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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-17",
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  "legislation": "apni/1967/36",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-northern-ireland-1967",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Power of Regional Agency to remove temporarily inmates from building in which infectious disease occurs.",
  "text": "(1) Where any infectious disease occurs in a building, or where the Regional Agency deem it necessary to disinfect any building, the Regional Agency, acting on the advice of its Director of Public Health, may—\n(a) cause any person who is not himself suffering from the disease and who consents to leave the building, or where the person is a child, with the consent of the person having care of him, to be removed therefrom to any temporary shelter or house accommodation provided by the Regional Agency;\n(b) cause any such person to be so removed without any consent, if a court of summary jurisdiction, being satisfied, on the application of the Regional Agency, of the necessity for the removal, makes an order in that behalf, which order shall be subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified therein.\n(2) The Regional Agency may provide and shall defray the cost of the provision of temporary shelter or house accommodation for the purposes of this section.\n(3) The Regional Agency shall in every case cause the removal to be effected and the conditions of any order to be satisfied without charge to the person removed.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 2(2); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
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      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 2(2); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
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      "text": "1991 NI 1"
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      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 2(2); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
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      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 2(2); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
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      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 2(2); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
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      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 2(2); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
    },
    {
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      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 2(2); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1967/36/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:30:37.780848+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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