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Medical and Public Heath Act

Repealed

LAWS OF TONGA

[1988 Ed.]

CHAPTER 74

MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Definition of town areas.

PART I.-ADMINISTRATION

4. Power to make regulations.
5. Privy Council may appoint Boards of Health.
6. Vacancies on Boards.
7. Composition of Boards.
8. Quorum.
9. Proceedings by or against Boards of Health.
10. Functions of Principal Board.
11. Duties of District Boards.

PART II.-CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

12. Sufferer to submit to treatment.
13. Information relating to contagious or infectious disease.
14. Duties towards infected children.
15. Infected employees.
16. Offence to transmit contagious or infectious disease.
17. Notification of diseases

(a) by head of family, relatives or occupier.

(b) by medical practitioners.
18. Duties of medical officers.
19. Medical officer may quarantine dwellings in which infectious disease exists.
20. Cleansing and disinfecting of premises.
21. Disinfection of bedding or clothing, etc.
22. Burial of persons dying of infectious disease.
23. Persons dying of infectious disease in hospital.
24. Penalty for persons with infectious disease appearing in public places.
25. Penalty for permitting children with infectious disease to attend school.
26. Power to close schools.
27. Imported second-hand clothing to be inspected and fumigated.

PART III.-SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS FOR FOOD

28. Power to make regulations.

PART IV.-DISEASED AND UNFIT FOOD

29. Penalty for selling or exposing for sale diseased foodstuffs.
30. Power to take samples.
31. Obstructing officer: Penalty.

PART V.-SANITARY SUPERINTENDENCE AND NUISANCES

32. Powers and duties of Boards in relation to latrines.
33. Notice requiring abatement of nuisance or matter dangerous to health.
34. Penalty for non-compliance with notice.
35. Non-compliance with magistrate's order concerning nuisance.
36. Procedure for abatement of nuisance on public lands.

PART VI.-PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY

37. Ownership of public water supplies.
38. Cement tanks to be furnished with partitions.
39. Openings into tanks to be securely fastened. Penalty for obtaining water otherwise than by pump.
40. Penalty for damaging public water supplies.
41. Taxpayers to provide roofs for public tanks.
42. Public tanks to be cleaned annually.
43. Penalty for breach of District Officer's order.

PART VII.-PRIVATE TANKS AND WELLS

44. Duty of the Boards.
45. No well to be sunk without permission.