Section 53: Power of justice of peace to order examination of person believed to be carrier of notifiable disease

Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 · 1968 c.46

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Section 38(1) of the Public Health Act 1961 (power of a justice of the peace to order the medical examination of a person believed to be, or to have been, suffering from a notifiable disease) shall be amended by the insertion, after the word " disease ", of the words " or, though not suffering from such a disease, is carrying an organism that is capable of causing it".

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