(1) No person who knows that he is suffering from leprosy shall, until he is certified by an authorised practitioner to be non-infectious and to have been so for a period of not less than three months, engage hunself or accept any employment—
(i) as a cook, attendant, workman, salesman, server, or carrier in any place where food 1s sold to members of the public or 1s prepared or stored for such sale;
(1) as a worker tending on or milking cows, buffaloes or goats whose milk is to be sold or distributed to members of the public, or as a seller or distributor of milk to members of the public;
(i) as a driver or conductor of a public conveyance;
(iv) as a public servant; or
(v) in any other capacity which, in the opinion of the Health Officer, involves deleterious contact with other persons not suffering from leprosy.
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(2) No person who knows that he is suffering from leprosy shall, until he 1s certified by an authorized practitioner to be non-infectious and to have been so for a period of not less than six months,—
(a) attend any school, college, playground or other similar place either as a teacher or as a member of the staff employed therein; or
(b) engage himself or accept any employment—
(1) as a doctor, nurse, midwife, ayah or orderly,
(11) as a barber or haur-dresser,
(iii) as a tailor,
(iv) as a dhobi or launderer,
(v) as a house servant, personal attender or a peon,
(vi) in any other capacity which, in the opinion of Health Officer, involves deleterious contact with children.
(3) No one who has the care of any person whom he knows to be suffering from leprosy shall cause or permit such person to engage himself or accept any employment in any of the capacities referred to in sub-section (1) or to attend any place or engage himself or accept any employment in any of the capacities referred to in sub-section (2), until he is certified by an authorized practitioner as set forth in sub-section (1), or sub-section (2), as the case may he.
(4) No one shall engage or employ any person whom he knows to be suffering from leprosy in any of the capacities referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2) until he is certified by an authorised practitioner as set forth in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may he.