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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 212

212 .         Issue of improvement notice

                An authorised officer may give an improvement notice to a person if the officer reasonably believes that —

            (a)         the person —

                  (i)         is carrying on a public health risk activity that contravenes, or is likely to contravene, any provision of this Act; or

                  (ii)         is carrying on a public health risk activity in a manner that contravenes, or is likely to contravene, any provision of this Act; or

                  (iii)         has carried on a public health risk activity that contravened, or in a manner that contravened, any provision of this Act in circumstances that make it likely that the contravention will continue or be repeated;

                or

            (b)         the person —

                  (i)         is carrying on an activity that poses a public health risk or that is carried on in a manner that poses a public health risk; and

                  (ii)         has failed to take reasonable and practicable steps to prevent or minimise any harm to public health;

                or

            (c)         the person is failing, or has failed, to comply with the general public health duty; or

            (d)         the person is the occupier of premises where —

                  (i)         a public health risk activity is being carried on that contravenes, or is likely to contravene, any provision of this Act; or

                  (ii)         a public health risk activity is being carried on in a manner that contravenes, or is likely to contravene, any provision of this Act; or

                  (iii)         a public health risk activity has been carried on, or carried on in a manner, that contravened any provision of this Act in circumstances that make it likely that the contravention will continue or be repeated;

                or

            (e)         the person is the occupier of premises where —

                  (i)         an activity is being carried on that poses a public health risk or that is carried on in a manner that poses a public health risk; and

                  (ii)         reasonable and practicable steps to prevent or minimise any harm to public health have not been taken;

                or

            (f)         the person is the occupier of premises where there is or has been a failure to comply with the general public health duty.



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