Infectious Diseases Act · 2023 Revised Edition · Part · Control of Infectious Diseases
22. Certain persons not to act in manner likely to spread disease
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
A person who knows or has reason to suspect that he is a case or carrier or contact of a disease set out in Schedule 5 shall not expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any public place or any other place used in common by persons other than the members of his own family or household.
carrier
“carrier”, in relation to any infectious disease, means any person who is harbouring, or is likely to or is suspected to harbour, the agents of that disease;
A person having the care of another person whom he knows or has reason to suspect is a case or carrier or contact of a disease set out in
contact
“contact”, in relation to any infectious disease, means any person who has been exposed to the risk of infection from that disease;
Schedule 5 shall not cause or permit that person to expose other persons to the risk of infection by that person’s presence or conduct in any such place.
A person shall not lend, sell, transmit or expose, without previous disinfection, any clothing, bedding or rags which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a disease set out in Schedule 5, or any other article which he knows to have been so exposed and which is liable to carry such infection.
Any person who contravenes subsection (1), (2) or (3) is guilty of an offence.
A person shall not incur any liability for contravening subsection (1) if his presence or conduct in a place mentioned in that subsection is necessary for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment.
Where the Director-General has designated a hospital or other place for the treatment of the disease, subsection (5) only applies in relation to the obtaining of medical treatment at the designated hospital or place.
Director-General
“Director-General” means the Director-General of Health Services;
A person shall not incur any liability for contravening subsection (3) by transmitting with proper precautions any article for the purpose of having it disinfected.
Infectious Diseases
Terms defined in s 2
carrier
Defined · s 2“carrier”, in relation to any infectious disease, means any person who is harbouring, or is likely to or is suspected to harbour, the agents of that disease;
contact
Defined · s 2“contact”, in relation to any infectious disease, means any person who has been exposed to the risk of infection from that disease;
Director-General
Defined · s 2“Director-General” means the Director-General of Health Services;
public place
Defined · s 2“public place” means any place or premises to which the public or any section of the public has access, on payment or otherwise, as of right or by virtue of express or implied permission, and includes any place or premises used by the public or a section of the public for educational or recreational purposes or for assemblage;
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