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(1)No person who knows that he is suffering from a notifiable disease shall—
(a)enter any public conveyance used for the conveyance of persons at separate fares, or
(b)enter any other public conveyance without previously notifying the owner or driver that he is so suffering.
(2)No person having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notifiable disease shall permit that person to be carried—
(a)in any public conveyance used for the conveyance of persons at separate fares, or
(b)in any other public conveyance without previously informing the owner or driver that that person is so suffering.
(3)A person who contravenes any provision of this section—
(a)shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale, and
(b)in addition to any fine imposed, shall be ordered by the court to pay to any person concerned with the conveyance as owner, driver or conductor a sum sufficient to cover any loss and expense incurred by him in connection with the disinfection of the conveyance in accordance with section 34 below.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 21–34 applied by S.I. 1988/1546, reg. 3, Sch. 1
(1)The owner, driver or conductor of a public conveyance used for the conveyance of passengers at separate fares shall not convey in it a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notifiable disease.
(2)The owner or driver of any public conveyance may refuse to convey in it any person suffering from a notifiable disease until he has been paid a sum sufficient to cover any loss and expense which will be incurred by reason of the provisions of subsection (3) below.
(3)If a person suffering from a notifiable disease is conveyed in a public conveyance, the person in charge of the conveyance shall—
(a)as soon as practicable give notice to the local authority for the district in which the conveyance is usually kept, and
(b)before permitting any other person to enter the conveyance, cause it to be disinfected,
and any person concerned with the conveyance as its owner, driver or conductor may recover summarily as a civil debt from the person so conveyed, or from the person causing that person to be so conveyed, a sufficient sum to cover any loss and expense incurred by him.
(4)A person who contravenes any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
(5)The local authority, when so requested by the person in charge of a public conveyance in which a person suffering from a notifiable disease has been conveyed, shall provide for its disinfection, and shall make no charge for the disinfection except in a case where the owner, driver or conductor conveyed a person knowing that he was suffering from a notifiable disease.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Ss. 21–34 applied by S.I. 1988/1546, reg. 3, Sch. 1
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