Section 5 Provisions as to notification of diseases.F1C2C1
United Kingdom
F2 Notwithstanding anything in the M1 Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, or in any other Act, or in any Order of the Local Government Board, the following provisions shall have effect:—
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Every case of any such disease occurring in any building, tent, van, shed, or similar structure in the occupation of any of His Majesty’s forces, or of any person employed F4under the Ministry of Defence shall be notified to the F5chief administrative medical officer of the Health Board for the area by the medical attendant if it would have been his duty to notify it if it had occurred elsewhere; and the Health Board shall pay to the medical attendant (unless he is a medical officer who holds a commission in any of His Majesty’s forces) for the certificate or notification a fee of one shilling, whether the case occurs in his private practice or otherwise.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
S. 5 repealed (E.W.) by Public Health Act 1936 (c. 49), s. 346, Sch. 3 and Public Health (London) Act 1936 (c. 50), Sch. 7
- F2
S. 5 repealed (S.) (1.10.2009) by Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2, Savings and Consequential Provisions) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/319), art. 2, Sch. 3 Pt. 1
- F3
Ss. 1, 4, 5(a) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42)
- F4
Words substituted by S.I. 1964/488
- F5
Words substituted by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 58), Sch. 6 para. 70
Marginal citations
- M1
Modifications
- C1
“any such disease” means a case of disease to which the Act or Order applies
- C2
S. 5 applied by S.I. 1965/1536