The following dispositions founded in the subsidiary legislation are example of how
the Government has endeavoured to accomplish with this human right, in
congruency with the dispositions of the Constitution.
Public Health Act, 18/01/1960, Laws of Seychelles 1996.
Section 3: "Every medical officer of health shall take all practicable measures for ensuring
cleanliness and sanitation and for the prevention of disease and for the maintenance and
improvement of the health of members of the public and in particular shall administer and enforce,
as far as practicable all the provisions of this and any other Act relating to public health".
Part VII - Notification of notifiable disease.
Section 32: "The Minister may make regulations […] to provide for the notification of notifiable
disease in remote parts of Seychelles".
Section 33.6: "Every person required by this section to give a notice or certificate who fails to give
the same is liable to a fine […]".
Part VIII - Prevention and suppression of infectious disease. This part of the Act
regulates among others, prevention of introduction of infectious diseases, removal
and isolation of infectious patients and persons likely to be infected and, disinfecting
of premises, buildings and vessels.
Part IX - Control of formidable epidemic disease. In this part the Act includes
diseases such as cholera, plague, meningitis, typhus, yellow fever, etceteras, and all
the measures to be taken by the government, medical officers and the whole
population in the event of it.
Medical Appeal Boards Act, 28/12/1977.Laws of Seychelles
This Act applies directly to the work of officers of health. The board has been
established to deal with complains and issues of certain legal concern in the practice
of the public medicine. The Second Schedule of the Act regulates those specific
cases in which an appeal lies to the Board.
Section 4: "Every person who has been examined medically by or in relation to whom a medical
decision or opinion has been given by a government medical officer or a government dentist in any
way of the cases set out in the second schedule to this act and who is not satisfied with such
examination, decision or opinion shall be entitled to appeal to the board".
Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act, 1994. Laws of Seychelles 1996
(Amended by the amendment of 8/10/1998)