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Long Title

Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II ADMINISTRATION

Part III CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES WITHIN SINGAPORE

Part IV CONTROL OF AIDS AND HIV INFECTION

Part V PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTO SINGAPORE

Part VI VACCINATION AND OTHER PROPHYLAXIS

Part VII ENFORCEMENT

Part VIIA NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH

Part VIII MISCELLANEOUS

FIRST SCHEDULE Infectious Diseases

SECOND SCHEDULE Dangerous Infectious Diseases

THIRD SCHEDULE Requirements As to Vaccination and Other Prophylaxis

FOURTH SCHEDULE Diseases Against Which A Child Is to be Vaccinated

FIFTH SCHEDULE Diseases in Respect of Which Acts Referred to in Section 21a Are Prohibited

SIXTH SCHEDULE Diseases in Respect of Which Information May be Disclosed by the Director to A Person to Enable Him to Take Steps to Prevent Spread of Diseases

Legislative History

Comparative Table

 
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On 26/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 26/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 26/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 14/05/2013.
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Certain persons not to act in manner likely to spread disease
21A.
—(1)  A person who knows, or has reason to suspect, that he is a case or carrier or contact of a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule shall not expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any public place or any other place used in common by persons other than the members of his own family or household.
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(2)  A person having the care of another person whom he knows, or has reason to suspect, is a case or carrier or contact of a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule shall not cause or permit that person to expose other persons to the risk of infection by that person’s presence or conduct in any such place.
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(3)  A person shall not lend, sell, transmit or expose, without previous disinfection, any clothing, bedding or rags which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule, or any other article which he knows to have been so exposed and which is liable to carry such infection.
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(4)  Any person who contravenes subsection (1), (2) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence.
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(5)  A person shall not incur any liability for contravening subsection (1) if his presence or conduct in a place mentioned in that subsection is necessary for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment.
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(6)  Where the Director has designated a hospital or other place for the treatment of any disease set out in the Fifth Schedule, subsection (5) shall only apply in relation to the obtaining of medical treatment at the designated hospital or place for that disease.
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(7)  A person shall not incur any liability for contravening subsection (3) by transmitting with proper precautions any article for the purpose of having it disinfected.
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