Section 143: Information in relation to cholera, small-pox, etc.

The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Act, 2000Union territory Act of Jammu and Kashmir · Act 20 of 2000

Whoever,––

(a) being a medical practitioner or a person openly and constantly practising the medical profession, and in the course of such practice becoming cognizant of the existence of any infectious disease in any dwelling other than a public hospital ; or

(b) being the owner or occupier of such dwelling and being cognizant of the existence of the disease therein ; or

(c) being the person incharge of or in attendance on any person suffering from any such disease in such dwelling and being cognizant of the existence of the disease therein ;

fails forthwith to give information, or knowingly gives false information to the Health Officer or to any other officer to whom the municipality may require information to be given respecting the existence of such disease, shall be punishable with a fine which shall not be less than one hundred rupees and more than one thousand rupees.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Act, 2000
Section	143
Marginal note	Information in relation to cholera, small-pox, etc.
Jurisdiction	Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir
Status	In force as published by the source

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