Section 54: Power of justice of peace to order medical examination of group of persons believed to comprise a carrier of a notifiable disease

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

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54(1)

If a justice of the peace (acting, if he deems it necessary, ex parte) is satisfied, on a written certificate issued by the medical officer of health of any district.—

(a) that there is reason to believe that one of a group of persons, though not suffering from a notifiable disease, is carrying an organism that is capable of causing it; and

(b) that in the interest of those persons or their families, or in the public interest, it is expedient that those persons should be medically examined ;

the justice may order them to be medically examined by the medical officer of health or by a registered medical practitioner nominated by him.

54(2)

An order under this section may be combined with a warrant under section 287(2) of the Public Health Act 1936 authorising the medical officer of health to enter any premises.

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