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Section 48

The Puducherry (Public) Health Act, 1973Union territory Act of Puducherry · Act 5 of 1974

(1) No person who knows that he is suffering from a notifiable disease shall –

(a) enter any public conveyance used for the conveyance of persons at separate fares; or 53

(b) enter any other public conveyance without previously notifying the owner or driver thereof that he is so suffering.

(2) No person having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notifiable disease shall permit that person to be carried –

(a) in any public conveyance used for the conveyance of persons at separate fares; or

(b) in any other public conveyance without previously notifying the owner or driver thereof that person is so suffering.

(3) The owner, driver or conductor of a public conveyance used for the conveyance of persons at separate fares shall not convey therein any person whom he knows to be suffering from a notifiable disease except in such cases of emergency and subject to such restrictions and safeguards as may be prescribed by the Government.

(4) A local authority when so requested by the person in charge of a public conveyance in which a person suffering from a communicable disease has been conveyed shall provide for its disinfection.

Letting or sub-letting a building occupied by an infected person

49. No person shall, without a special permit from the Health Officer, let or sub-let, or permit or suffer any prospective tenant to enter a building in which he knows or has reason to know that a person has been suffering from a communicable disease, within the three months, immediately preceding.

Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection

Where this provision sits

ActThe Puducherry (Public) Health Act, 1973
Section48
JurisdictionUnion territory of Puducherry
StatusIn force as published by the source

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