(1) If it appears to the Health officer that the destruction of any hut or shed or of any bedding or other article likely to retain infection is necessary to prevent the spread of any infectious disease, he may, after giving to the owner such previous notice of his intention as may in the circumstances of the case appear to him reasonable, take measures for having such hut or shed and all the materials thereof or as the case may be such bedding or other article destroyed.
(2) Such compensation as the local authority may consider reasonable, shall be paid to any person who in its opinion sustains loss by the destruction of any hut, shed, bedding, or other article under the powers conferred by sub-section (1) but save as provided in this sub-section, no claim for compensation shall lie for any loss or damage caused by any exercise of the powers aforesaid.
9. If, on the application of the Health Officer, the executive authority is satisfied that it is necessary in the interests of public health that a lodging house or any place where articles of food are sold, prepared, stored, exposed for sale, or distributed, should be closed on account of the existence or recent occurrence in such lodging house, or place of a case of infectious disease, the executive authority may by Infected persons not to engage in certain trades and occupations.
Destruction of hut or infected materials to prevent spread of infection.
Closure of lodging houses.
[Act No.XII of 1950] 9 order, direct it to be closed until the expiry of such period as may be specified in the order or until it is certified by the Health Officer to be free from infection.
10. No person shall,-
(1) send or take to any laundry or public wash-house or any public water-course, tank or well, for the purpose of being washed, or to any place for the purpose of being cleaned, any clothing, bedding or other article which he knows to have been exposed to infection from an infectious disease, unless such article has been disinfected by, or to the satisfaction of the Health Officer or unless under instructions from him, it is sent with proper precautions to a laundry for the purpose of disinfection with notice that it has been exposed to infection;
(2) place or cause or permit to be placed in any dustbin or other receptacle for the deposit of refuse any matter which he knows to have been exposed to infection from any infectious disease and which has not been disinfected.