Malaysia legislation
Section 72
Section 72
(a)
to establish, maintain and carry out such sanitary services for dealing with effluent;
(b)
to establish, erect, maintain, let, control and manage markets and market buildings, lodging houses, houses, rooms or buildings kept for public refreshment, shops, stalls and stands, and to control the occupation and use thereof;
(c)
to license temporary buildings, stalls, tables, showboards, barrows, carts, tricycles or other receptacles, whether stationary or otherwise, set up or used for the sale or exposing for sale of—
(i)
any food or drink in streets, public places or places of public resort or on private premises;
(ii)
goods other than food or drink in streets, public places or places of public resort, and to seize, destroy or dispose of the same if they are not so licensed;
(d)
to establish, erect and maintain public lavatories, closets and urinals, either above or below ground, in any public place;
(e)
to establish, erect, maintain and control abattoirs, whether within or without the local authority area;
(f)
to safeguard and promote the public health and to take all necessary and reasonably practicable measures—
(i)
for preventing the occurrence of any infectious, communicable or preventable disease;
(ii)
(Deleted by Act A1311);
(iii)
for preventing the occurrence of, or for remedying or causing to be remedied, any nuisance or condition likely to be injurious or dangerous to health;
(g)
to establish, erect, equip, maintain, control and operate cold storage works and depots for the inspection of meat;
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(h)
to establish, erect, equip, maintain, control and operate depots for the inspection, treatment, distribution, purchase and sale of milk or milk products;
(i)
to establish, acquire, erect, maintain, control and operate laundries and places for washing clothes; and
(j)
to establish, erect, maintain, control and operate disinfecting stations.
(2)
For the purposes of sections 72 and 73, effluent shall not include sewage.
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