Version Superseded: 06/04/2010
Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, Section 29 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)If a person who—
(a)is concerned in the letting of a house or part of a house, or in showing a house or part of a house with a view to its being let, or
(b)has recently ceased to occupy a house or part of a house,
is questioned by any person negotiating for the hire of the house or any part of it as to whether there is, or has been within the preceding six weeks, in any part of the house a person suffering from a notifiable disease, and knowingly makes a false answer to that question, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.
(2)A person who lets any house or part of a house in which a person has to his knowledge been suffering from a notifiable disease without having the house, or the part of the house, and all articles in it liable to retain infection, properly disinfected shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
(3)The keeper of a hotel or inn who allows a room in it in which a person has to his knowledge been suffering from a notifiable disease to be occupied by any other person before the room and all articles in it liable to retain infection have been properly disinfected shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
(4)In this section and in section 30 below, “properly disinfected” means disinfected to the satisfaction of the proper officer of the local authority for the district or a registered medical practioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 21–34 applied by S.I. 1988/1546, reg. 3, Sch. 1
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