Environmental Health

The City’s Health Department is responsible for ensuring the overall public health of the City and for:

• The inspection of food premises, stables, hairdressers and skin penetration premises, lodging houses, caravan park premises and public buildings

• Carrying out food sampling

• Survey and following up communicable and infectious disease notifications

• Immunisation clinics
  

• Monitor dwellings unfit for human habitation and issuing upgrading notices

• Carrying out water sampling of public and semi-public swimming pools (not private)

• Investigating noise, nuisance and vermin complaints

Legislation and Local Laws

The City's Health Section is responsible for administering certain legislation and local laws. The main laws relating to Environmental Health are:

• Health Act 1911

• Food Act 2008

• Food Regulations 2009

• Food Standards Code

• Health Local Laws 2002

• City of Belmont Health (Stables Premises) Local Laws 1999

• Dust and Liquid Waste Local Laws 2007

• Environmental Protection Act 1986

• Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997