When any infectious disease occurs in a house, or the local authority deem it necessary to disinfect any house, the authority may, on a certificate of the medical officer of health of the district—
cause any person who is not himself sick and who consents to leave the house, or whose parent or guardian, where the person is a child, consents to his leaving the house, to be removed therefrom to any temporary shelter or house accommodation provided by the authority;
cause any such person to be so removed without any consent, if a justice of the peace (acting, if he deems it necessary, ex parte) is satisfied, on the application of the authority, of the necessity for the removal and makes an order for the removal, subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the order.
The local authority shall in every case cause the removal to be effected and the conditions of any order to be satisfied without charge to the person removed, or to the parent or guardian of that person.
A local authority may provide temporary shelter or house accommodation for the purposes of this section.