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73.-(1) Any person required under this Ordinance or Delay in any regulation made thereunder to give information of any notificatio infectious disease, or of any death from infectious disease, notify or

who neglects without reasonable excuse to give such giving false

information with the least practicable delay, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

(2) Any person who knowingly omits or refuses to give any information which he is required to give, or who furnishes as true information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

(3) When any person is charged with neglecting to give information of any infectious disease or any death from an infectious disease he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of such disease, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court before which he is charged that he had no such knowledge and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.

information.

be furnished

74. When any medical practitioner in attendance on Notice of any person suffering from infectious disease is satisfied that recovery to such person has so far recovered as, in the opinion of such to Health medical practitioner, to be no longer a source of infection to others, such medical practitioner shall notify a Health Officer in writing to that effect.

(b) Power of Entry for Search, Examination & Detention.

Officer.

entry for

75. (1) A Health Officer may enter and search, or Fower of direct a Sanitary Inspector to enter and search, any building search and or enclosure for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is examination. any person suffering from infectious disease or contacts there- in and may cause any persons found therein to be examined in order to ascertain whether any of them are infected or have recently been infected.

(2) A Health Officer may further cause any person to be detained for medical examination and may segregate in such place as he may appoint for the purpose any person found to be or suspected to be infected,

(3) A Health Officer or any officer duly authorized by him, may at any time enter any premises for the purpose of examining, and may examine, any dead body where he has reason to believe that the cause of death has not been certified by a duly qualified medical practitioner or has doubt as to the diagnosis made, and he may if he thinks fit order the removal of such body to any place if such removal is in his opinion necessary for the further examination of the body.

to enter and inspect

premises.

(4)—(a) If admission to premises for any of the purposes Power of

magistrate specified in this section is refused, any magistrate on complaint to authorise thereof on oath by any officer authorised by this section to officer enter and inspect premises (made after reasonable notice in writing of the intention to make the same has been given to the person having custody of the premises, if such person there be) may, by order under his hand, require the person having the custody of the premises to admit any officer entitled under this section to inspect the same into the premises, and, if no such person can be found, the magistrate shall, on oath before him of that fact, by order under his hand authorise any such officer to enter the premises.