(1) Whoever-
(a) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act specified in the first and second columns of Schedule I, or
(b) contravenes any rule or order made under any of the provisions so specified, or
(c) fails to comply with any direction lawfully given to him, or any requisition lawfully made upon him, under or in pursuance of any of the said provisions, shall be punished with fine which may extend to the amount mentioned in that behalf in the fourth column of the said Schedule.
(2) Whoever after having been convicted of,-
(a) contravening any of the provisions of this Act specified in the first and second columns of Schedule II, or
(b) contravening any rule or order made under any of the provisions so specified, or
(c) failing to comply with any direction lawfully given to him or any requisition lawfully made upon him, under or in pursuance of any of the said provisions, continues to contravene the said provision or the said rule or order, or continues to fail to comply with the said direction or requisition, shall be punished for each day after the previous date of conviction during which he continues so to offend, with fine which may extend to the amount mentioned in that behalf in the fourth column of the said Schedule.
Penalties for offences.
22 [Act No.XII of 1950]
Explanation:- The entries in the third column of Schedules I and II headed „Subject‟ are not intended as definitions of the offences described in the provisions specified in the first and second columns thereof, or even as abstracts of those provisions, but are inserted merely as references to the subject dealt with therein.
26. Government may by notification in the 7[Official Gazette] make rules consistent with this Act for the carrying out of the purposes thereof.
27. Any provision of law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act which is inconsistent with this Act shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, cease to have effect save as respects things done or omitted to be done before the commencement of this Act.
7. Substituted for “Jarida” by the A.P.A.O. 1957.
Rules.
Inconsistent provisions of law to cease to have effect.
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SCHEDULE I ORDINARY PENALTIES [See section 25 (1)] Section Subsection or clause subject Fine which may be imposed 3 .. Failure to give information of infectious disease or mortality among rats, etc.
Fifty rupees 6 .. Exposing other persons to infection.
Twenty-five rupees 7 (a) Infected persons carrying on trade in articles of food.
Fifty rupees
(b) Infected persons engaging in other occupations without permits.
Fifty rupees 9 .. Failure to close lodging houses, etc.
One hundred rupees 10 .. Sending infected clothes to a laundry or depositing infected articles in a receptacle for refuse matter.
Fifty rupees 11 (1), (2)
(3) & (5) Using or permitting use of public conveyance by an infected person.
Fifty rupees 12 .. Letting or sub-letting of infected building without a permit.
Fifty rupees 24 [Act No.XII of 1950]
SCHEDULE I – (contd.)
ORDINARY PENALTIES [See section 25 (1)] Section Subsection or clause subject Fine which may be imposed 13 (1) Failure to comply with notice forbidding work in infected premises Fifty rupees 14 .. Use of books from public libraries by infected persons, etc.
Fifty rupees 15 (1), (2),
(4) & (5) Delay in disposing of dead body of an infected person or allowing others unnecessarily to come into contact with it, etc., etc.
Fifty rupees 17 .. Failure to comply with order prohibiting assemblages of 50 or more persons.
One hundred rupees 18 (1) Failure to take steps for the destruction of rats, mice, etc.
Twenty rupees
(2) Failure to comply with notice for destruction of rats, mice, etc.
Fifty rupees 24 .. Failure to comply with notice prohibiting the use of unwholesome water.
One hundred rupees.
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SCHEDULE II PENALTIES FOR CONTINUING BREACHES.
[See Section 25 (2)] Section Subsection or clause Subject Fine which may be imposed 6 .. Exposing other persons to infection.
Ten rupees 7 (a) Infected persons engaging in other occupations without permit do
(b) Infected persons carrying on trade in articles of food.
do 9 .. Failure to close lodging houses, etc.
Twenty rupees.
13 (1) Failure to comply with notice forbidding work in infected premises.
Ten rupees.
19 (1) Failure to take steps for the destruction of rats, mice, etc.
Five rupees.
(2) Failure to comply with notice for the destruction of rats, mice, etc.
do 24 Failure to comply with notice prohibiting the use of unwholesome water.
Twenty rupees.
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