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Public and Environmental Health Act 2011
61Action if public health nuisance exists
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61 Action if public health nuisance exists If an authorised officer who decides a public health nuisance exists is not, after making reasonable inquiry, able to locate an appropriate person to issue a public health notice for the nuisance, the CHO must: (a) take the action the CHO considers necessary to abate the public health nuisance or implement adequate measures to prevent or remove the source of the nuisance; or (b) direct another authorised officer to take the action.