Vidhi Codex

The Puducherry Public Health Act, 1973

The Puducherry Public Health Act, 1973

Health1973159 sections

The Puducherry (Public) Health Act, 1973 establishes a comprehensive legal framework for managing and protecting public health across the Union Territory of Puducherry. It regulates essential infrastructure such as wholesome public water supply, drainage, community waste collection, and sanitation. The law governs local authorities, medical institutions, commercial food businesses, lodging facilities, and individual residents. It empowers health officials to control communicable disease outbreaks through mandatory isolation, compulsory immunizations, inspections, and movement restrictions. By mandating sanitary housing standards, regulating offensive trades, controlling insect breeding, and managing fairs and burial grounds, this Act ensures high public health standards and protects community safety.

Start reading →Read full ActSections
  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Board of Health
  4. 4. Functions of the Board
  5. 5. Meetings of the Board
  6. 6. Committees
  7. 7. Powers of the Government
  8. 8. Powers of the Director
  9. 9. Public health establishment of local authorities
  10. 10. Health Officers
  11. 11. Appointment of persons to carry out the provisions of this Act
  12. 12. Health Officer’s control over public health staff
  13. 13. Definitions
  14. 14. Registration
  15. 15. Refusal to register
  16. 16. Cancellation of registration
  17. 17. Appeal
  18. 18. Entry and inspection
  19. 19. Government’s control
  20. 20. Local authority to provide water supply
  21. 21. Power of Government to direct local authority to execute water works
  22. 22. Power of Government to divert water from water main belonging to a local authority
  23. 23. Water supply by pipe system
  24. 24. Supply for non-domestic purpose
  25. 25. Contracts for bulk supply
  26. 26. Loans
  27. 27. Services of Chief Public Health Engineer
  28. 28. Use of private lands
  29. 29. Other sources of water supply
  30. 30. Private tube-wells
  31. 31. Survey of water sources
  32. 32. Joint Water Board
  33. 33. Pollution of water
  34. 34. Rules for protection, examination and maintenance of water supply
  35. 35. Communicable or infectious diseases in general
  36. 36. Duty of the local authority
  37. 37. Jurisdiction over boats, vessels, vans, tents, etc.
  38. 38. Notified communicable diseases
  39. 39. Obligation to notify
  40. 40. Prohibition of the use of water from suspected source
  41. 41. Control of patients
  42. 42. Exposure of persons and articles
  43. 43. Infected persons not to engage in certain trades and occupations
  44. 44. Prevention of communicable disease transmissible from animals
  45. 45. Powers of Health Officers
  46. 46. Destruction of hut or shed to prevent spread of infection
  47. 47. Infected clothes not to be sent to laundry
  48. 48. Use of public conveyance
  49. 49. Letting or sub-letting a building occupied by an infected person
  50. 50. Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection
  51. 51. Forbidding work in infected premises
  52. 52. Prohibition of use of public library by infected person
  53. 53. Disposal of bodies of persons dying while suffering from communicable disease
  54. 54. Compulsory immunisation
  55. 55. Restriction on movement
  56. 56. Closure of certain places
  57. 57. Power of Magistrate to prohibit assembly of persons
  58. 58. Power of Government to confer special powers on officers to control notified diseases
  59. 59. Destruction of rats, mice, etc.
  60. 60. Special provision for small-pox
  61. 61. Venereal diseases
  62. 62. Rules for prevention, treatment and control of disease
  63. 63. Maternity and child welfare
  64. 64. Local Authority to provide for collection and disposal of community wastes
  65. 65. Definitions
  66. 66. Joint Water and Drainage Board
  67. 67. Improvement or extension of works
  68. 68. Execution of the scheme and maintenance
  69. 69. Acquisition and use of private lands and buildings
  70. 70. The control and administration of public drains and sewerage disposal
