17Exposure of persons and articles liable to convey notifiable disease
(1)A person who—
(a)knowing that he is suffering from a notifiable disease, exposes other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any street, public place, place of entertainment or assembly, club, hotel, inn or shop,
(b)having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notifiable disease, causes or permits that person to expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any such place as aforesaid, or
(c)gives, lends, sells, transmits or exposes, without previous disinfection, any clothing, bedding or rags which he knows to have been exposed to infection from any such disease, or any other article which he knows to have been so exposed and which is liable to carry such infection,
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
(2)A person shall not incur any liability under this section by transmitting with proper precautions any article for the purpose of having it disinfected.