LawgistThe Cantonments Act
167Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or contagious disease
Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, no owner, driver or person in charge of a public conveyance shall be bound to convey or to allow to be conveyed in such conveyance in or in the vicinity of a cantonment any person suffering from an infectious or contagious disease or the corpse of any person who has died from such disease unless and until such person pays or tenders a sum fixed by the Chief Executive Officer from time to time, to cover any loss and expense which would ordinarily be incurred in disinfecting the conveyance.
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Prevention of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases
- 155 Obligation concerning infectious, contagious o communicable diseases
- 156 Blood Bank
- 157 Special measures in case of outbreak of infectious or epidemic diseases
- 158 Power to require names of a dairyman‟s customers
- 159 Power to require names of a washerman‟s customers
- 160 Power to require names of patients or customers of a medical practitioner or paramedical workers
- 161 Report after inspection of dairy or washerman or medical practitioner‟s place of business
- 162 Action on report submitted by Health Officer
- 163 Examination of milk, washed clothes or needles, syringes, etc
- 164 Contamination of public conveyance
- 165 Disinfection of public conveyance
- 166 Penalty for failure to report
- 167 Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or contagious disease
- 168 Disinfection of building or articles therein
- 169 Destruction of infectious hut or shed
- 170 Temporary shelter for inmates of disinfected or destroyed buildings or shed
- 171 Disinfection of building before letting the same
- 172 Disposal of infected article without disinfection
- 173 Means of disinfection
- 174 Marking or selling of food, etc., or washing clothes by infected person
- 175 Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink
- 176 Control over wells, tanks, etc
- 177 Disposal of infectious corpse
