Health Legislation

This law determines the distribution of powers between the State and decentralized local authorities.

The Act establishes and regulates a decentralised local government system for the Gambia; it makes provision for the functions, powers and duties of local authorities and for matters connected therewith.

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.

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

This decree established the national identity card.

The Decree institutes a national identity card.