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Section 57: Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection

Travancore -Cochin Public Health Act,1955State Act of Kerala · Act 16 of 1955

(1) No person who knows that he is suffering from an infectious disease not specified in Part I of this Chapter shall expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in—

(a) any market, theatre or other place of entertainment or assembly, or

(b) any school, college, playground or such other place.

or

(c) any hostel. hotel, boarding house, choultry, rest house or club, or {d) any factory or shop, or

(e) any public conveyance, or

(f) any public bathing place, or

(g) any other place of public resort.

Explanation:—A person shall be deemed to know that he is suffering from an infectious disease within the meaning of this sub-section if he has been informed by the Health Officer or any other officer of the Public Health Department of the Government 91 or of a local authority, not below the rank of Health or Sanitary Inspector or a medical practitioner, that he is so suffering.

(2) No person who has the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from an infectious disease not specified in Part II of this Chapter shall cause or permit that person to expose others to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any place referred to in sub-section (1).

58. Infected persons not to engage m certam trades and occupations—No person shall, while suffermg from, or in circumstances in which he is hkely to spread, any infectious disease—

(a) make, carry or offer for sale, or take any part in the business of making, carrying or offering for sale, any article of food for human consumption; or

(b) engage in any other occupation in a manner likely to carry infection to others without a special permit from the Health Officer of the local authority concerned or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions specified therein.

Where this provision sits

ActTravancore -Cochin Public Health Act,1955
Section57
Marginal noteProhibition of the exposure of other persons to infection
JurisdictionState of Kerala
StatusIn force as published by the source

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