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TEMPORARY PUBLIC HEALTH LAW NO.
54 FOR THE YEAR 2002
Published
On Page 4106 of the Official Gazette Edition
No. 4561
Dated 28/8/2002
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Unofficial translation of the articles relevant for the water sector -
Article 3:
Chapter One
The Ministry's Functions
And Responsibilities
The Ministry shall be responsible for all
health affairs in the Kingdom, and its function shall, in particular,
include the following:
A-
Maintain the
public health by providing protective, therapeutic, and supervisory
health services.
B-
Organize the
health services provided by both public and private sectors, and
supervise them.
C-
Provide
health insurance to the nationals, within the limits of the capabilities
available to it.
D-
Set up
educational and training health establishments and institutes affiliated
to the Ministry and supervise their management, with due regard to the
provisions of the relevant legislations in force.
Article 38:
Chapter Eight
Potable Water
The following terms, wherever they occur
in this chapter shall have the meanings assigned thereto below, unless
the contract otherwise indicates:
Potable water:
The water conforming to the technical rule or
to the approved standard specifications
concerning potable water, bottled water, are mineral water.
Water resource:
All public and private underground or surface
Water resources.
Water network:
All facilities, installation, and equipment used
for the treatment and transmission of
water, including the treatment station, distribution tanks, and
reinforcement stations.
Article 39:
The Ministry shall in coordination with
the relevant authorities, and in conformity with its own legislations,
control the potable water, regardless of its source, in order to ensure
its fitness from the health aspect, and take the necessary procedures to
prevent the use of any undrinkable water. This would include the taking
of samples there from and their testing at its laboratories or any other
laboratories approved by it.
Article 40:
No potable water may be imported and
brought into the Kingdom, unless it has been examined and permitted by
the Ministry. The rates to be charged in such case shall be determined
in accordance with the instructions issued by the minister for this
purpose.
Article 41:
The Ministry shall be entitled to control
the following:
A-
Potable
water resources and their networks, in order to ensure that they were
not exposed to pollution.
B-
The method
to be used in the treatment, transmission, distribution, and storage of
potable water, in order to ensure the availability of health conditions
in such processes, including the quality of materials used in the
potable water processes, its transmission, distribution, and packing, as
well as the prevention of using any material that may harm the
consumer's health.
Article 42:
Any person who is responsible for a water
resource, network, station, or potable water bottling factory must
inform the ministry or the water Authority, or both of them, as the case
may be, of the occurrence of any pollution to the water placed under his
supervision.
Article 52:
Chapter Eleven:
Sewage Water
The following terms, wherever they occur
in this chapter, shall have the meanings assigned thereto below, unless
the context otherwise indicates:
Sewage water:
The used water arising from household and
municipal activities, which conform to the conditions set out in the
technical rule, on the relevant standard specifications.
Sewage water network:
All installations, facilities, and
equipment through which the Sewage water flows inside the buildings.
Water treatment station:
All the activities and equipment used in
sewage water treatment, as well as the land on which the said facilities
and equipment are erected, within the limits specified thereto.
Article 53:
A-
The ministry
shall, in coordination with the relevant authorities and in conformity
with its own legislations, control the Sewage water, the Sewage
networks, the internal installation, and the treatment stations, in
order to ensure the availability of health conditions therein and
guarantee that no harm would be caused thereby to the public health.
B-
If it
becomes evident to the ministry that the Sewage water, the networks, the
installations, or the treatment station constitute or may constitute a
threat to public health, then it must take all the necessary measures to
prevent the occurrence of the anticipated detriment to health.
Article 54:
Chapter Twelve:
Professions, Industries, and small
businesses
A-
The
provisions of this chapter shall apply to the professions and
industries, and their practitioners, as well as any other works having
relation with public health, including :
1-
The small
businesses and persons who practice any small professions, such as
groceries, bakeries, restaurants, and the like.
2-
Major
Businesses, which include factories, industries, and the public places
which are frequented by people, and the like.
B- It shall be prohibited to practice any
of the jobs provided for in paragraph (A) of this article, unless the
approval of the Minister of Health or his designee has been obtained,
and after ensuring the availability of the hygienic conditions
prescribed under this law, or any regulations issued in accordance
therewith, or provided that any of such jobs will obtain a license from
the competent and relevant authority, in conformity with the applicable
legislations.
C- The Minister may, at the recommendation
of the physician, cancel the approval granted according to the
provisions of this Article, if it becomes evident that any of the
conditions specified for its granting no longer exist. He may also renew
the approval, when the reasons which led to its cancellation disappear |
