Public Health (Nuisances) Regulations, Statutory Instrument no. 10 of 1978.

These Regulations, implementing provisions of Public Health Act, specify nuisances and acts affecting prejudicially the public health or safety: any place, matter or thing, or deposit, or accumulation of liquid or soiled matter insanitary or injurious or dangerous to health; the existence of flies or mosquitoes or other insects capable of transmitting or causing disease; the existence of bed bugs, cockroaches or other vermin; the existence of mice, rats or other like rodents; any condition, matter or thing, which in the opinion of the medical officer of health or environmental health officer provides food for or acts as a breeding place for insects or vermin rodents; any gutter or ditch not kept free from bush, grass and weeds and collection of water; any yard or enclosure or other place not kept properly weeded, dry and clean; the presence of empty bottles (broken or otherwise) empty tins, coconut shells, uncovered barrel boxes, or anything that will serve as a receptacle for water or as a breeding place for mosquitoes or other insects; any house not sufficiently supplied with water, having regard to number of occupants and the means of supply thereto; any water supply system which is not maintained in a sanitary manner; any water tap, pipe, or pump or other means of obtaining water which is needlessly allowed to run to waste or under water is allowed to accumulate or become stagnant; any sanitary conveniences not constructed and maintained in accordance with any regulation or law; any water supply system in such a state or condition that the water passing through therein when used for domestic purposes could be injurious to health; any discharge, save in accordance with a valid permit granted by the Public Health Board, into any river, stream, water course, of any other industrial, other noxious matter, whether or not a prescriptive right has been acquired to any such pollution; any workplace injurious to the public health; any chimney, incinerator or other fire sending forth smoke, in such a quantity to be injurious to health or atmospheric pollution or including other gases; any accumulation or deposit of solid waste of human or animal excreta; the carcass of an animal which is not buried or destroyed within 24 hours of the animal’s death; an animal which is kept in such a manner as to become hazardous to health. The Regulations also cover the following matters: abatement of nuisance; expenses in connection with abatement; liability; penalties.