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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

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1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Public Health Act.

2. Interpretation

2A. Act binds the Crown

3. Division of island into areas and districts

4. Functions of Minister

5. Public Health Board

6. Delegation to local authority

7. Appointment of public health officers

8. Chief Medical Officer to discharge functions of Minister

10. Minister may compel the execution of works in interest of public health

11. Power of Entry

12. Authentication of documents

13. Service of Notice

16. Limitation on prosecution

17. Laying of information etc.

18. Prosecution of offences

19. Exemption from liability

21. Savings for pensions rights

22. Existing statutory legislation

23. Default Powers

24. Use of force

25. Amendment of Schedule

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

Public Health (Nuisances) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 10/1978 and 17/2020)

2. Interpretation

3A. Nuisance prohibited

5. Expenses in connection with abatement

Public Health Regulations Offensive and Hazardous Trades – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 80/2020 and 115/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Restriction on carrying on of offensive or hazardous trade

4. Application for licence

5. Approval of plan

6. Inspection of premises

7. Grant or refusal of application

8. Issue or renewal of licence

9. Duration of licence

10. Non-transferability

11. Display of licence

12. Duplicate licence

13. Cancellation or suspension of the licence

14. Daily cleaning

16. Use of premises for sleeping purposes

17. Restrictions as to certain persons

18. Power to grant exemption

20. Offence and penalty

Public Health (Communicable and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 12/1978, 21/1991 and 19/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Duty of occupier etc., to consult or inform a medical practitioner

4. Medical practitioner to give notice of notifiable disease

4A. Other circumstances under which notice required

4B. Information for the notice

4C. Records required to be provided

4D. Notification of certain diseases

5. Notification forms and fee in respect of notification

6. Duties and powers of medical officer of health in respect of notifiable disease

7. Duties of public health nurse and environmental health inspector

9. Powers of Public Health Board in Respect of Communicable Diseases

11. Powers of Police

Public Health (Barber) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 13/1978 and 37/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Application for Registration

4. Premises ceasing to be used as barber shop

5. Premises — Hygiene and Sanitation

6. Duties of Barbers

7. Health Certificate

8. Employment of other persons to conform with Regulations

9. Power of medical officer of health to call for Examination of Barbers

10. Display of licence

11. Non Compliance

Public Health (Water Quality Control) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 14/1978 and 58/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Non impairment of quality of water

4. Permission for conveyance of water for domestic use

5. Water supply systems to be satisfactorily constructed and maintained

6. Well to be located, constructed etc. to prevent contamination

6A. Licence for conveyance in water tank or other receptacle

6B. Application for licence for conveyance in water tank or other receptacle

6C. Issue and duration of licence for conveyance in water tank or other receptacle

6D. Cancellation or suspension of licence for conveyance in water tank or other receptacle

6E. Delivery of licence on suspension, cancellation or cessation

7. Water tanks etc., for the conveyance of water to be impervious, easily cleaned and sanitized

7A Licence for water bottling plant

7B. Application for water bottling plant licence

7C. Application of regulations 6C to 6E

7D. Certificate of health

8. Quality of drinking water etc., to be prescribed

9. Chlorinating machinery etc., to be kept working efficiently

10. Testing of chlorinated water by authorised persons

11. Notice to desist from contamination of water supply

12. Closure of water supply

Public Health (Apartments, Guest Houses and Hotels) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 15/1978, 26/1983 and 35/2020)

3. Apartment or Guest House or Hotel to be registered

4. Application for registration

5. Licence to operate

6. Notice on cessation of operation

7. Operation of Guest House and Hotels

8. Provision of clean linen etc.

9. Plumbing Fixtures

10. Provisions For Guest House or Hotel

11. Provisions for Apartment Houses

12. Rooms for sleeping purposes

13. Floor Space etc., of Room for Sleeping Purposes

14. Notice on Owner or Occupier

15. Grounds for Cancellation of Licence

Public Health (Swimming Pools) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 16/1978, 27/1983 and 36/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Regulation of construction or alteration of a Swimming Pool etc.

4. Approval of Construction

5. Permit for operation of swimming or wading pool

6. Provision in respect of Construction Operations and Maintenance

7. Lighting and Electrical Equipment to be Rendered Danger Free

8. Provisions in respect of walls of swimming pool

9. Water depths

10. Overflow gutters and Automatic Devices

11. Filters and Filtration

12. Cycling or Circulation of Water System

13. Provisions in respect of Recirculating System

14. Diving towers or boards

15. General Safety

16. Disinfection of pool

17. Persons forbidden use of swimming pool

18. Spitting or blowing of noses forbidden

19. Power to close swimming pool

20. Cancellation or suspension of permit of operation

21. Penalty Clause

Public Health (Notification of Births) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 17/1978 and 29/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Notice of the birth of a child and still-birth to Chief Medical Officer

4. Chief Medical Officer to keep register of births and still-births

Public Health (Bakeries) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 18/1978, 25/1983 and 59/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Licence for operation of bakeries

4. Application for Licence

5. Cancellation or Suspension of Registration

6. Form and contents etc., of Licence

7. Register of Bakeries

8. Delivery of licence on cessation, cancellation or suspension

9. Washing and paintings of Walls and ceilings etc.

10. Hygenic or Sanitary requirements etc., in place where bakery is carried on

11. Certificate of Health

12. Power of medical officer etc. to compel baker to take medical examination

13. Deportment and dress and personal hygiene of persons in bakery

14. Storage and keeping of bakery material and the placement of bread and bread products

15. Power to close bakery where operation is dangerous to health

Public Health (Transportation of Human Remains) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 19/1978 and 31/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Documents necessary for transportation of human remains

