Health Act -- PUBLIC PLACE SANITARY FACILITIES REGULATION

B.C. Reg. 94/82
O.C. 373/82

Filed March 10, 1982

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Health Act

PUBLIC PLACE SANITARY FACILITIES REGULATION

[includes amendments up to B. C. Reg. 181/88]

Interpretation

1 In this regulation:

"public place" means public place of assembly or recreation and includes an amusement park, an arena, a campsite, a church, a community hall and a developed beach, but does not include a neighbourhood park, a school ground or a refreshment stand;

"sanitary facility" means a room containing a toilet, washbasin and ancillary equipment and includes a privy, shower or urinal.

[am. B.C. Regs. 203/83, s. (a); 181/88, ss. 2, 3.]

Access to sanitary facility in public place

2 No person shall operate or cause to be operated a public place unless it contains adequate sanitary facilities to which the public has access.

Maintenance of public sanitary facility

3 No person shall permit the public access to a sanitary facility that is provided by that person for use by the public under section 2 or otherwise unless that facility is maintained so as to prevent a health hazard condition arising.

[am. B.C. Reg. 203/83, s. (b).]

[Provisions of the Health Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 179, relevant to the enactment of this regulation: section 8 (1) (g) and (2) (f)]