If a person ceases to occupy a house or part of a house in which to his knowledge a person has within six weeks previously been suffering from a notifiable disease and either—
fails to have the house, or the part of the house, and all articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health of the district or some other registered medical practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him; or
fails to give to the owner of the house, or the part of the house, notice of the previous existence of the disease; or
on being questioned by the owner as to whether within the preceding six weeks there has been therein any person suffering from any notifiable disease, makes a false answer to such question,
he shall be liable, in the case of an offence under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this subsection, to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and, in the case of an offence under paragraph (c), to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.
The local authority shall give notice of the provisions of this section to the occupier and also to the owner of any house in which they are aware that there is a person suffering from a notifiable disease.