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Section 159: Provisions as to use of public conveyances by persons suffering from notifiable disease.

Public Health Act 1936 · 1936 c. 49View on legislation.gov.uk

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Part V: Prevention, Notification and Treatment of Disease.

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No person who knows that he is suffering from a notifiable disease shall—

enter any public conveyance used for the conveyance of persons at separate fares,- or
enter any other public conveyance without previously notifying the owner or driver thereof that he is so suffering.

No person having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notifiable disease shall permit that person to be carried—

in any public conveyance used for the conveyance of persons at separate fares; or
in any other public conveyance without previously informing the owner or driver thereof that that person is so suffering.

A person who contravenes any provision of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds and, in addition to any fine imposed, shall be ordered by the court to pay to any person concerned with the conveyance as owner, driver or conductor thereof a sum sufficient to cover any loss and expense incurred by him in connection with the disinfection of the conveyance under the provisions in that behalf contained in the next succeeding section.

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