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Mombasa County Environmental Health and Sanitation Act, 2017 (No. 12 of 2017).

País/Territorio
Kenya
Subdivisión territorial
Mombasa
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
2017
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Fuente original
Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 26 (Mombasa County Acts No. 12).
Título completo
An Act of the County Assembly of Mombasa to provide for a regulatory and enforcement framework for environmental health and sanitation; to provide for the establishment of environmental P health and sanitation standards; to provide for sanitation services development and investment plans; to provide for certain general powers of the County Executive Committee Member responsible for environmental health and sanitation; and for connected purposes.
Materia
Ganado, Medio ambiente gen., Alimentación y nutrición, Agua, Desechos y sustancias peligrosas
Palabra clave
Legislación básica Salud pública Control de la contaminación Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos Higiene/procedimientos sanitarios Inspección Matanza Sanidad animal Plagas/enfermedades Gestión de desechos Abastecimiento de agua Alcantarillado Agua potable Recopilación de datos/informes Monitoreo Derecho al agua Instalaciones Política/planificación Contaminación de las aguas dulces Efluente de aguas residuales/vertido Inundación Derechos humanos
Área geográphica
Africa, Africa Oriental
Resumen

This Act concerns the protection of public health in Mombasa County. The Act provides with respect to a wide variety of matters affecting public health including, among other things, general sanitation, provisions of sanitation services, control of infectious diseases (also infected animals), food hygiene, control of public nuisances, pollution control and waste management, sewerage and stormwater drainage, and protection water supplies and sources from pollution. One of the declared objects of the Act is to provide an enabling environment of the realization of the right to reasonable standards of sanitation and to clean and healthy environment. The Act sets out the principles that shall guide the interpretation, application and administration of this Act. These are, in part expressed in the national values and principles of governance of Article 10 of the Constitution. In addition, the Act formulates - the right to reasonable standards of sanitation; the right to a clean and healthy environment; the right to clean and safe water; the duty of every person to protect and improve the environment and ensure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources, including surface and groundwater; the precautionary principle; the polluter pays principle.

Texto completo
Inglés
Página web
www.kenyalaw.org