17Power of Health and Social Services Board to remove temporarily inmates from building in which infectious disease occurs.N.I.
(1)Where any infectious disease occurs in a building, or where [F1 a Health and Social Services Board] deem it necessary to disinfect any building, [F1 the Board], acting on the advice of its[F2 Director of Public Health], may—
(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 [F1 the Board];
(b)cause any such person to be so removed without any consent, if a court of summary jurisdiction, being satisfied, on the application of [F1 the Health and Social Services Board], 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.
(2)[F1 A Health and Social Services Board] may provide and shall defray the cost of the provision of temporary shelter or house accommodation for the purposes of this section.
(3)[F1 The Health and Social Services Board] 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.