A person shall not send or take to any laundry or public washhouse for the purpose of being washed, or to any place for the purpose of being cleaned, any article which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a notifiable disease, unless that article has been disinfected by, or to the satisfaction of, the medical officer of health of the district or some other registered medical practitioner, or is sent with proper precautions to a laundry for the purpose of disinfection, with notice that it has been exposed to infection.
The local authority may pay the expenses of the disinfection of any such article as aforesaid if carried out by them or under their direction.
The occupier of any building in which a person is suffering from a notifiable disease shall, if required by the local authority, furnish to them the address of any laundry, washhouse or other place to which articles from the house have been, or will be, sent during the continuance of the disease for the purpose of being washed or cleaned.
A person who contravenes, or fails to comply with, any provision of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.