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36 Medical examination of group of persons believed to comprise carrier of notifiable disease. E+W
(1)If a justice of the peace (acting, if he deems it necessary, ex parte) is satisfied, on a written certificate issued by the proper officer of the local authority for a district—
(a)that there is reason to believe that one of a group of persons, though not suffering from a notifiable disease, is carrying an organism that is capable of causing it, and
(b)that in the interest of those persons or their families, or in the public interest, it is expedient that those persons should be medically examined,
the justice may order them to be medically examined by a registered medical practitioner nominated by the local authority for that district.
(2)Subsections (2)
and (3) of section 35 above apply in relation to subsection (1) above as they apply in relation to subsection (1) of that section.
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