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(5) The Governor shall decide in each case whether the compensation, if any, is to be paid to the owner or occupier, and payment in accordance with the decision of the Governor shall bar any further claim to compensation by owner or occupier.

Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the rights of the owners or occupiers inter se as to the ultimate apportionment of any compensation awarded.

and dis-

as a check

101. If a Health Officer is of opinion that the cleansing Cleansing or disinfection of a building or part of a building or of any infection article therein likely to retain infection would tend to prevent of buildings or check the spread of any infectious disease, leprosy or to the spread tuberculosis, he may by notice in writing require the owner or of disease. occupier to cleanse or disinfect the same in the manner therein specified.

Owner

Health

102. When in the opinion of a Health Officer the Power of or occupier is from poverty or otherwise unable Officer to effectually to carry out the said requirements, the Health cleanse and Officer may cleanse or disinfect or cause to be cleansed or buildings disinfected the building or buildings or part of the same and and their any articles therein at the expense of the Government.

disinfect

contents,

with or

103.—(1) After the removal of any person suffering Disinfection from an infectious disease from any house à Health Officer of premises shall cause the room which such person occupied, and any without other portion of the house which such Health Officer deems to after be infected, to be thoroughly disinfected, and the house may removal be closed for such period as he may direct.

(2) No person except a Health Officer or persons authorised by him shall enter such room or house during such period.

closure

of cases.

104. In the event of the death of any person from Action with infectious disease a Health Officer shall take the necessary infectious regard to 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

and pay- ment of for damage.

compensation

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 disinfect any premises where any person suffering from plague, cholera or smallpox or any other contagious or infectious disease, 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 compensation 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.

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