Public Health (Scotland) Amendment Act 1907

Section fifty-seven of the M1Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, shall be read as if the words “that proper precautions against spreading disease or infection have been taken, and that such child may attend school without the risk of infecting others” were substituted for the words “that such child has become free from disease and infection, and infection, and that the house and everything therein exposed to infection has been disinfected to the satisfaction of such medical officer or medical practitioner”.

Section fifty-eight of the said Act shall be read as if the words “shall (a) without proper precautions against spreading such disease or infection, milk any animal, or pick fruit, or engage in any occupation connected with food, or shall (b)” were substituted for the words “shall milk any animal, or pick fruit, or shall engage in any occupation connected with food, or;” and as if the words “or infection, and any person who knowing himself to be suffering from any infectious disease”.

Section fifty-nine of the said Act shall be read as if the words “unless in every such case as aforesaid proper precautions have been taken against spreading such disease or infection ; and any person contravening any of the foregoing provisions shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds ; and if without such precautions” were substituted for the words “and any person contravening any of the foregoing provisions shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds ; and if”.