Driver of conveyance not bound to carry persons suffering from dangerous disease

Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force no owner, driver or person in charge of a public conveyance shall be bound to convey or to allow to be conveyed in such conveyance in or in the vicinity of the municipal area any person suffering from a dangerous disease or the corpse of any person who had died from such disease unless and until such person pays or tenders a sum sufficient to recover any loss and expenses which would ordinarily be incurred in disinfecting the conveyance.