
overcrowding.
71.
Without prejudice to the provisions of
regulation 70, the Minister may make regulations in relation to overcrowding or
protection
of health prescribing or providing for-
(a) the control of the number of persons who may at one time occupy, work in or use any premises or any part of any premises;
(b) the separation of the sexes occupying the same premises or the same part of any premises for the purpose of habitation;
(c) the control (including prohibition) of the use of any specified purposes of any premises or any part of any premises;
(d) the proper access of light and ventilation to premises or any part of any premises;
(e) the control (including prohibition) of the erection, alteration or maintenance of verandahs, balconies, cubicles, partitions, bunks, beds or other facilities provided for the accommodation of persons in any premises or part of any premises used for human habitation.
Basements
and
cellars
72.-
(1) No basement or cellar shall be constructed or occupied, or caused to be
constructed or occupied, as a dwelling or for any other
purpose without the
prior approval in writing of the Chief Health
Inspector.
(2) Any person who
contravenes the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and
liable to a fine of fifty
dollars.
Nuisances
73.
Any dwelling or premises which is or are
so defective, damp or dilapidated, or so deficient in lighting or ventilation as
to be, in
the opinion of a medical officer, health inspector, or officer,
injurious or dangerous to health, in any urban sanitary district,
shall be
deemed to be a nuisance liable to be dealt with in the manner provided in Part
IV.
PART XI
DRAINAGE AND SANITATION
Construction,
repair and maintenance of public sewers and
drains
74.
In every urban sanitary district, the local authority shall be responsible for
causing the construction, repair and maintenance
of all public sewers or public
drains within its district, and may alter or disconnect the connection therewith
of any private sewer
or private
drain:
Provided that no local
authority shall be responsible for the repair and maintenance of public sewers
or public drains vested in the
Government unless the Minister by notice from
time to time otherwise
directs.
Provision
of public sewers and sewage disposal
works
75.
A local authority may within its district -
(a) construct a public sewer-
(i) in, under or over any street, or under any cellar or vault below any street; and
(ii) in, on or over any land acquired, or lawfully appropriated, for the purpose, not forming part of a street;
(b) construct sewage disposal works on any land acquired, or lawfully appropriated, for the purpose;
(c) by agreement acquire, whether by way of purchase, lease, or otherwise, any sewer or sewage disposal works, or the right to use any sewer or sewage disposal works.
Power
of local authority to agree to adopt sewer or drain or sewage disposal works at
future
date
76.-(1)
A local authority may agree with any person constructing, or proposing to
construct, a sewer or sewage disposal works that,
if the sewer or works is or
are constructed in accordance with the terms of the agreement, the local
authority will upon the completion
of the work, or at some specified date, or on
the happening of some future event, declare the sewer or works to be vested in
it,
and any such agreement shall be enforceable against the local authority by
the owner or occupier for the time being of any premises
served by the sewer or
works.
(2) The provisions of
paragraph (1) shall apply also in relation to drains, but it shall be a
condition of any agreement made under
those provisions with respect to a drain
that the declaration shall not be made before the drain has become a
sewer.
Power of
local authority to require proposed sewer or drain to be so constructed as to
form part of general
system
77.-
(1) Where a person proposes to construct a drain or sewer, the local authority
may, if it considers that the proposed drain or sewer
is, or is likely to be,
needed to form part of a general sewage system which is provided or purposes to
provide, require him to construct
the drain or sewer in a manner differing, as
regards material or size of pipes, depth, fall, direction or outfall, or
otherwise,
from the manner in which he proposes or could otherwise be required
by it, to construct such drain or sewer, and it shall be his
duty to comply with
the requirements of the local
authority:
Provided that if such
person is aggrieved by the requirements of the local authority, he may within
twenty-eight days appeal to a
Magistrate and the Magistrate may either disallow
the requirements or allow them with or without
modification.
(2) Any local
authority which exercises the powers conferred upon it by this regulation shall
repay to the person constructing the
drain or sewer the extra expenses
reasonably incurred by such person in complying with its requirements and, until
the drain or sewer
becomes a public sewer, it shall also from time to time repay
to him so much of any expenses reasonably incurred by him in repairing
or
maintaining such drain or sewer as may be attributed to its requirements having
been made and complied with, and, if any question
arises as to the amount of any
payment to be made to him under this regulation, that question may on his
application be determined
by a
Magistrate.
(3) If any person, who
under this regulation has been required by a local authority to construct a
drain or sewer in a particular
manner, constructs it otherwise than in
accordance with the requirements of the local authority, he shall be guilty of
an offence
and liable to a fine of one hundred dollars but without prejudice to
the right of the local authority to avail itself of any other
remedy.
Power
of local authority to alter or close public
sewers
78.
A local authority may alter the size or course of any public sewer vested in it,
or may discontinue and prohibit the use of any such
public sewer, either
entirely, or for the purpose of foul water drainage, or for the purpose of
surface water drainage, but, before
any person who is lawfully using the sewer
for any purpose is deprived by the local authority of the use of the sewer for
that purpose,
it shall provide a sewer equally effective for the use of such
person for that purpose and shall at its expense carry out any work
necessary to
make his drains or sewers communicate with the sewer so
provided.
Buildings
not to be erected over sewers or drains without consent of local
authority
79.-(1)
Where plans of a dwelling or building or of an extension of a dwelling or
building are, in accordance with regulation 58, deposited
with a local
authority, and it is proposed to erect the dwelling, building or extension, as
the case may be, over any sewer or drain,
the local authority shall reject the
plans, unless it is satisfied that in the circumstances of the particular case
it may properly
consent to the erection of the proposed dwelling, building or
extension, either unconditionally or subject to compliance with any
requirements
specified in its consent.
(2) Any
question arising under paragraph (1) between a local authority and the person by
whom or on whose behalf plans are deposited
as to whether the site on which it
is proposed to erect a dwelling or building, or an extension of a dwelling or
building is over
any such sewer or drain as aforesaid, or whether, and if so
upon what conditions, a consent ought to be given by the local authority,
may on
the application of that person be determined by a
Magistrate.
