PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 7 Restriction on sending articles exposed to infection by notifiable disease to laundry etc.

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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 7

Restriction on sending articles exposed to infection by notifiable disease to laundry etc.

7.(1) No person shall send, cause to be sent, or take to any laundry or public
wash-house for the purpose of being washed, cleaned or dyed any article which
he knows to have been exposed to infection from a notifiable disease unless

(a)the article has been disinfected by, or to the satisfaction of, [the chief
administrative medical officer of a Health and Social Services Board] or some
other medical practitioner, or

(b)the article is sent or taken with proper precautions for the purpose of
disinfection to a laundry, which has proper facilities for the disinfection
thereof, and is accompanied by a written notification that it has been exposed
to infection.

(2) [The Health and Social Services Board] may pay the expenses of the
disinfection of any such article as aforesaid if carried out by them or under
their direction.

(3) The occupier of any building in which a person is suffering from a
notifiable disease shall, if required by [the chief administrative medical
officer of the Health and Social Services Board] for the area, furnish to him
the address of any laundry, wash-house or other place to which articles from
the building have been, or will be, sent or taken during the continuance of
the disease.

(4) Any person who contravenes any provision of this section shall be guilty
of an offence under this Part.

(5) In this section "laundry" includes any premises in which a business
performing any of the functions or providing any of the facilities of a
laundry, dry or wet cleaners or dyers is carried on, whether or not the
operations therein are performed by the customers.

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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 7