Health Act 1956

Powers and duties of local authorities - Bylaws

64: Bylaws

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"Rules made by local authorities to keep communities healthy and safe"

You live in a community with rules to keep you healthy and safe. Local authorities can make bylaws for many things, like improving public health and preventing nuisances. They can also make rules about buildings and land use.

You might wonder what else they can make bylaws about. They can make rules about things like drainage, sewage, and the cleanliness of buildings. They can also make rules about animals, noxious substances, and offensive trades.

Local authorities have the power to make these bylaws to keep you and your community healthy and safe. These powers are in addition to the powers they already have under other laws.

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Part 2Powers and duties of local authorities
Bylaws

64Bylaws

  1. Every local authority may, for the purposes of this Act, make bylaws for all or any of the following matters, namely:

  2. improving, promoting, or protecting public health, and preventing or abating nuisances:
    1. prescribing the minimum area of land on which a dwellinghouse may be erected in the district of the local authority or any specified part thereof:
      1. prescribing the minimum air space adjacent to any dwellinghouse or to any specified class of dwellinghouse that shall be kept free of buildings or other structures; and generally for preventing the overcrowding of land with buildings:
        1. prescribing for buildings a minimum frontage to a public or private street or road:
              1. regulating drainage and the collection and disposal of sewage, and prescribing conditions to be observed in the construction of approved drains:
                1. with respect to the cleansing of buildings, and the paving and sanitation of yards and other areas appurtenant to buildings:
                  1. regulating the situation of stables, cow sheds, and piggeries:
                    1. regulating the situation and sanitation of stock saleyards:
                          1. regulating, licensing, or prohibiting the keeping of any animals in the district or in any part thereof:
                              1. regulating the handling and storage of noxious substances, or of goods which are or are likely to become offensive:
                                1. regulating the situation of buildings used for or in connection with offensive trades:
                                  1. regulating the conduct of offensive trades, and of manufactures and processes which may be offensive or dangerous to the persons employed in or about the same or injurious to health:
                                    1. making provision for the proper cleansing, ventilation, sanitation (including the provision of sanitary conveniences available for the use of the public), and disinfection of theatres, halls, and churches, and of places of public resort, and requiring such buildings and places to be closed for admission to the public at such intervals and during such periods as may be deemed necessary to enable such cleansing, ventilation, and disinfection to be effectively undertaken:
                                      1. regulating and prescribing the cleansing and renovation of public conveyances:
                                        1. prescribing the sanitary precautions to be adopted in respect of any business or trade:
                                          1. for preventing the outbreak or spread of disease by the agency of flies, mosquitoes, or other insects, or of rats, mice, or other vermin:
                                            1. for the protection from pollution of food intended for human consumption and of any water supply:
                                              1. regulating the sending forth of smoke from the funnels of ships, and from chimneys other than the chimneys of private dwellinghouses:
                                                1. providing for the inspection of any land or premises for the purposes of this Act:
                                                  1. generally, for the more effectual carrying out of any of the provisions of this Act relating to the powers and duties of local authorities.
                                                    1. The powers conferred by this section are in addition to the powers conferred on any local authority by any other Act.

                                                    Notes
                                                    • Section 64(1)(a): amended, on , by section 3(3) of the Health and Disability Services Amendment Act 1995 (1995 No 84).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(e): repealed, on , by section 92(1) of the Building Act 1991 (1991 No 150).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(f): repealed, on , by section 92(1) of the Building Act 1991 (1991 No 150).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(g): amended, on , by section 92(1) of the Building Act 1991 (1991 No 150).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(h): amended, on , by section 92(1) of the Building Act 1991 (1991 No 150).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(i): amended, on , by section 92(1) of the Building Act 1991 (1991 No 150).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(j): amended, on , by section 92(1) of the Building Act 1991 (1991 No 150).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(k): repealed, on , by section 9(1) of the Local Government Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 59).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(l): repealed, on , by section 9(1) of the Local Government Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 59).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(n): repealed, on , by section 9(1) of the Local Government Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 59).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(p): amended, on , by section 92(1) of the Building Act 1991 (1991 No 150).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(p): amended, on , by section 56(1) of the Clean Air Act 1972 (1972 No 31).
                                                    • Section 64(1)(q): amended, on , by section 56(1) of the Clean Air Act 1972 (1972 No 31).