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104. In the event of the death of any person from Action with infectious disease a Health Officer shall take the necessary infectious action to prevent the spread of infection from the corpse. corpses. The clothing, bedding and all personal effects of the deceased, which are liable, in the opinion of the Health Officer, to carry infection, shall be disinfected or, if the Health Officer so orders, be destroyed by fire, and no person shall be entitled to claim compensation as of right for the destruction of any such article.

disinfection

ment of

105. Notwithstanding anything contained in the fore- Recovery going sections, the Council shall have power by officers of of cost of the Sanitary Department to enter and to cleanse and to and pay- disinfect any premises where any person suffering from plague, compensation cholera or smallpox or any other contagious or infectious dis- for damage. ease, is or has been, or is reasonably suspected to have been, recently located, and the Council may recover the cost of such disinfection and cleansing from the house holder; but compen- sation may be given to such house holder for any bedding, clothing or other articles which have been destroyed during such cleansing or disinfection:

Provided that where the case of infection has been duly reported no charge shall be made for the cost of such cleansing and disinfection, and reasonable compensation for property destroyed or damaged shall in such case be given.

Limitation of liability.

106. No matter or thing done by the Council or by Limitation

of liability. any member of the Council, or by any Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector or other person whomsoever acting under the direction of the Council or a Health Officer, shall, if it was done bonâ fide for the purpose of executing this Ordinance, subject them or any of them personally to any action, liability, claim or demand whatsoever: Provided that nothing herein contained shall exempt any person from any proceeding by way of mandamus, injunction, prohibition or other order unless it is expressly so enacted.

Repeals.

107. In the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, Repeal of section 23 and the heading thereto, sub-section (20) of section 39 and Table L of the Schedule are repealed.

Commencement.

Ordinance No. 10

of 1899,

s. 23 and heading, s. 39 (20) and

Table L.

108. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Commence- such date as the Governor shall notify by proclamation as the date of the commencement of this Ordinance.

ment.