  71. 71. Discharge of sewerage or waste water
  72. 72. Restriction on discharge of trade affluents and waste
  73. 73. Permission to construct septic tank and sanitary latrines
  74. 74. Common privies
  75. 75. Nuisance from offensive matters
  76. 76. Responsibility of the local authority to provide public latrines, urinals and dust bins
  77. 77. Cleaning of roads and roadside drains
  78. 78. Disposal of carcasses
  79. 79. The local authority to provide establishment, equipment and control and supervision
  80. 80. Duties of local authorities
  81. 81. Levy of sanitation tax
  82. 82. Combination and control
  83. 83. Survey of housing and sanitation
  84. 84. Notification of residential areas
  85. 85. Planning of residential area
  86. 86. Building regulations
  87. 87. Prohibition of the use of building
  88. 88. Slum area
  89. 89. Building Regulations Advisory Committee
  90. 90. Provisions supplementary to other enactments
  91. 91. Requirement as to licences
  92. 92. Prohibition of sale of unsound food
  93. 93. Inspecting Officers
  94. 94. Seizure and destruction of decomposed and unwholesome food stuff
  95. 95. Flesh of dead animal not to be consumed
  96. 96. Restrictions on sale of meat from outside
  97. 97. Rules
  98. 98. What are nuisances
  99. 99. Removal of nuisances
  100. 100. Information regarding nuisance
  101. 101. Power to Health Officer to abate nuisance
  102. 102. Restrictions on the use of buildings
  103. 103. Notification of offensive trade
  104. 104. Licensing of offensive trade
  105. 105. Notification of areas for offensive trades, and licensing, for such purposes
  106. 106. Local authority to provide sufficient land for such purposes
  107. 107. Removal of offensive trades to reserved areas
  108. 108. Provision for drinking water etc.
  109. 109. Sanitary conveniences
  110. 110. Disposal of trade wastes and levy of charges
  111. 111. Powers of entry and inspection
  112. 112. Prohibition of the deposit of rubbish etc., in the street etc.
  113. 113. Rules necessary for implementation
  114. 114. Notification of areas
  115. 115. Notice of fair or festival and particulars
  116. 116. Provision of sanitary arrangements and medical relief arrangements
  117. 117. Power of supervision of arrangements
  118. 118. Power of entry and seizure of food
  119. 119. Power of acquisition of building for an emergency
  120. 120. Power of Director of Health Services
  121. 121. Power of Government
  122. 122. Notification
  123. 123. Licence
  124. 124. Control of such notified places
  125. 125. Registration and licensing
  126. 126. Power of entry
  127. 127. Conditions for grant of licence etc.
  128. 128. Local authority to provide place for recreation, sports field, pasture land, etc.
  129. 129. Acquisition of land and disposal
  130. 130. Competent authority
  131. 131. Duties of competent authorities
  132. 132. Insecticidal spraying
  133. 133. Duties and responsibilities of owners and occupiers
  134. 134. Power of local authority/Government
  135. 135. Information regarding any insect-borne disease in epidemic form
  136. 136. Local authorities to provide burial and burning grounds
  137. 137. Private burning and burial ground licensing of
  138. 138. Certification of death
  139. 139. Registration of deaths
  140. 140. Prohibition of use of other places
  141. 141. Disposal of unclaimed bodies
  142. 142. Government to control by rules
  143. 143. Power to make rules
  144. 144. General power to make bye-laws
  145. 145. Provisions with respect to bye-laws
  146. 146. Bye-laws to be available for inspection
  147. 147. Service of notices
  148. 148. Publication of notices and orders
  149. 149. Power of entry and inspection
  150. 150. Power to give direction
  151. 151. Delegation
  152. 152. Employees of local authorities to be public servants
  153. 153. Protection of action taken under Act
  154. 154. Effect of Act
  155. 155. Removal of difficulties
  156. 156. Repeal
  157. 157. Penalties
  158. 67(4). Section 67(4)
  159. 67(5). Section 67(5)

PDF: pending for this language.