Protection
of public sewers and
drain
80.-(1)
Any person who -
(a) places or throws any solid matter, mud or refuse (except such as is contained in ordinary house sewage) in or into any public sewer or public drain or any sewer; drain, inlet or other drainage work communicating with any public sewer or public drain, or over any grate communicating with any public sewer or public drain;
(b) causes or knowingly permits any such matter, mud or refuse to be placed or thrown, or to fall, or to be carried, in or into any public sewer or public drain or over any such grate;
(c) causes or knowingly permits any such matter, mud or refuse to be placed in such a position as to be liable to fall or be carried as aforesaid;
(d) discharges into any public sewer or public drain or into any sewer or drain which, not being a public sewer or public drain, communicates therewith, any chemicals, oil, petroleum or any manufacturing, trade or other refuse (not included as aforesaid) or any waste steam, or any heated liquid, which, either alone or in combination with other matter in any sewer or drain, causes or may cause nuisance or danger to persons entering or being in, or near to, any public sewer or public drain or danger to any public sewer or public drain itself; or
(e) wilfully, except with the permission in writing of the local authority, or negligently damages, alters, disconnects or otherwise interferes with any public sewer or public drain or any connection therewith,
shall
be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of fifty
dollars.
(2) In this regulation
"petroleum" has the meaning ascribed to it in section 2 of the Petroleum
Act.
Cap
81
Application
by owners or occupiers to drain into public
sewers
81.-(1)
The owner or occupier of any premises, or the owner of any private sewer, within
the district of a local authority, may apply
to the local authority for
permission to have his drains or sewer made to communicate with a public sewer
of that local authority,
and thereby to discharge foul water and surface water
from those premises or that private
sewer.
(2) A person making
application under paragraph (1) shall furnish the local authority with such
information concerning his drains
or sewer as the local authority may require,
and, at any time within twenty-one days after receipt thereof, the local
authority may
by notice to him in writing refuse to permit the communication to
be made if it appears to the local authority that the mode of construction
or
condition of the drains or sewer is such that the making of the communication
would be prejudicial to its sewerage system, and
for the purpose of examining
the mode of construction and condition of the drains or sewer, it may, if
necessary, require them to
be laid open for
inspection:
Provided that any
question arising under this subsection between the local authority and the
applicant as to the reasonableness of
any such requirement of the local
authority, or of its refusal to permit the communication to be made, may on the
application of
that person be determined by a
Magistrate.
(3) Where the local
authority does not under regulation 82 elect itself to make the communication,
the person making it shall, before
commencing the work, give reasonable notice
to any person directed by the local authority to superintend the execution of
the work
and afford him all reasonable facilities for superintending the
execution thereof.
(4) Any person
causing a drain or sewer to communicate with a public sewer without the written
permission of the local authority,
or without complying with or in contravention
of any of the provisions of this regulation, or before the expiration of the
period
mentioned in paragraph (2), shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a
fine of one hundred dollars and, whether proceedings have
or have not been taken
by it in respect of that offence, the local authority may close any
communication made in contravention of
any of those provisions, and recover from
the offender any expenses reasonably incurred by it in so
doing.
Right of
local authority to undertake the making of communications with public
sewers
82.-(1)
Where, under regulation 81, any person applies to a local authority for
permission to have his drains or sewer made to communicate
with a public sewer
of that local authority, the local authority may, within fourteen days after
receipt of the application, or,
if any question arising under that section
requires to be determined by a Magistrate, within fourteen days after decision
of that
question, give notice to that person that it intends itself to make the
communication, and if, after such notice has been given to
him, he proceeds
himself to make the communication, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable
to a fine of one hundred
dollars.
(2) Where a local
authority has given notice under paragraph (1), it shall not be obligatory on it
to make the communication until
the cost of the work, as estimated by a
surveyor, health officer or health inspector, has been paid to it, or security
for payment
has been given to its
satisfaction.
(3) If any payment
so made to the local authority exceeds the expenses reasonably incurred by it in
the execution of the work, the
excess shall be repaid by it and, if and so far
as those expenses are not covered by the payment, if any, made to it, it may
recover
the expenses, or the balance thereof from the person for whom the work
was done.
(4) For the purposes of
this regulation, the making of the communication between a drain or private
sewer and a public sewer includes
all such work as involves the breaking open of
a
street.
Existing
buildings to be provided with latrines,
etc
83.
In every urban sanitary district, every building intended for human occupation
shall be provided with a sufficient latrine and dustbin
and with proper drains
for the efficient carrying off of storm and slop water to the satisfaction of
the local authority:
Provided that
if in the opinion of the local authority, having regard to the number and
description of the persons occupying or using
such building, more than one such
latrine or dustbin should be provided, the local authority may by written notice
require the owner
or occupier of the building within a reasonable time therein
specified to provide such additional number of latrines and dustbins
or either
of them as the case may
require.
New
buildings to be provided with latrines,
etc
84.
In every urban sanitary district, every such building erected or re-built or any
building converted into a dwelling house shall
be provided with a sufficient
latrine and dustbin and with proper drains for the efficient carrying off of
storm water and slop water
to the satisfaction of the local
authority.
When
latrine or dustbin
sufficient
85.
A latrine or dustbin shall not be deemed to be sufficient within the meaning of
these Regulations unless it be of such type or description
and be furnished with
such coverings, fittings and connections as may be required by these
Regulation.
Public
latrines and
dustbins
86.
In every urban sanitary district, the local authority shall provide and maintain
in proper and convenient situations in its district
sufficient latrines and
dustbins for the public
use.
