Malaysia legislation

Section 25

of Public Health Ordinance 1960

Section 25

(1)

The local authority may cause the destruction of any building, bedding, clothing or other article which has been exposed to infection from a notifiable disease.

The local authority shall pay reasonable compensation for any building or article so destroyed to the person having interest therein, unless the neglect or default of the claimant thereto shall have made such destruction necessary.

(2)

Any person aggrieved by a decision of the local authority upon the amount of compensation under subsection (1) may, within thirty days of the notification to him of the decision by which he is aggrieved, appeal to the Court of a Magistrate of the First Class, or where the matter relates to a building valued at more than three thousand ringgit to the

High Court, whose decision shall be final.

Penalty for letting infected premises.