Clause 8

A person who knows or has reason to suspect that he is a case or carrier or contact of a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule shall not expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any public place or any other place used in common by persons other than the members of his own family or household. (2) A person having the care of another person whom he knows or has reason to suspect is a case or carrier or contact of a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule shall not cause or permit that person to expose other persons to the risk of infection by that person’s presence or conduct in any such place. (3) A person shall not lend, sell, transmit or expose, without previous disinfection, any clothing, bedding or rags which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule, or any other article which he knows to have been so exposed and which is liable to carry such infection.(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (1), (2) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence.(5) A person shall not incur any liability for contravening subsection (1) if his presence or conduct in a place mentioned in that subsection is necessary for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment.(6) Where the Director has designated a hospital or other place for the treatment of the disease concerned, subsection (5) shall only apply in relation to the obtaining of medical treatment at the designated hospital or place.(7) A person shall not incur any liability for contravening subsection (3) by transmitting with proper precautions any article for the purpose of having it disinfected.”.