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Public Health Act

CAP 242

28. Penalty for exposure of infected persons and things

Any person who—

(a) while suffering from any infectious disease, wilfully exposes himself
without proper precautions against spreading the said disease in
any street, public place,...
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...shop, inn or public conveyance, or enters any public conveyance without previously notifying the owner,
conductor or driver thereof that he is so suffering; or
(b) being in charge of any person so suffering, so exposes such
sufferer; or...
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... (c) gives, lends, sells, transmits or exposes, without previous
disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags or other things which have
been exposed to infection from any such disease,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding thirty thousand...
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... shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both; and
a person who, while suffering from any such disease, enters any public
conveyance without previously notifying the owner or driver that he is so suffering shall in addition be ordered...
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... by the court to pay such owner and driver the amount
of any loss and expenses they may incur in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act with respect to disinfection of the conveyance:
Provided that no proceedings under this section shall be taken...
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... against persons transmitting with proper precautions any bedding, clothing, rags or other things for the purpose of having the same disinfected.
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