A person shall not—
(a) while suffering from a communicable disease expose himself or herself in any public place, or public resort, or enter any public conveyance;
(b)
(i) knowing or suspecting that he or she is suffering from a communicable disease or is a carrier engage in any of the trades or callings specified in Schedule 3,
(ii) employ a person, knowing that he or she is a person suffering or suspected to be suffering from one of the diseases mentioned in the Schedule, in any of the trades or callings mentioned in schedule 3;
(c) knowing or suspecting that he or she is suffering from, or is a contact, or is a carrier of a communicable disease, enter or take or use any book, magazine or paper from any public library;
(d) enter any house in which a person has died from a communicable disease before such house has been disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health;
(e) enter or leave any isolation station in which a patient or contact suffering from a communicable disease is isolated until and unless authorised to do so;
(f) being the parent or guardian of a child suffering or suspected to be suffering from a communicable disease or a contact, permit such child to attend any school without first having procured from a medical practitioner or medical officer a certificate stating that, in his or her opinion, the child may attend school without undue risk of communicating the disease to others;
(g) being the head teacher of any school—
(i) knowing or suspecting any child in the school is suffering from a communicable disease, permit such child to attend school until a certificate is presented to him or her signed by a registered medical practitioner stating that in his or her opinion the child may attend school without undue risk of communicating the disease to others,
(ii) accept on first entry into any such school any child under 6 years unless such child is in possession of a certificate signed by a registered medical practitioner or a person duly authorised by him or her for the purpose that he or she has been immunized against the diseases specified in Schedule 4,
Provided that a certificate of immunization against any of the diseases specified in Schedule 4 shall not be required in the case of a child—
(a) who is in possession of a certificate from a registered medical practitioner stating that the child has suffered from any such disease or that immunization against any such disease is not advisable on medical grounds; or
(b) (Deleted by S.I. 19/2020)
(h) give, lend, sell, transmit, or expose without previous disinfection, any article which has been exposed to infection;
(i) return to any library any book or paper or magazine which he or she knows has been exposed to infections from a communicable disease, but shall give notice as to having such a book in his or her possession to the medical officer of health;
(j) take or send to any laundry any bedding, clothes or other articles which he or she knows to have been exposed to infection from a communicable disease unless they have first been disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health;
(k) cast or permit to be cast into dust bin any rubbish or refuse from any house in which there is a case of communicable disease unless it has been previously disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health;
(l) fail on giving up the occupancy of a house in which there has been residing within the previous 8 weeks a person suffering from a communicable disease, to—
(i) have such house and all articles therein disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health,
(ii) give to the owner notice of the existence of such a person,
(iii) answer truthfully any question of the owner as to the existence of such a person;
(m) let for hire any house knowing that there has been a person suffering from a communicable disease residing therein within the previous 8 weeks until the house and all articles therein have been disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health;
(n) when letting a house for hire, make a false statement as to the presence or absence of a person suffering from a communicable disease within the previous 8 weeks having resided therein;
(o)
(i) hire or use any public conveyance or hearse for conveying the body of a person who has died from a communicable disease without first so informing the owner or driver,
(ii) being the owner or driver of such conveyance or hearse fail to report the same to the medical officer of health;
(p) fail to bury within 12 hours the body which is under his or her care or keeping, of any person who has died from a communicable disease unless the medical officer of health has so sanctioned;
(q) hold or attend any wake over the body of a person who has died from a communicable disease;
(r) remove the body of a person who has died from a communicable disease in a hospital or isolation station without permission of the medical officer of health, and then only—
(i) direct to the place of interment, or
(ii) to a mortuary,
the medical officer of health in granting permission may impose such conditions as appear necessary to him or her.