{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-3A.json",
  "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/3A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Removal to hospital of person with notifiable disease.",
  "text": "(1) Where a resident magistrate is satisfied, on the application of the Regional Agency that a person is suffering from a notifiable disease and that serious risk of infection is thereby caused to other persons, the magistrate may order him to be removed to a hospital.\n(2) An order under this section may be addressed to an authorised officer and that officer and any other authorised officer may do all acts necessary for giving effect to the order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1986 NI 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1967/36/section/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:30:37.780848+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}