Section 73

to keep public places clean and free from liquid waste and to prohibit the throwing, dropping, depositing or discharging of flushing water or other liquid waste, into any stream, channel or other water course, and prevent such liquid from flowing into any such place, and to regulate or prohibit the bathing or washing of persons, animals or things in any such place;

to prohibit, remove, abate and prevent the occurrence of nuisances:

Provided that in any case where it appears that a nuisance existing within the local authority area is wholly or partly caused by some act or default outside the local authority area, proceedings may be taken against any

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person in respect of such act or default in the same manner and with the same incidence and consequences as if the act or default were wholly within the local authority area;

to secure the proper construction of stables, goatpens, cattle sheds, pigstyes and poultry houses, and to prevent the keeping of birds or animals on premises which are not constructed in accordance with the by-laws or are so constructed or situated that birds or animals if kept therein are likely to cause a nuisance, and to prohibit the keeping of birds or animals on any premises which the

Health Officer certifies to be so situated as to be unfit for the purpose;

to prevent the outbreak and spread of diseases, to declare what diseases are notifiable, and to provide for the compulsory removal of persons suffering from any such disease to suitable hospitals or places of isolation and their detention and treatment therein where, in the opinion of the Health Officer, such removal, detention and treatment are necessary either for the protection of the public health or by reason of the insufficiency or unsuitability of the patient’s lodging or accommodation;

to regulate and enforce quarantine, the disinfection of persons, the disinfection of places and things, and to authorize the seizure and detention and to ensure the destruction, when in the opinion of the Health Officer such destruction is necessary, of articles which are infected or which have been exposed to infection, upon payment of compensation to the owner thereof, such amount to be settled by agreement or arbitration;

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to provide for penalties for failing to give on demand by the Health Officer any information or to produce any documentary or other evidence required by the Health

Officer for the purpose of tracing the source and preventing the spread of infection;

to require persons arriving in the local authority area from places infected, or suspected of being infected, with any notifiable disease, or by any vessel, aircraft or other means of conveyance so infected or suspected of being infected, to report to the Health Officer and to communicate to him such information as may be prescribed;

to regulate, control, inspect and supervise the manufacture, preparation, storage, handling, transmission and conveyance of any article of food or drink or of ice which is for sale;

to prohibit the introduction into the local authority area, the possession, sale or offering for sale for the purpose of human consumption or the handling other than for the purpose of destruction, of diseased animals, birds, meat or fish or of fruits, vegetables or other articles of food or drink which are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human consumption;

to authorize the seizure, inspection and examination and to ensure the destruction, when in the opinion of the

Health Officer such destruction is necessary, of any

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diseased animals, birds, meat or fish or of fruits, vegetables or other articles of food or drink which are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human consumption;

for providing standard weights, scales and measures for use in markets and for preventing the use therein of false or defective weights, scales or measures;

(Deleted by Act A1311).

for licensing or otherwise controlling persons selling or offering for sale any article whatsoever in markets;

for regulating the days upon and the hours during which markets may be held;

for prohibiting the establishment of any market within a local authority area without the permission of the local authority and for prescribing the conditions and restrictions subject to which such permission may be granted;

the detention for observation and treatment of animals brought for slaughter and suspected of being diseased;

the slaughtering of animals brought to be slaughtered which are diseased or by reason of emaciation or otherwise are in the opinion of the Health Officer or

Veterinary Officer unfit for human consumption;

the disposal of the carcasses of diseased animals;

the prohibition of the slaughtering of animals within the limits of the local authority area otherwise than in an authorized abattoir or place;

the prohibition, except with a permit granted by he local authority, of the introduction into the local authority area for human consumption of the meat of any animal slaughtered outside the local authority area;

the entry by any authorized officer of the local authority by day or night into any premises in which he has reason to believe that any animal is likely to be, is being or has been slaughtered in contravention of the provisions of any by-laws;