Cap. 465 Art. 27Powers of the Superintendent.

The Superintendent may make, vary or revoke orders:

(a) (i) listing and categorising notifiable disease conditions;

(ii) declaring an organism to be a human pathogenic organism;

(iii) declaring a substance to be a contaminant;

(b) controlling advertisements that may affect public health and in particular:

(i) controlling the visual, audio and written content thereof;

(ii) controlling the layout and sequence of events of the advertisements;

(iii) regulating the persons or class of persons used in the advertisements;

(iv) requiring a written permission from the Superintendent before the publication of an advertisement;

(c) prescribing measures to guard against or to control dangerous epidemics or infectious disease and in particular:

(i) regulating the prompt internment of the dead;

(ii) regulating the power to inspect premises;

(iii) regulating the provision of medical aid, the distribution of medicine, the establishment of hospitals, the promotion of cleansing, ventilation and disinfection and otherwise for guarding against the spread of disease and for the treatment of persons suffering therefrom;

(iv) regulating occupancy in premises or any parts thereof to prevent them from being so overcrowded as to be dangerous to health;

(v) prescribing such other matter as the Superintendent may deem expedient for the prevention or mitigation of such disease: Provided that the power of the Superintendent to prescribe such other matter as the Superintendent may deem expedient for the prevention or mitigation of such disease shall include and shall be deemed to have always included the power to provide for any matter which is ancillary or consequential to an order issued under this paragraph including the suspension of any time limits including, but not limited to, legal or judicial time limits, which shall be deemed to include periods of prescription, and any peremptory time limits provided for in any other law as a consequence of the order for the closure of government departments or other places from where public services are provided or of any other order issued under this paragraph as the Superintendent deems expedient;

(d) ensuring the protection of the public by immunisation against particular diseases and in particular may by such order:

(i) regulate and control the practice of any particular type of immunisation in humans;

(ii) prescribe forms, certificates, notices, immunisation certificates and postponement certificates;

(iii) prescribe those diseases against which immunisation of humans shall be compulsory;

(iv) regulate and control the importation, exportation, manufacture, storage and transport of any type of vaccine;

(v) publish schedules regarding compulsory or recommended immunisations;

(e) (i) specifying the qualifications or conditions necessary for a person to qualify for a registration or a licence under this Act;

(ii) specifying the criteria and conditions for the licensing or registration of premises or persons under this Act;

(f) (i) requiring the medical examination of persons exposed or believed to have been exposed to radiation;

(ii) providing measures to be taken in case of a public health emergency caused by any type of radiation;

(g) giving any other direction that is or may be given by the Superintendent under this Act.