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Public and Environmental Health Act 2011
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(1) The Administrator may make regulations under this Act.
(2) A regulation may provide for the following:
(a) the making and implementing of measures and plans to
prevent, monitor or control public health risks;
(b) the prevention or abatement of public health nuisances;
(c) hygiene and sanitation, including the inspection and control of
sanitation;
(d) the supply and quality of drinking water;
(e) the control of animals;
(f) the eradication or control of pests, insects and vermin;
(g) the management and treatment of waste and wastewater;
(h) the storage, or preparation for burial, cremation or other
disposal, of bodies of deceased persons;
(i) medical and dental inspection of school children;
(j) implementing measures to treat and prevent:
(i) diseases; and
(ii) dental and eye defects;
(k) the inspection and control of places and declared activities;
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(l) obtaining, using or disclosing health information.
(3) A regulation may also do any of the following:
(a) prescribe fees payable under this Act;
(b) apply, adopt or incorporate (with or without changes) the
whole or part of a document as in force or existing at a
particular time or from time to time;
(c) provide for the enforcement of a standard, including by
providing that a contravention of the standard is an offence
against a regulation;
(d) provide for an offence against a regulation to be an offence of
strict or absolute liability but not with a penalty exceeding
100 penalty units.