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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 11

Prohibition on persons coming in contact with body of person dying from notifiable disease.

11.(1) No person shall, without the consent of [the chief administrative
medical officer of a Health and Social Services Board] or of some other
medical practitioner, enter or remain in any room in which is lying the body
of a person who has died while suffering from a notifiable disease, nor shall
the occupier of any premises in which any such body is lying permit any person
to enter or remain in such room without such consent.

(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be
guilty of an offence under this Part.

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