Tanzania
Mosquitoes (Control) Act
Chapter 99
- Published in Tanzania Government Gazette
- Commenced on 29 November 1935
- [This is the version of this document at 31 July 2002.]
- [Note: This legislation has been thoroughly revised and consolidated under the supervision of the Attorney General's Office, in compliance with the Laws Revision Act No. 7 of 1994, the Revised Laws and Annual Revision Act (Chapter 356 (R.L.)), and the Interpretation of Laws and General Clauses Act No. 30 of 1972. This version is up-to-date as at 31st July 2002.]
1. Short title and application
This Act may be cited as the Mosquitoes (Control) Act, and shall apply to every township and minor settlement and, if the Minister so directs, to any area within two miles of the boundaries of a township or minor settlement and, if the Minister is satisfied that a source of infection to a populated area is situated outside the limit of two miles, to the area in which that source is situated.2. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context requires otherwise—"approved scheme" means a scheme approved by the Minister in pursuance of the provisions of section 6;"Minister" means the Minister responsible for health;"occupier" means in reference to the particular premises in respect of which the word is used any person occupying or residing in the premises, and includes any tenant, lodger or licensee;"Sanitary Authority" means—(a)as respects townships, the officer appointed to carry out the duties of a Medical Officer of health in the township, and, as respects minor settlements, the medical Officer of Health of the locality in which that settlement is situated; and(b)as respect other areas, any officer whom the Minister may in the order applying this Act to a specified area, or by any subsequent order, empower to carry out the provisions of the Act in that area, and, in default of that order, means the Medical Officer of Health of the locality in which that area is situated.3. Power to prescribe measures for control of mosquitoes
The Minister may make rules prescribing the measures to be taken for the control of mosquitoes (in this Act referred to as the "prescribed measures") by the owners or occupiers of any land or buildings within any of the areas to which this Act applies.4. Duties of occupiers
5. Right of entry
The Sanitary Authority, and any person authorised by him in writing in that behalf, may at any time between the hours of seven in the morning and six in the evening enter upon any land or building within any of the areas to which this Act applies for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say—6. Prosecution of measures on lands
7. Compensation
8. Penalties
History of this document
31 July 2002 this version
Consolidation
29 November 1935
Commenced