Obligation
to provide
latrines
87.-(1)
Where it appears to a local authority that any premises, or any part of any
premises, whether such premises were constructed
before or after 1st August
1980, are without, or without sufficient, latrine accommodation or that the
latrine accommodation provided
therein is ineffective or of a type which is
unsuitable having regard to the circumstances of the case, the local authority
may cause
a notice to be served upon the owner of such premises or, where the
owner is absent from Solomon Islands or cannot be readily found
or ascertained
by the local authority or is under disability, upon the occupier thereof,
requiring him, within such time as shall
be specified in the notice, to provide
such number of latrines, or latrines of such type, or to do such other thing to
provide effective
and sufficient latrine accommodation, as may be specified in
the notice.
(2) If the person upon
whom a notice is served under paragraph (1) fails to comply with any of the
requirements thereof-
(a) such person shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one hundred dollars; and
(b) the local authority may execute, or cause to be executed, such work as may be necessary to satisfy the requirements of such notice, and may recover any expenses thereby incurred from such person.
(3)
If any person considers himself aggrieved by any notice served upon him under
paragraph (1) or by any act done by or on behalf
of the local authority under
this regulation, he may, within thirty days after the service of such notice or
doing of such act, as
the case may be, appeal to a Magistrate and no offence
shall be deemed to have been committed under paragraph (2) until after such
appeal be abandoned or
dismissed.
Prevention
of nuisances from septic tanks,
etc
88.
Any person who causes, or suffers or permits any person to cause, any septic
tank, cesspool, trap, siphon or any sanitary convenience
to be a nuisance or
injurious or dangerous to health by wilfully destroying or damaging, or by
otherwise interfering with, or by
improperly using, the same or any water
supply, apparatus, pipe or work connected therewith, shall be guilty of an
offence and liable
to a fine of one hundred
dollars.
Removal
or alteration of septic tanks,
etc
89.-(1)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Part IV, if any septic tank, cesspool, trap,
siphon or any sanitary convenience is, or has
been, so constructed, or is so
situated, as to be, or to be likely to be, a nuisance or offensive to public
decency, the local authority
may, whether the same was constructed before or
after 1st August 1980, cause a notice to be served upon the owner thereof, or
where
the owner is absent from Solomon Islands or cannot be readily found or
ascertained by the local authority or is under disability,
upon the occupier of
the premises in question, requiring him, within such time as may be specified in
the notice, to remove, reconstruct,
screen or otherwise alter such septic tank,
cesspool, trap, siphon or sanitary convenience, as the case may be, in such
manner as
to abate the nuisance or to remove the offence against public decency
or the likelihood thereof.
(2) If
the person upon whom a notice is served under paragraph (1) fails to comply with
any of the requirements thereof-
(a) such person shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one hundred dollars; and
(b) the local authority may execute, or cause to be executed, such work as may be necessary to satisfy the requirements of such notice, and may recover any expenses thereby incurred from such person.
(3)
If any person considers himself aggrieved by any notice served upon him under
paragraph (1) or by any act done by or on behalf
of the local authority under
this section, he may, within thirty days after the service upon him of the
notice or the doing of the
act, as the case may be, appeal to a Magistrate and
the Magistrate may make such order as may appear to him to be just, having
regard
to all the
circumstances.
Examination
of septic tanks etc. by local
authority
90.-(1)
The local authority may examine any of the following works, that is to say, any
septic tank, cesspool, trap, siphon or sanitary
convenience, or any water
supply, apparatus, pipe or work connected therewith, upon any premises, and for
that purpose may cause
the ground to be opened in any place which may appear to
the local authority necessary, doing as little damage as may
be.
(2) If any work referred to in
paragraph (1) is found on examination to be in proper order, the local authority
shall cause the work
to be reinstated and made good as soon as may be and shall
defray the expenses of the examination and the reinstating and making
good of
the work, but, if on examination any such work is found not to be in proper
order, the local authority may -
(a) recover from the owner of the premises, or, where the owner is absent from Solomon Islands or cannot be readily found or ascertained by the local authority or is under disability, from the occupier thereof, the expenses of such examination; and
(b) cause a notice to be served upon the owner of such premises or, in the circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (a), the occupier thereof requiring him to repair or otherwise put in good order such work within such time as may be specified in the notice.
(3)
If the person upon whom a notice is served under paragraph
(2)(b)
fails to comply with any of the requirements thereof -
(a) such person shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one hundred dollars; and
(b) the local authority may execute, or cause to be executed, any work necessary to satisfy the requirements of such notice, and may recover any expenses thereby incurred from such person.
(4)
If any person considers himself aggrieved by any notice served upon him under
paragraph
(2)(b)
or by any act done by or on behalf of the local authority under this regulation,
he may, within fourteen days after the service upon
him of the notice or the
doing of the act, as the case may be, appeal to a Magistrate, and the Magistrate
may make such order as
may appear to h to be just having regard to all the
circumstances.
(5) Notwithstanding
any appeal under paragraph (4), the lot authority may proceed with and carry out
any work which, in the opinion
of the local authority, ought to be carried out
under this section, but, until such appeal is abandoned or determined, no sum of
money in respect of any such work shall be recoverable from any person party to
such
appeal.
Sanitary
conveniences used in
common
91.
The following provisions shall have effect in relation any sanitary convenience
used in common by the occupiers of two or more premises
or by other persons:
-
(a) any person who injures or improperly fouls any such sanitary convenience or anything used in connection therewith shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of on hundred dollars;
(b) where any such sanitary convenience, or the approaches thereto, or the walls, floors, seats or fitting thereof, is or are, in the opinion of the local authority, in such a state as to be a nuisance for want of proper cleansing, such persons having the use of such sanitary convenience in common as may be in default, or, in the absence of proof satisfactory to a Magistrate as to which of such persons is in default, each of such persons, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one hundred dollars.
Nuisances
92.
Any dwelling or premises which is or are not provided with or is or are so
situated that they cannot be provided with sanitary accommodation
to the
satisfaction of a medical officer, health inspector or health officer, in any
urban sanitary district, shall be deemed to
be a nuisance liable to be dealt
with in the manner provided in Part
IV.
Restrictions
on depositing refuse on beach or
foreshore
93.
