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Section 126 of Public Health Act CAP 242: Rules under Part

    

The Minister, on the advice of the board, may make rules and may confer powers and impose duties in connexion with the carrying out and enforcement thereof on local authorities, magistrates, owners and others as to—
(a) the inspection of land, dwellings, buildings, factories and trade premises, and for securing the keeping of the same clean and free from nuisance and so as not to endanger the health of the inmates or the public health;
(b) the construction of buildings, the provision of proper lighting and ventilation and the prevention of over-crowding;
(c) the periodical cleansing and whitewashing or other treatment of dwellings, and the cleansing of land attached thereto, and the removal of rubbish or ref-use therefrom;
(d) the drainage of land, streets or premises, the disposal of offensive liquids and the removal and disposal of rubbish, refuse, manure and waste matters;
(e) the standard or standards or purity of any liquid which, after treatment in any purification works, may be discharged therefrom as effluent;
(f) the keeping of animals or birds and the construction, cleanliness and drainage of places where animals or birds are kept;
(g) the establishment and carrying on of factories or trade premises which are liable to cause offensive smells or effluvia, or to discharge liquid or other material liable to cause such smells or effluvia, or to pollute streams, or are otherwise liable to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health, and for prohibiting the establishment or carrying on of such factories or trade premises in unsuitable localities or so as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health;
(h) the subdivision and general lay-out of land intended to be used as building sites, the level construction, number, direction and the width of streets and thoroughfares, the limitation of the number of dwellings or other buildings to be erected on such land, the proportion of any building site which may be built upon and the establishment of zones within which different limitations shall apply and of zones within which may be prohibited the establishment or conduct of occupations or trades likely to cause nuisance or annoyance to persons residing in the neighbourhood;
(i) the inspection of the district of any local authority by that local authority with a view to ascertain whether the lands and buildings thereon are in a state to be injurious or dangerous to health, and the preparation, keeping and publication of such records as may be required.

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