HC Deb 22 July 1897 vol 51 cc814-5

  1. (1.) Any local authority may serve a notice on the owner of any bedding, clothing, or other articles which have been exposed to the infection of any infectious disease, respiring the delivery thereof to an officer of the local authority for removal for the purpose of destruction or disinfection; and if any person fails to comply with such notice he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
  2. (2.) The bedding, clothing, and articles if so disinfected by the local authority, shall be brought bark and delivered to the Owner free of charge, and if any of them suffer any unnecessary damage, the authority shall compensate the owner for the same, and the authority 3 ball also compensate the owner for any articles destroyed; and the amount of compensation shall be recoverable in a summary manner.

Amendment made: In Sub-section (2), before "compensate," insert "reasonably."—(Lord Advocate.)

Clause 53,—

PENALTY ON CEASING TO OCCUPY HOUSE WITHOUT DISINFECTION OR NOTICE TO OWNER, OR MAKING FALSE ANSWER.

(1.) Where a person ceases to occupy any house, or part of a house, in which any person has within six weeks previously been suffering from any infectious disease, and either—

  1. (a) fails to have such house, or part of a house, and all articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of a medical officer, as testified by a certificate signed by him, or such articles destroyed; or
  2. (b) fails to give to the owner or occupier f such house, or part of a house, notice of the previous existence of such disease; or
  3. (c) on being questioned by the owner or occupier of, or by any person negotiating for the hire of, such house or part of a house, as to the fact of there having within six weeks previously been therein any person suffering from any infectious disease, knowingly snakes a false answer to such question,
he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. (2.) The local authority shall cause their officers to serve notice of the provisions of this section on the occupier of any house or part of a house in which they are aware that there is a person suffering from an infectious disease.

Amendment made: In Sub-section (1), paragraph (a), leave out "a" ["a medical officer"], and insert "the."—(Lord Advocate.)

Clause 58,—