Except with the written permission of the local authority, no person shall throw
or deposit or cause to be thrown or deposited on
any beach or foreshore or into
any harbour, estuary or creek, in any urban sanitary district, any box, bottle,
tin, paper, or other
refuse or matter capable of floating or which is likely to
be washed up within the area of the urban sanitary
district.
Refuse,
etc. not to be
deposited
in watercourses in
urban sanitary
districts
94.
No person shall throw, empty or deposit, or cause to be thrown, emptied or
deposited, into any part of any river, stream, creek
or other watercourse which
flows through or into any part of an urban sanitary district, any rubbish,
refuse, waste products, raw
sewage, or other noxious or offensive
matter:
Provided that a local
authority may grant permission in writing to any person to discharge wastewater
or sewage effluent from a treatment
installation into such a watercourse if it
is satisfied that the nature of the discharge is such that it will not give rise
to conditions
prejudicial to health or a nuisance, and that the watercourse is
suitable to receive such
discharge.
Sewage
not to be discharged into
watercourse
95.
No person shall erect or cause to be erected any latrine over any river, stream,
creek or other watercourse which flows into or
through any urban sanitary
district, and no person shall empty or discharge or cause to be emptied or
discharged any raw sewage in
any such watercourse, without the written
permission of the local
authority.
Interference
with dustbins and refuse tips
prohibited
96.
No person shall, without lawful authority or excuse, sort over, disturb, remove
or otherwise interfere with -
(a) the contents of any dustbin placed in any street for the purpose of its contents being removed by the local authority; or
(b) refuse deposited upon any refuse tip or other place provided by the local authority for the deposit of refuse.
Penalty
97.
Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulations 93, 94, 95 or 96 shall
be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one
hundred
dollars.
PART XII
FOOD AND DRUGS
Offences
in connection with preparation and sale of adulterated food and
drugs
98.-(1)
No person shall add any substance to food, use any substance as an ingredient in
the preparation of food, abstract any constituent
from food, or subject food to
any other process or treatment, so as (in any such case) to render the food
injurious to health, with
intent that the food shall be sold for human
consumption in that state.
(2) No
person shall add any substance to, or abstract any constituent from, a drug so
as to affect injuriously the quality, constitution
or potency of the drug, with
intent that the drug shall be sold in that
state.
(3) Subject to the
provisions of this regulation, no person shall -
(a) sell for human consumption, offer, expos or advertise for sale for human consumption, or have in his possession for the purpose of such sale, any food rendered injurious to health by any operation described in paragraph (1); or
(b) sell, offer, expose or advertise for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale, any drug injuriously affected in its quality, constitution or potency by means of any operation described in paragraph (2).
(4)
Any person who contravenes any of the provision of paragraphs (1), (2) or (3)
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine
of two hundred
dollars.
(5) In determining for
the purposes of this Part whether an article of food is injurious to health,
regard shall be had not only to
the probable effect of that article on the
health of a person consuming it, but also to the probable cumulative effect of
articles
of substantially the same composition on the health of a person
consuming such articles in ordinary
quantities.
(6) In any proceedings
for an offence under the provisions of subsection (4) consisting of the
advertisement for sale of any food
or drug, it shall be a defence for the person
charged to prove that, being a person whose business it is to publish, or
arrange for
the publication of, advertisements, he received the advertisement
for publication in the ordinary course of
business.
General
protection for purchasers of food and
drugs
99.-(1)
If any person sells to the prejudice of a purchaser any food or drug which is
not of the nature, or not of the substance, or not
of the quality, of the food
or drug demanded by the purchaser, he shall, subject to the provisions of
regulation 100, be guilty of
an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred
dollars.
(2) Without prejudice to
the provisions of paragraph (1), any person who for the purpose of sale keeps in
any container any liquid
which is not of the nature, or not of the substance, or
not of the quality which, by reason of the labelling or other marking of
such
container, it appears to be, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine
of two hundred dollars.
(3) In any
proceedings for an offence under paragraph (1), it shall not be a defence to
allege that the purchaser bought for analysis
or examination and therefore was
not prejudiced.
(4) In this
regulation, save in so far as it relates to drugs, any reference to sale shall
be construed as a reference to sale for
human
consumption.
Defences
available in proceedings under regulation
99
100.-(1)
In any proceedings under regulation 99 for an offence consisting of the sale of
food to which any substance has been added,
or in the preparation of which any
substance has been used as an ingredient, or from which any constituent has been
abstracted, or
which has been subjected to any other process or treatment, other
than food thereby rendered injurious to health, it shall be a defence
for the
person charged to prove that the operation in question was not carried out
fraudulently, and that the article was sold having
attached thereto a notice of
adequate size, distinctly and legibly printed and conspicuously visible, stating
explicitly the nature
of the operation, or was sold in a wrapper or container
displaying such a notice.
(2) The
provisions of paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to an offence consisting of
the sale of a drug to which any substance
has been added, or from which any
constituent has been abstracted, other than a drug thereby injuriously affected
in its quality,
constitution or potency, as they apply in relation to any such
offence as is therein
mentioned.
(3) In proceedings
under regulation 99 in respect of any food or drug containing some extraneous
matter, it shall be a defence for
the defendant to prove that the presence of
that matter was an unavoidable consequence of the process of collection or
preparation.
Offences
in connection with the sale, etc. of unfit food or
drugs
101.-(1)
Subject to the provisions of this regulation, any person who -
(a) sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or preparation for sale; or
(b) deposits with, or consigns to, any person for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale,
any
food intended for, but unfit for, human consumption, or any drug intended for
use by man but unfit for that purpose, shall be
guilty of an offence and liable
to a fine of two hundred
dollars.
(2) Subject as aforesaid,
where any food or drug in respect of which an offence under paragraph (1)
(a)
has been committed was sold to the offender by some other person, that person
also shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a
fine of two hundred
dollars.
