Section 71: Compensation for stopping employment to prevent spread of disease in Scotland.

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

This provision is repealed

It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

Part IV: Miscellaneous Matters

REPEALED on 2009-10-01 by Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008.
The text below is the provision as originally enacted. It is historical and may not include amendments made before this status change. View the enacted source.

71(1)

With a view to preventing the spread of—

(a) any infectious disease, or

(b) any food poisoning to which section 22(1) of the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956 applies,

a person who is at work may be requested by the medical officer of health for the place where the person is at work, by notice in writing, to discontinue his work.

71(2)

The local authority for the place in question shall compensate a person who has suffered any loss in complying with a request under this section; and any dispute arising under this subsection, whether as to the fact of loss or as to the amount of any compensation, shall be determined by a single arbiter, who, failing agreement between the parties, shall be appointed by the sheriff.

71(3)

In this section " local authority " in relation to a county, including any small burgh situated therein, means the county council, and, in relation to a large burgh, means the town council; and " small burgh " and " large burgh " have the same meanings as in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947.

71(4)

This section applies to Scotland only.

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