Section 10

Every medical practitioner who treats or becomes aware of the existence of any infectious disease in any premises shall, with the least practicable delay, give notice of the existence of the infectious disease to the nearest Medical Officer of Health in the form prescribed by regulations made under this Act.

The person in charge of any boarding-house shall, with the least practicable delay, notify the officer in charge of the nearest district health office or government health facility or police station if he knows or has reason to believe that any person in the boarding-house is suffering from or has died of an infectious disease.

Any police officer or village head receiving notification under this section shall, with the least practicable delay, notify the officer in charge of the nearest district health office or government health facility.

Any person who contravenes this section commits an offence.

When any person is charged under this section, he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of the infectious disease or to have had reason to believe that an infectious disease existed, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the Court before which he is charged that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have

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obtained knowledge of the infectious disease or that he did not have reason to believe that an infectious disease existed.

Declaration of an infected local area