Health Legislation

The Public Health Act repeals, re-enacts, consolidates and amends the law relating to public health in Botswana.

This Act provides for the promotion, preservation and maintenance of public health with a view to ensuring the provisions of comprehensive, functional and sustainable public health services to the general public; and provides for other related measures.

This Act empowers the President of Botswana to make emergency regulations whenever an emergency proclamation is in force. It also specifies the matters which may be provided for in emergency regulations; provides the duration of emergency regulations, and provides for the matters incidental thereto or connected therewith.

This Act makes better provision for the control and prevention of the spread of the tsetse flies; and provides for matters incidental thereto.