Forbidding work in infected premises

(1) If there occurs on any premises,- (a) a case of infectious disease, or (b) any mortality among rats, cats, squirrels, monkeys or other animals in such circumstances as are referred to in section 3, the Health Officer may, whether in the case referred to in clause (a) the person suffering from the disease has been removed from the premises or not, make an order forbidding any work to which this section applies to be given out to any person living or working on these premises or in such part thereof as may be specified in the order, and any order so made may be served on the occupier of the factory from which the work is given out or on any contractor employed by such occupier, (2) An order under this section may be expressed to be operative for a specified time or until the premises or any part thereof specified in the order have been disinfected to the satisfaction of the Health Officer, or may be expressed to be inoperative so long as any other reasonable precautions specified in the order are taken. (3) This section applies to the making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting, finishing or repairing of wearing apparel and any work incidental thereto, and to such other classes of work as may, from time to time be notified by the Director of Public Health. (c) The expenses of the removal and disposal of any body under clause (a) or clause (b) shall be borne by the local authority, but such expense may be recovered, as if it were a tax due to it, by the local authority from any person who would have been legally liable therefor but for such removal and disposal unless in the opinion of the local authority he is too poor to admit of the recovery of such expense. (4) (a) If any person dies in a hospital or a place of temporary accommodation for the sick while suffering from an infectious disease and the Health Officer certifies that in his opinion it is desirable, in order to prevent the spread of infection, that the body should not be removed from such hospital or place except for the purpose of being taken direct to burial or burning ground or a crematorium for being forthwith buried or cremated, no person shall remove the body from the hospital or place except for such a purpose. (b) When the body is removed for the purpose aforesaid it shall forthwith be taken direct to a burial or burning-ground or a crematorium, and there buried or cremated with the least practicable delay. (5) Without the permission of the Health Officer no person shall cause or permit to be carried in a public conveyance the dead body of any person who had died while suffering from an infectious disease.