Section 20
Duty to report suspected cases of infectious disease
of Workers' Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990
It shall be the duty of the resident registered medical practitioner or, in his absence or if there is no resident registered medical practitioner, the resident manager, to isolate at once any employee or other person on an estate whom he may suspect to be suffering from any infectious disease as defined in the
Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 [Act 342], and to detain under observation any other person whom he may deem likely to have contracted such disease and with the least possible delay to notify the nearest Medical Officer, and pending the arrival on the estate of the Medical Officer of Health, the resident registered medical practitioner or the resident manager shall take appropriate preventive measures and thereafter consult the Medical Officer of Health on any further action to be taken.
(2)
Any person who neglects to perform the duty imposed upon him by subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit and to a further fine of one thousand ringgit a day for each day during which the offence continues.