ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Public Health Act
77. Establishment of leper asylums
Edition: 2026-07-10 · In force
77. Establishment of leper asylums
(1)It shall be lawful for the Cabinet Secretary to erect and establish from time to time asylums for the detention of persons removed thereto under this Act, and for the purpose of acquiring sites for the erection and establishment of asylums to appropriate and set apart any unalienated public land, and to order the fencing and enclosing of any land so appropriated and set apart.(2)The establishment of any asylum and boundaries of any land appropriated and set apart for such purpose shall be notified and defined by notice in the Gazette.(3)For the purpose of preventing the spread of leprosy, the Cabinet Secretary may, by order, direct that, from a date named therein until further order, all persons affected with leprosy found within any local area specified in such order shall be removed to and detained in an asylum.