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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 3

Power of resident magistrate to order medical investigation.

3.(1) If a resident magistrate is satisfied, on the evidence of [the chief
administrative medical officer of the Health and Social Services Board for any
area], that

(a)there is reason to believe that some person in that area is, or has been,
suffering from, or is a carrier of, a notifiable disease, and

(b)in the interest of that person, or in the interest of his family, or in the
public interest, it is expedient that he should undergo a medical
investigation, and

(c)that person is not under the treatment of a medical practitioner or that
the medical practitioner who is treating him consents to the making of an
order under this section,

(2) Any person who fails to comply with an order made under subsection (1)
shall be guilty of an offence under this Part and shall, until such time as
[the chief administrative medical officer of the
Health and Social Services Board] is satisfied that he is not suffering from a
notifiable disease, or, as the case may be, is not a carrier of such a
disease, be deemed

(a)for the purposes of sections 4 and 10, to be suffering, and to know that he
is suffering, from a notifiable disease, and

(b)for the purposes of sections 4 to 15, to be a carrier of an
infectious disease.

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