Public Health Act 2010 (NSW)

Public Health Act 2010 No 127

An Act with respect to public health.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act This Act is the Public Health Act 2010.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.

3 Objects (1) The objects of this Act are as follows— (a) to promote, protect and improve public health, (b) to control the risks to public health, (c) to promote the control of infectious diseases, (d) to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, (e) to recognise the role of local government in protecting public health. (f) to monitor diseases and conditions affecting public health. (2) The protection of the health and safety of the public is to be the paramount consideration in the exercise of functions under this Act.

4 Responsibilities of local government relating to environmental health (1) A local government authority has, in relation to its area, the responsibility to take appropriate measures to ensure compliance with the requirements of this Act in relation to private water suppliers, water carters, public swimming pools and spa pools, regulated systems and premises on which skin penetration procedures are carried out (as referred to in Part 3). (2) In particular, a local government authority has the responsibility of appointing authorised officers to enable it to exercise its functions under this Act and ensuring that its authorised officers duly exercise their functions under this Act. (3) In this section— private water supplier means a person who supplies drinking water in the course of a commercial undertaking (other than that of supplying bottled or packaged drinking water), being a person who has not received the water— (a) from any supplier of drinking water referred to in paragraphs (a)–(g) of the definition of supplier of drinking water in section 5(1), or (b) in the form of bottled or packaged water. water carter means a person who receives water from a supplier of drinking water and who supplies drinking water from a water carting vehicle in the course of a commercial undertaking.