4. Conditions prerequisite for transportation

5. Human remains to be transported in Impervious Coffin

6. Transportation of Impervious Coffin

7. Wreaths and flowers etc., accompanying, to comply with other laws of country

8. Transportation of human ashes

8A. Clearance for human remains

Public Health (Barracks and Tenements) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 20/1978 and 26/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Approval in respect of barracks or tenement buildings

4. Specifications to hygiene

5. Sleeping Accommodation

6. Separate Accommodation to be Provided for Sexes

7. Maintenance of Barracks and Tenement Building

8. Non compliance

Public Health (Disposal of Offensive Matter) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 21/1978 and 27/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Restriction in the deposit of filth night soil etc.

4. Carriage of night soil in street restricted to prescribed hours

5. Cart and Vehicle etc., for Carriage of Offensive Matter to be effectively secured

6. Falling or dropping of offensive matter carried on public road to be removed

7. Approval of carriage and licence of person for the carriage of filth and night soil

8. (Revoked by S.I. 27/2020)

9. Restrictions for burying night soil

10. Provision for a sufficient and suitable sanitary convenience

11. Restriction on the discharge of effluent into sea from public sewerage system

12. Restriction discharge of effluent from private sewerage system

13. Disposal of dead animal

14. Burying of sea egg shells

Public Health (Sewage and Disposal of Sewage and Liquid Industrial Waste Works) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 22/1978 and 79/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Administration

4. Discharge of Effluent

5. Sewage and Industrial Effluent Discharge into Coastal Waters

6. Sewage and Industrial Works

9. Waste water treatment plant

10. Operation and Maintenance of Sewage System

11. Treatment Plants

Public Health (Slaughterhouse) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instruments 69/1980 and 30/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Registration

4. Certificate of Health

5. Persons allowed inside Slaughterhouse

7. Premises — Hygienic requirements, etc.

8. Provisions for Water and Receptacles

10. Prohibited Animals

11. Informing environmental health officer

12. Unfit Animals

13. Inspection of Carcass

Public Health (Foods) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instrument 70/1980)

PART 1 FOOD GENERAL

PART 3 FOOD HANDLING ESTABLISHMENT REGULATIONS

PART 4 REGULATION IN RESPECT OF EATING AND FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS

PART 5 REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO STALL

PART 6 REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO AERATED WATER FACTORIES

PART 7 REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO THE TRANSPORT AND CARRYING OF MEAT, FISH AND FROZEN PRODUCTS

PART 8 REGISTRATION OF DAIRIES

REGISTRATION OF MILKING PLACES

LICENCES OF MILK SELLERS

POWERS AS TO REGISTRATION AND LICENCES

CATTLE-PENS IN TOWNS, VILLAGES AND PRESCRIBED AREAS

REPORT ON MILKING PLACES AND PASTURES

INSPECTION AND CLEANLINESS OF ANIMALS

DISEASES AMONG ANIMALS

POWERS OF INSPECTION

MEASURES FOR SALE OF MILK

Public Health (General) Regulations – Section 22 (Statutory Instruments 4/1935, 57/1936, 39/1940, 8/1942, 67/1946, 33/1952, 65/1953, 27/1954, 18/1955, 15/1956 and 26/1960)

Public Health (Disposal of Corpses Brought Into Saint Lucia) Regulations – Section 22 (Statutory Instrument 1/1935)

Public Health (Mosquito Control) regulations – Section 22 (Statutory Instruments 1/1935, 26/1960 and 18/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Appointment by Governor General

4. Members of the service to spray or inspect all premises

5. Action as regards foodstuffs and lights before spraying

6. Inspection and spraying of unoccupied premises

7. Where the occupier wilfully absents himself or herself from the premises for the purpose of preventing the spraying thereof

8. Vessels containing water for domestic use to be placed in accessible positions

9. Owner or occupier of premises to render receptacles mosquito-proof

10. Inspection of covered drains and sewers

11. Receptacles used for holding drinking water for animals

12. Provisions as regards wells

13. Powers of members of the Service

14. Inspection cards may be affixed to tanks or vats

15. Inspection of roof-gutters

16. Declaration as to adequate supply of potable water in any area

17. Retention of water on buildings

Public Health (Public Health Hazard) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instrument 25/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Requirement for report in writing

4. Information on public health hazard

5. Investigation of report

6. Notification when matter is not a public health hazard

7. Risk assessment

8. Communication of results of risk assessment

9. Obligation to determine or develop management plan

10. Failure to follow management plan

11. Notification of other government department or agency

Public Health (Body Art Facility) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instrument 57/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. Non-application

4. Requirement for a licence

5. Application for licence

6. Grant or refusal of application

7. Issue of licence

8. Duration of licence

9. Renewal of licence

10. Display of licence

11. Non-transferability

12. Suspension and revocation

14. Certificate of health

Public Health (Smoking Control) Regulations – Section 9 (Statutory Instrument 81/2020)

2. Interpretation

3. No smoking in public places

4. Display of no smoking signs

5. Prohibition on sale of tobacco products in certain places

6. Removal of offending persons

8. Protection of employees

10. Transitional