Section 70: Copy of notice under section 242 of the Public Health Act 1936 to be sent to health authority if it is not local authority

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

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Part IV: Miscellaneous Matters

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70(1)

Where the local authority within whose district a common lodging-house is situate are not a local health authority, the medical officer of health of the district shall, on the day on which he receives a notice under section 242 of the Public Health Act 1936 (duty of keeper of common lodging-house to notify cases of infectious disease) from the keeper of such a lodging house (if possible) and in any case within forty-eight hours after the receipt of the notice, send a copy thereof to the local health authority within whose area that lodging-house is situate.

70(2)

In this section " local authority " and " district" have the same meanings as in the said Act of 1936, and " local health authority " means an authority that is a local health authority for the purposes of Part III of the National Health Service Act 1946.

70(3)

This section does not apply to Scotland.

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