Local Government Act 1976 · Updated to 1 Dec 2012 · Part IX · Food, Markets, Sanitation and Nuisances
Section 75
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Health Officer
“Health Officer” means the officer for the time being perfoming the duties of a Health Officer to a local authority and includes an Assistant Health Officer;
If such order is not complied with within the time specified, the occupier shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment and to a further fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit for each day after conviction until the order is complied with.
occupier
“occupier” means the person in occupation of the premises in respect of which the word is used or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person but does not include a lodger;
No entry shall be made into any dwelling-house in actual occupation, not being a common lodging-house, without six hours’
previous notice to the occupier unless with his consent.
Destruction of rats and mice
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