(1) If it appears to the Health Officer that any person is suffering from an infectious disease, and that such person,-
(a) (i) is without proper lodging or accommodation, or
(ii) is lodged in a place occupied by more than one family, or
(iii) is without medical supervision directed to the prevention of the spread of the disease, or
(iv) is in a place where his presence is a danger to the people in the neighbourhood; and
(b) should be removed to a hospital or other place at which patients suffering from such diseases are received for treatment the Health Officer may remove such person or cause him to be removed to such hospital or place.
(2) If any women who, according to custom, does not appear in public, is removed to any such hospital or place:-
(i) the removal shall be effected in such a way as to preserve her privacy; and
(ii) special accommodation shall be provided for her in such hospital or place.
(3) No person shall leave, or be taken away from any hospital or other place referred to in sub-section (1) without Removal of infected persons to hospital.
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(4) Whoever,-
(a) obstructs the removal of any person to any hospital or other place under sub-section (1), or
(b) leaves or takes away any person from, any such hospital or place in contravention of sub-section (3) shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to, three months, or with fine not exceeding hundred rupees or with both.
6. No person who knows that he is suffering from an infectious disease shall expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in,–
(a) any street or public place,
(b) any market, theatre or other place of entertainment or assembly, or
(c) any school, college, play ground or other similar place, or
(d) any hotel, hostel, boarding house, choultry resthouse or club, or
(e) any factory or shop.
Explanation:- A person shall be deemed to know that he is suffering from an infectious disease within the meaning of this section if he has been informed by the Health Officer or any other officer of the Public Health Department of the Government not below the rank of a Health Inspector, or by a medical practitioner that he is so suffering.
Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection.
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7. No person shall, while suffering from, or in circumstances in which he is likely 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;
(b) engage in any other occupation without a special permit from the Health Officer of the local authority concerned or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions specified therein.