PART IINFECTIOUS DISEASES
7Restriction on sending articles exposed to infection by notifiable disease to laundry etc.
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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,F1the Director of Public Health 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
F2The Regional Agency 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 F4the Director of Public HealthF3. . . , 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.