(3) Where a person is
charged with an offence under paragraph
(1)(b),
or under paragraph (2), it shall be a defence for him to prove
either-
(a) that he gave notice to the person with whom he deposited, or to whom he consigned or sold, the food or drug in question that it was not intended for human consumption or for use by man, as the case may be; or
(b) that, at the time when he delivered or despatched it to that person, either it was fit for human consumption or for use by man, as the case may be, or he did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, that it was not so fit.
Examination
and seizure of suspected food or
drugs
102.-(1)
A health inspector or health officer may at all reasonable times examine any
food or drug intended for human consumption which
has been sold, or is offered
or exposed for sale, or is in the possession of, or has been deposited with or
consigned to, any person
for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale,
and, if it appears to him to be unfit for human consumption, may seize it and
remove it in order to have it dealt with forthwith by a
Magistrate.
(2) A health inspector
or health officer who seizes any food or drug under paragraph (1) shall inform
the person in whose possession
the food or drug was found of his intention to
have it dealt with by a Magistrate, and any person who under regulation 101
might
be liable to prosecution in respect of the food or drug shall, if he
attends before the Magistrate upon the application for its condemnation,
be
entitled to be heard and to call
witnesses.
(3) If it appears to a
Magistrate that any food or drug brought before him, whether seized under the
provisions of this section or
not, is unfit for human consumption, he shall
condemn it and order it to be destroyed or to be so disposed of as to prevent it
from
being used for human
consumption.
(4) If a Magistrate
refuses to condemn any food or drug seized under this Part, it shall be returned
forthwith to the person in whose
possession the food or drug was at the time of
seizure.
Food
or drugs offered as prizes,
etc
103.
- (1) Regulations 101 and 102 shall apply in relation to -
(a) any food intended for human consumption, or any drug intended for use by man, which is offered as a prize or reward in connection with any entertainment to which the public is admitted, whether on payment of money or not, as is such food or drug were, or had been, exposed for sale by each person concerned in the organisation of the entertainment;
(b) any food intended for human consumption, or any drug intended for use by man, which is offered as a prize or reward or given away for the purpose of advertisement, or in furtherance of any trade or business, as if the food or drug were, or had been, exposed for sale by the person offering or giving it away;
(c) any food intended for human consumption, or any drug intended for use by man, which is exposed or disposed in any premises for the purpose of being so offered or given away as aforesaid, as if the food or drug were, or had been, exposed for sale by the occupier of such premises.
(2)
In this section, the expression "entertainment" includes any social gathering,
amusement, exhibition, performance, game, sport
or trial of
skill.
False
labelling and advertisement of food or
drugs
104.-(1)
If any person gives any food or drug sold by him, or displays with any food or
drug exposed for sale by him, a label, whether
or not the same is attached to or
printed on the wrapper or container, which-
(a) falsely describes the food or drug; or
(b) is calculated to misled as to its nature, substance or quality,
he
shall, unless he proves that he did not know, and could not with reasonable
diligence have ascertained, that the label was of such
a character as aforesaid,
be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred
dollars.
(2) Subject to the
provisions of paragraph (3), if any person publishers, or is party to the
publication of, an advertisement, other
than a label to which the provisions of
paragraph (1) apply which-
(a) falsely describes any food or drug; or
(b) is likely to misled as to the nature, substance or quality of any food or drug,
he
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred dollars, and,
in any proceedings against the manufacturer, producer
or importer of the food or
drug, it shall rest on the defendant to prove that he did not publish, and was
not a party to the publication
of, the
advertisement.
(3) In any
proceedings under paragraph (2), it shall be a defence for the defendant to
prove
either -
(a) that he did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, that the advertisement was of such a character as is described in that paragraph; or
(b) that, being a person whose business it is to publish, or arrange for the publication of, advertisements, he received the advertisement in the ordinary course of business.
(4)
For the purposes of this regulation, a label or advertisement which is
calculated to mislead as to the nutritional or dietary
value of any food is
calculated to mislead as to the quality of the
food.
(5) In this section, save in
so far as it relates to drugs, references to sale shall be construed as
references to sale for human
consumption.
Power
to take
samples
105.-(1)
Any health inspector or health officer may take samples for analysis, or for
bacteriological or other examination, of any food
or drug, or of any substance
capable of being used in the preparation of any food or drug, which appears to
him to be intended for
sale or to have been sold for human consumption or for
use by man, as the case may be, or which is found by him on or in any premises,
stall, vehicle, vessel, aircraft or place which he is authorised to enter for
the purposes of these
Regulations:
Provided
that-
(a) such health inspector or health officer shall pay or tender payment of the market price of any such sample, or, if the market price be unknown or not readily ascertainable, a reasonable price, to the person appearing to have the lawful custody of such food, drug or substance; and
(b) where any such food, drug or substance is kept for retail sale in unopened packages, no such sample shall consist of less than the whole of the contents of any one such package.
(2)
When taking any sample under this regulation, such health inspector or health
officer shall take such steps as may be necessary
to satisfy himself that the
sample taken is a fair sample of the bulk of the food, drug or other substance
in question.
(3) Nothing in this
regulation shall be construed as authorising any purchase or sale of drugs in
contravention of the provisions
of the Dangerous Drugs
Act.
Cap.
98
(4) Any person who fails to
comply with any demand or requisition made under the provisions of this
regulation shall be guilty of
an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred
dollars.
Provisions
as to the taking of samples for
analysis
106.-(1)
Any health inspector or health officer who takes a sample under the provisions
of regulation 105 of any food, drug or substance
for the purpose of analysis
shall forthwith divide such sample into three parts, each part to be marked and
sealed or fastened up
in such manner as its nature will permit, and shall
-
(a) with respect to one part of the sample comply with the provisions of paragraph (2); and
(b) with respect to the remaining parts of the sample comply with the provisions of paragraph (3).
(2) (a) If the sample was obtained by purchase from a dealer in the food, drug or substance in question the health inspector or health officer shall give the one part to the vendor, such vendor being permitted to select such part from the three parts.
