Right to ask questions.

(1) No 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, shall if questioned by any person negotiating for the hire of the house, or any part thereof, as to whether there is, or has been within the preceding six weeks, in any part of the house a person suffering from a dangerous disease, knowingly make a false answer to that question. (2) No person shall let any house or part of a house in which a person has to his knowledge been suffering from a dangerous disease without having the house, and all articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health or of some other registered medical practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him. (3) No owner or manager of a hotel, lodging house, serai or dharamshala, shall allow a room therein in which any person has to his knowledge been suffering from a dangerous disease to be occupied by any other person before the room and all articles therein liable to retain infection have been disinfected to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health or of some other registered medical practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him.