Health Legislation

This Act establishes a legal framework for the regulation, development, and promotion of the information and communication technology sector, including provisions for electronic transactions, data protection and cybersecurity.

This Act amends and consolidates the law relating to local government and provides for the matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

This Act makes provision for the registration of persons and for the issue of identity cards, and for purposes connected therewith.

This Act provides for the compilation and maintenance of a population register in respect of the population of Namibia, for the issue of identity documents to persons whose names are included in the population register; and for the matters connected therewith.

The decree creates a technical-administrative division known as a health district for towns, departments, arrondissements and communes. The Health District is the local level for the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health policy.

This Act establishes the legal framework for the issuance, use, and management of national identity cards and birth certificates in Seychelles.

The order M°154/MSP/CAB of 29 December 1994 provides the structure and mandate for the Departmental Directorate for Health ("Direction Departementale de la Santé"); this directorate represents the Ministry of Public Health at the level of the department or the urban community and participates in the elaboration, implementation and evaluation of the National Health policy ( providing the competence of the Department Direction for Health). The subdivisions of this directorate include an Executive Secretariat; an Administrative, Financial and Personnel Management Department; a Family Health Service; a Programming and Health Information Department; a Health Education, Hygiene and Sanitation Department; a Health Education, Hygiene and Sanitation Department; a Pharmacy and Laboratory Department.

This law establishes the national identity card.

This law institutes a national card certifying the holder's identity.

This Act provides provisions on the registration of persons resident in Botswana and provides for matters incidental thereto.

This Act provides for the registration of births and deaths in Zimbabwe.

This Act establishes the legal framework for the production, use, and regulation of national identity cards for citizens of Mauritius.

The law regulates all the aspects regarding civil status matters.

The Act provides for the compulsory registration of births, marriages and deaths.

The law determines which individuals have Nigerien nationality at birth as their nationality of origin. Nigerien nationality is acquired or lost, after birth, by the effect of the present legislation or by decision of the public authority taken under the conditions laid down in this law.

This law provides rules governing the organization of the civil status and various provisions relating to the status of natural persons.

This Act provides for the registration of persons resident in Zimbabwe and for the issue of identity documents; it further imposes obligations regarding the carrying of identity documents.

The Act consolidates the laws relating to the registration of births and deaths in Lesotho. It makes compulsory the registration of the birth of a child, whether born alive or still-born, and of the death of any person dying after the commencement of the Act (section 3). The office of the Registrar General is the general register office for keeping the register of all births and deaths occurring in Lesotho (section 4).

This Act provides for a uniform law for the registration of all births and deaths in Zambia, without distinction of origin or descent; and provides for matters incidental thereto.

The Order makes provision for citizenship of Lesotho, for the acquisition, deprivation and renunciation of citizenship, and for related and connected matters.