(b) If the sample is of any food, drug or substance consigned from outside Solomon Islands and was taken by the health inspector or health officer before delivery to the consignee, the health inspector or health officer shall give the one part of the sample to the consignee.
(c) If the sample is of any food, drug or substance in transit from a consignor within Solomon Islands to a consignee (whether within or without Solomon Islands), the health inspector or health officer shall give the one part of the sample to the consignor.
(d) If none of the foregoing sub-paragraphs of this paragraph apply, the health inspector or health officer shall give the one part of the sample to the person appearing to him to be the owner of the food, drug or substance of which the sample was taken.
(3)
In every case to which the provisions of paragraph (2) apply, the health
inspector or health officer shall inform the person to
whom the part of the
sample is given that the sample was taken for the purpose of
analysis.
(4) Any part of a sample
which under the provisions of this regulation is to be given to any person may
be given either by delivering
it to him or to his agent, or by sending it to him
by post in a registered
packet:
Provided that where, after
reasonable inquiry, the health inspector or health officer is unable to find the
person to whom the part
of the sample is to be given or to ascertain his name
and address, he may, in lieu of giving the part to that person, retain
it.
(5) If it appears to the
health inspector or health officer that any food, drug or substance of which he
has taken a sample for the
purpose of analysis was manufactured or put into its
wrapper or container by a person (not being a person to whom one part of the
sample is required to be given by virtue of the provisions of paragraph (2))
having his name, and an address in Solomon Islands;
displayed on the wrapper or
container, the health inspector or health officer shall, unless he decides not
to have analysis made,
within three days after taking such sample, send to that
person a notice informing him that the sample has been taken by him and
where
the sample was taken or, as the case may be, from whom it was
purchased.
(6) Where a sample
taken under the provisions of regulation 105 has been analysed by a suitably
qualified person authorised in that
behalf by the Director (hereinafter in this
Part referred to as the analyst), any person to whom a part of the sample was
given in
accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) shall be entitled, on
payment of the prescribed fee, to be supplied with a copy of
the certificate
given by the analyst under regulation
107.
(7) Any person who, for the
purpose of advertisement, uses any certificate of analysis obtained under the
provisions of paragraph
(6) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine
of two hundred
dollars.
Certificate
of
analysis
107.-(1)
In every case in which a sample for analysis is delivered to the analyst under
the provisions of regulation 106, the analyst
shall cause it to be analysed as
soon as practicable and shall give to the health inspector or health officer
requesting the analysis
a certificate specifying the result of the analysis in
the prescribed form.
(2) A
certificate of the results of an analysis given by the analyst under paragraph
(1) shall be signed by him, but the analysis
may be made by any person acting
under his
directions.
Evidence
of
analysis
108.-(1)
In any proceedings under this Part, the production by one of the parties of a
document purporting to be a certificate of the
analyst in the prescribed form or
of a document supplied to him by the other party as being a copy of such a
certificate, shall be
prima facie evidence of the facts stated
therein.
(2) Where any relevant
method of analysis has been prescribed, evidence of an analysis carried out by
the prescribed method shall
be preferred to evidence of any other analysis or
test.
Proceedings
in respect of articles or substances
sampled
109.
In any proceedings under this Part, where a sample has been procured in such
circumstances that its division into parts is required
by these Regulations, the
part of the sample retained by the person who took it shall be produced at the
hearing.
Presumptions
110.-(1)
For the purposes of this Part-
(a) any article commonly used for human consumption, or any drug commonly used by man, shall, if sold or offered, exposed or kept for sale, be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been sold, or, as the case may be, to have been or to be intended for sale for human consumption or for use by man;
(b) any article commonly used for human consumption, or any drug commonly used by man, which is found on any premises or in any vessel, vehicle or aircraft used for the preparation, storage, transport or sale of that article or drug, and any article commonly used in the manufacture of products for human consumption or drugs for use by man which is found on any premises or in any vessel, vehicle or aircraft used for the preparation, storage, transport or sale of those products or drugs, shall be presumed until the contrary is proved, to be intended for sale, or for manufacturing products for sale for human consumption or for use by man, as the case may be;
(c) any substance capable of being used in the composition or preparation of any article commonly used for human consumption or any drug commonly used by man which is found on any premises or in any vessel where that article or drug is prepared shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to be intended for use.
(2)
Where any food for human consumption or any drug for use by man is sold, or
deposited with or consigned to any person for the
purpose of sale for human
consumption or use by man, as the case may be, contained in an unopened package,
any person who appears
from any statement thereon or attached thereto to have
imported, manufactured or prepared such food or drug or to have enclosed it
in
such package shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have so imported,
manufactured, prepared or enclosed the
same.
(3) For the purposes of this
Part, the expression "for use by man" means for human consumption or for
external application to the
human
body.
Restriction
on movement of imported food or
drugs
111.-(1)
Without prejudice to any power of examining food or drugs conferred by this
Part, any health inspector or health officer may
give directions to the person
in possession of any food or drug imported with a view to sale for human
consumption or for use by
man, as the case may be, prohibiting or restricting
its removal or delivery -
(a) during any period not exceeding forty-eight hours; and
(b) if within that period the health inspector or health officer so requires, until that person has notified the health inspector or health officer of the name of the person to whom, and the address to or at which, he proposes to send or deliver such food or drug.
(2)
A person who fails to comply with any direction given under the provisions of
paragraph (1), or who, in a notification thereunder,
knowingly makes any false
statement, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred
dollars.
Conditions
under which warranty may be pleaded as
defence
112.-(1)
Subject to the provisions of this regulation, in any proceedings for an offence
under this Part, being an offence consisting
of selling, or offering, exposing
or advertising for sale or having in possession for the purpose of sale, any
article or substance,
it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove
-
(a) that he purchased it as being an article or substance which could lawfully be sold or otherwise dealt with as aforesaid, or, as the case may be, could lawfully be sold or dealt with under the name or description or for the purpose under or for which he sold or dealt with it, and with a written warranty to that effect; and
(b) that he had no reason to believe at the time of the commission of the alleged offence that it was otherwise; and
(c) that it was then in the same state as when he purchased it.
