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Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act · s 19

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s 19Apprehension of persons suffering from infectious disease

Any health officer may apprehend and take or cause to be apprehended and taken to a place selected by him any person whom he shall find in any public building, street, place or conveyance or in a shop suffering from or suspected by him to be suffering from an infectious disease. Such person may be detained in such a place until he is no longer in an infectious state.