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Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984
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24Infected articles not to be taken or sent to be washed or cleaned
(1)A person shall not send or take to any laundry or public washhouse for the purpose of being washed, or to any place for the purpose of being cleaned, any article which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a notifiable disease, unless that article—
(a)has been disinfected by or to the satisfaction of the proper officer of the local authority for the district or a registered medical practitioner, or
(b)is sent with proper precautions to a laundry for the purpose of disinfection, with notice that it has been exposed to infection.
(2)The local authority may pay the expenses of the disinfection of any such article 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 local authority, furnish to them the address of any laundry, wash-house or other place to which articles from the house have been or will be sent during the continuance of the disease for the purpose of being washed or cleaned.
(4)A person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
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