(2)
A warranty shall only be a defence in proceedings under this Part if
-
(a) the defendant -
(i) has, not later than three clear days before the date of the hearing, sent to the prosecutor a copy of the warranty with a notice stating that he intends to rely on it and specifying the name and address of the person from whom he received it; and
(ii) has also sent a like notice to that person; and
(b) in the case of a warranty given by a person resident outside Solomon Islands, the defendant proves that he had taken reasonable steps to ascertain, and did in fact believe in, the accuracy of the statement contained therein.
(3)
Where the defendant is a servant or agent of the person who purchased the
article or substance under a warranty, he shall be entitled
to rely on the
provisions of this regulation in the same way as his employer or principal would
have been entitled to do if he had
been the
defendant.
(4) For the purposes of
this regulation and of regulation 113, a name or description entered in an
invoice shall be deemed to be a
written warranty that the article or substance
to which the entry refers can be sold or otherwise dealt with under that name or
description
by any person without contravening any of the provisions of this
Part.
Offences
in relation to warranties or certificates of
analysis
113.-(1)
A defendant who in any proceedings under this Part wilfully applies to any
article or substance a warranty or certificate of
analysis given in relation to
any other article or substance shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a
fine of two hundred dollars.
(2) A
person who, in respect of any article or substance sold by him, being an article
or substance in respect of which a warranty
might be pleaded under regulation
112, gives to the purchaser a false warranty in writing shall be guilty of an
offence, unless he
proves that when he gave the warranty he had reason to
believe that the statements or description contained therein were accurate,
and
liable to a fine of two hundred
dollars.
Sale,
etc. by servants or
agents
114.
For the purpose of this Part, every person shall be deemed to sell, offer,
expose or advertise for sale, or have in his possession
for sale, any food for
human consumption or drug for use by man, who sells, offers, exposes or
advertises for sale, or has in his
possession for sale, such food or drug either
on his own account or as the servant or agent of some other person, and where
such
person is the servant or agent of some other person, such other person
shall, subject to the provisions of this Part, be under the
same liability as if
he had himself sold, exposed or advertised for sale, or had in his possession
for sale, such food or
drug.
Recovery
of expenses incidental to taking of
sample
115.
Where a person is convicted of an offence under this Part, the court may order
that all expenses incidental to the taking of any
sample or the making of any
analysis of any food or drug in respect of which the conviction is obtained
shall be paid by the person
convicted.
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FIRST SCHEDULE
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
Acute Anterior
Poliomyelitis.
Anthrax.
Bacillary
Dysentery
(Shigellosis).
Brucellosis.
Cerebro-Spinal
Meningitis.
Cholera.
Dengue.
Diphtheria.
Encephalitis.
Leprosy.
Leptospirosis.
Pertussis.
Plague.
Rabies.
Relapsing
Fever (Epidemic
Louse-Borne).
Syphilis.
Tuberculosis.
Typhus
(Epidemic Louse-Borne).
Typhus
(Flea-Borne).
Typhus
(Mite-Borne).
Typhoid.
Yellow
Fever.
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SECOND SCHEDULE
OFFENSIVE TRADES
Blood or offal boiling or
treating.
Bone boiling or
crushing.
Fat melting or
extraction.
Fellmongering.
Glue
making.
Gut
scraping.
Hide and skin storing and
curing.
Knackering.
Lime
burning
Manure
storing.
Manufacture of fish meal,
silage, fertiliser or
manure.
Slaughtering.
Soap
making.
Size
making.
Tanning.
Tallow
making.
Tripe boiling.
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(Legislation made under the provisions of the Public Health Act (No. 2 of 1970) and continued in force under section 19 of the Environment Health Act.)
(I) THE PUBLIC HEALTH (MALARIA) (SCREENING OF PASSENGERS) RULES
LN 84/1978
Citation
1.
These Rules may be cited as the Public Health (Malaria) (Screening of
Passengers)
Rules.
Interpretation
2.
In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires -
"area of attack" means an area from time to time defined by the Minister on epidemiological grounds to be an area of attack, such area being one where malaria transmission still exists and where cyclical spraying operations are still being carried out;
"area of consolidation and maintenance" means an area from time to time defined by the Minister on epidemiological grounds to be an area of consolidation and maintenance, such area having ceased to support malaria transmission either partially or completely;
"blood sample" means, in relation to any person, a sample of his blood of sufficient size to enable an analysis thereof to be undertaken to ascertain whether such person is harbouring malaria parasites in his blood;
"Malaria Officer" means a person employed by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services and appointed to the Malaria Eradication Programme by the Under Secretary (Health);
"specified voyage" means a voyage or journey by sea or air within Solomon Islands from an area of attack to an area of consolidation or maintenance.
Declaration
by Minister
3.
The Minister may from time to time by
Notice declare any area within Solomon Islands to be area of attack or an area
of consolidation
or
maintenance
Malaria
Officer may take blood samples
4.
For the purpose of preventing the reintroduction of Malaria to an area of
consolidation or maintenance, a Malaria Officer may at
any port or airport
within an area of attack take a blood sample from any passenger immediately
before he embarks on a vessel or
aircraft undertaking a specified voyage or
during the course of such specified
voyage.
Powers
of Malaria
Officer
5.
A Malaria Officer may
require-
(a) the owner of or person having control over a vessel or aircraft due to make a specified voyage to provide a list of passengers intending to travel on such voyage;
(b) the owner of or person having control over a vessel or aircraft departing on a specified voyage to ensure that every passenger intending to travel thereon (whether or not such passenger is included on any passenger list) presents himself to the Malaria Officer to enable him to take a blood sample from each such passenger;
(c) any passenger intending to travel on a vessel or aircraft making a specified voyage to give a blood sample for the purpose of ascertaining whether he is harbouring malaria parasites in his blood; and
(d) any passenger intending to travel on a vessel or aircraft making a specified voyage to give his name and an address or description of the place where he intends to stay after disembarking from a specified voyage.
