LawgistThe New Delhi Municipal Council Act
291Disinfection of buildings before letting the same
(1) Where any building or part of a building is intended to be let in which any person has, within six weeks immediately preceding, been suffering from a dangerous disease, the person letting the building or part shall, before doing so, disinfect the same in such manner as the Chairperson may by general or special notice direct together with all articles therein liable to retain infection.
(2) For the purposes of this section the keeper of a hostel, lodging house, dharamshala, sarai, boarding house, guest house, hotel or club shall be deemed to have let to any person who is admitted as a guest therein that part of the building in which such person is permitted to reside.
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Prevention of Dangerous Diseases
- 282 Obligation to give information of dangerous disease
- 283 Removal to hospital of patients, suffering from dangerous disease
- 284 Disinfection of buildings and articles
- 285 Destruction of infectious huts or sheds
- 286 Means of disinfection
- 287 Special measures in case of outbreak of dangerous or epidemic diseases
- 288 Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry
- 289 Contamination and disinfection of public conveyance
- 290 Driver of conveyance not bound to carry persons suffering from dangerous disease
- 291 Disinfection of buildings before letting the same
- 292 Disposal of infected articles without disinfection
- 293 Prohibition of making or selling of food, etc., or washing of clothes by infected persons
- 294 Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink
- 295 Control over wells and tanks, etc
- 296 Duty of persons suffering from dangerous disease
- 297 Disposal of infectious corpses where any person has died from any dangerous disease
