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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 10

Provisions as to the letting of houses or caravans or rooms in hotels etc., after recent case of notifiable disease.

10.(1) Any person who, whether as principal or agent, lets a house or caravan
in which to his knowledge there has been, within the previous six weeks, a
person suffering from a notifiable disease without first having, to the
satisfaction of [the chief administrative medical officer of a
Health and Social Services Board] or of some other medical practitioner,
disinfected the house or caravan and all articles therein liable to retain
infection, shall be guilty of an offence under this Part.

(2) The keeper of an hotel, inn, guest house, boarding house or apartment
house who allows a room therein in which any person has to his knowledge been
suffering from a notifiable disease to be occupied by any other person before
the room and all articles therein liable to retain infection have been
disinfected to the satisfaction of [the chief administrative medical officer
of a Health and Social Services Board] or of some other medical practitioner,
shall be guilty of an offence.

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