Malaria's
Officer's power to delay departure of
vessel
6.
If the Malaria Officer is not satisfied that every person travelling or
intending to travel on a vessel or aircraft making a specified
voyage has
presented himself to give a blood sample, the Malaria Officer may require the
master of such vessel to delay its departure
from the place at which such
samples are being taken until such time as he is satisfied that every passenger
on board such vessel
has presented himself to him to give a blood
sample.
Offences
7.-(1)
Any passenger travelling in a vessel or aircraft making a specified voyage who,
after being requested to do so fails to present
himself to the Malaria Officer,
or who upon doing so, fails to allow the Malaria Officer to take a sample of his
blood or fails to
give his name or destination shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten
dollars.
(2) The owner or master
of any vessel or aircraft making a specified voyage who fails to comply with any
requirement of Malaria Officer
made under rules 4 or 5 hereof shall be guilty of
an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars.
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(II) THE PUBLIC HEALTH (MALARIA ERADICATION) RULES
LN 6/1979
Citation
1.
These Rules may be cited as the Public Health (Malaria Eradication)
Rules.
Interpretation
2.
In these Rules unless the context otherwise requires-
"blood sample" means, in relation to any person, a sample of his blood of sufficient size to enable an analysis thereof to be undertaken to ascertain whether such person is harbouring malaria parasites in his blood;
"inspection" means inspection of any premises or of any articles therein with a view to spraying;
"Malaria Officer" means a person employed by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services and appointed to the Malaria Eradication Programme by the Permanent Secretary;
"obstruct" shall be deemed to include the action of locking and leaving unattended a dwelling house without due cause after the person so doing has received a notice in accordance with paragraph (1) of rule 5 that such dwelling house will be sprayed during the period that the dwelling house is so locked and left unattended;
"Permanent Secretary" means the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services;
"person in charge of the spray team" means the person in immediate control of the operation of spraying any particular premises and normally present at the operation;
"spraying" means the spraying with insecticides of any premises (whether internally or externally) or any articles thereon;
"spray team" means one or more persons occupied as a unit in the operation of spraying;
Areas
in which spraying may be carried
out
3.
Spraying may be carried out in such places or areas and in such manner as the
Permanent Secretary may from time to time
direct.
Inspection
of spraying
4.
Inspection of spraying shall be carried
out on any day between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock
in the evening
and, subject to the provisions of rule 5, any member of a spray
team may enter any premises for such
purposes:
Provided that reasonable
measures shall be taken by the person in charge of the spray team to ensure that
the premises and any articles
thereon are left in a condition not worse than
before the inspection or spraying and in particular it shall be his duty to
ensure
that all steps which the occupier of premises is required to take under
rule 6 have been taken and as soon as the spraying is over
to repair any damage
done in the course of the inspection or
spraying.
Notice
of entry
5.
-(1) A Malaria Officer or person in
charge of a spray team, or any person duly authorised in this respect by a
Malaria Officer, shall
give to the occupier of such premises not less than
forty-eight hours' notice of his intention to inspect or spray the premises and
of the time and which the inspection or spraying is to be carried
out.
(2) If the occupier of any
premises is unknown or cannot be found after reasonable enquiries a notice shall
be affixed to some conspicuous
part of the
premises.
(3) Nothing in this rule
shall apply to the spraying of premises with the consent of the occupier
thereof.
Action
by occupier on receipt of
notice
6.
An occupier of premises who has received a notice in accordance with paragraph
(1) of rule 5 or who has consented to the spraying
of the premises without such
notice shall before the spraying commences -
(a) put away all foodstuffs, clothing and other articles likely to be damaged by spraying;
(b) extinguish all fires and naked flames on the premises for the duration of spraying; and
(c) remove all animals, young children, and incapacitated sick or elderly persons from the premises for the duration of the spraying.
Record
of
spraying
7
- (1) The person in charge of the spray team may issue to the occupier of any
premises which have been sprayed pursuant to these
Rules a notice containing a
record of the spraying of the
premises.
(2) The occupier of
premises who has received a notice in accordance with paragraph (1) of this rule
shall keep the notice and shall
produce it at the request of a Malaria Officer
or of the person in charge of any spray team which subsequently visits the
premises.
Power
to require medical inspection
etc
8.
A Malaria Officer may at any time direct
any person or class or group of persons to attend at a stated place and time for
the purpose
of giving information relating to malaria infection and submitting
to a medical examination, which may include the giving of a blood
sample to a
Malaria Officer, and any person affected by such direction shall comply
therewith.
Attendance
for
treatment
9.
Where a medical examination carried out in accordance with rule 8 has revealed
that a person is harbouring malaria parasites in his
blood a Malaria Officer may
give directions to him regarding his attendance for such treatment as may be
necessary to prevent the
spread of infection from him to other
persons.
Administration
10.
A Malaria Officer may, in any place or area where the Permanent Secretary has
determined that a programme of mass drug administration
shall be carried out,
administer to any person or direct any person in that place or area to ingest
orally such antimalarial drugs
as may be required for the purpose of that
programme to prevent the spread of infection in that area, unless such person
shall produce
a medical certificate to show that in his case the ingestion of
such drugs is unnecessary or
undesirable.
Compensation
11.
No person shall be entitled to compensation for any expense incurred or damage
suffered in pursuance of these Rules unless such
damage has been occasioned
maliciously or without reasonable
cause.
Offences
and
penalties
12.
Any person who fails to comply with any direction given by a Malaria Officer
under the provisions of these Rules, or who obstructs
a Malaria Officer or any
member of a spray team in carrying out any act or operation authorised by these
Rules shall commit an offence
and upon conviction therefor shall be liable to a
fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding
one month or to both such fine and imprisonment.
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