(1)
(a) The medical officer of health on receiving notice of a notifiable disease shall forthwith take such steps as are necessary to satisfy himself or herself of the diagnosis and as soon as he or she is satisfied or if he or she remains doubtful as to the diagnosis he or she shall forthwith forward the notification to the Ministry of Health.
(b) The medical officer of health shall keep an accurate record in writing or—
(i) all cases or suspected cases of notifiable disease reported to him or her, and
(ii) of which he or she has knowledge.
(2) The medical officer of health shall have power—
(a) generally to take all steps necessary for giving effect to these Regulations;
(b) to enter any premises;
(c) to examine and inspect any premises and do such things therein or thereto as may be necessary for preventing the spread of disease;
(d) to examine or treat or immunise or cause to be examined or treated or immunised any case or suspected case or carrier of a communicable disease;
(e) to examine or treat or immunise or cause to be examined or treated or immunised any contact;
(f) to isolate contacts or persons attending on a case or carrier or to place them under surveillance, subject to such conditions as the medical officer of health considers necessary. Isolation may be substituted at any time instead of surveillance if the medical officer of health is satisfied that the conditions of surveillance are not being complied with;
(g) to isolate any person suffering from a communicable disease either in the house in which he or she is residing or elsewhere until such time as the patient is no longer infectious;
(h) to disinfect or destroy any clothes, bedding, or other article belonging to a patient or contact which he or she believes capable of transmitting disease;
(i) to declare any premises in which a person suffering from a communicable disease resides to be an infected place and to affix a notice to that effect;
(j) to order the evacuation of any premises or house;
(k) to order removal of any person suffering from a communicable disease from a ship to an isolation station or hospital;
(l) to order the removal to hospital and detention in hospital of any person suffering from a communicable disease until such time as he or she is satisfied that the person is no longer infectious;
(m) to isolate or detain in hospital or elsewhere any person suffering from a communicable disease or any carrier who is capable of taking proper precautions to prevent the spread of disease or to provide himself or herself with proper accommodation or care;
(n) to enter any school and immunise any child or teacher;
(o) to prohibit the sale of any food or milk or ice when he or she believes the consumption of such is likely to cause a communicable disease;
(p) to order the anatomical examination of the body of any person who has died or is believed to have died from a communicable disease;
(q) to order the burial within a specified time of the body of any person who has died or is believed to have died from a communicable disease.