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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 5

Power to order child likely to convey notifiable disease not to attend school.

5.(1) Where a child is or has been suffering from, or is or has been exposed
to the infection of, a notifiable disease, [the chief administrative medical
officer of the Health and Social Services Board] for the area in which the
child resides or attends school may, for the purpose of preventing the spread
of the disease, serve a notice on the person having the care of that child
directing that, for such period as may be specified in the notice, the child
shall not attend school.

(2) Any person who permits a child to attend school in contravention of a
notice served on him under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence under
this Part.

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