Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 s 10
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s 10 Requirement to notify infectious disease
(1) Every adult occupant of any house in which any infectious disease appears, and every person in charge of, or in the company of, and every person not being a medical practitioner attending on, any person suffering from or who has died of an infectious disease
shall, upon becoming aware of the existence of such disease, with the least practicable delay notify the officer in charge of the nearest district health office or government health facility or police station or notify the nearest village head of the existence of such disease.
(2) Every medical practitioner who treats or becomes aware of the existence of any infectious disease in any premises shall, with the least practicable delay, give notice of the existence of the infectious disease to the nearest Medical Officer of Health in the form prescribed by regulations made under this Act.
(3) The person in charge of any boarding-house shall, with the least practicable delay, notify the officer in charge of the nearest district health office or government health facility or police station if he knows or has reason to believe that any person in the boardinghouse is suffering from or has died of an infectious disease.
(4) Any police officer or village head receiving notification under this section shall, with the least practicable delay, notify the officer in charge of the nearest district health office or government health facility.
(5) Any person who contravenes this section commits an offence.
(6) When any person is charged under this section, he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of the infectious disease or to have had reason to believe that an infectious disease existed, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the Court before which he is charged that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained knowledge of the infectious disease or that he did not have reason to believe that an infectious disease existed. Declaration of an infected local area
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Tiap-tiap penghuni dewasa mana-mana rumah Kehendak tempat terdapatnya apa-apa penyakit berjangkit, dan supaya memberitahu tap-tlap orang yang menjaga, atau yang ada bersama tentang dengan, dan tıap-tiap orang yang bukan pengamal herjangkit. perubatan yang menyelenggarakan mana-mana orang yang mengidap atau yang mati akibat penyakit berjangkit hendaklah, apabila dia tahu tentang wujudnya penyakit itu, memberitahu pegawai penjaga pejabat kesihatan daerah atau kemudahan kesihatan kerajaan atau balai polis yang paling hampir atau memberitahu ketua kampung yang paling hampir, seboleh-bolehnya tanpa kelengahan, tentang kewujudan penyakit itu.
(2) Tiap-tiap pengamal perubatan yang merawat atau mendapat tahu tentang wujudnya apa-apa penyakit berjangkit di mana-mana premis hendaklah memberikan notis tentang wujudnya penyakit berjangkit itu kepada Pegawai Kesihatan yang paling hampir, seboleh-bolehnya tanpa kelengahan, dalam borang yang ditetapkan oleh peraturan-peraturan yang dibuat di bawah Akta ini. hendaklah 3dabaa mangemenja segaaai pmalagampangan kesihatan daerah atau kemudahan kesihatan kerajaan atau balai polis yang paling hampir, seboleh-bolehnya tanpa kelengahan, jika dia tahu atau mempunyai sebab untuk percaya bahawa mana-mana orang dalam rumah tumpangan itu mengidap atau telah mati akibat penyakit berjangkit.
[Bah. IV, S. 10-11]
(4) Mana-mana pegawai polis atau ketua kampung yang menerima pemberitahuan di bawah seksyen ini hendaklah memberitahu pegawai penjaga pejabat kesiatan daerah afau kemüdihan kesibalan keraan hampir, seboleh-bolehnya kelengahan.
(5) Mana-mana orang yang melanggar seksyen ini adalah melakukan suatu kesalahan.
(6) Apabila mana-mana orang dıpertuduh dı bawah seksyen ını, dia hendaklah dlanggap telah tahu tentang kewujudan penyakit berjangkit itu atau telah mempunyai sebab untuk percaya bahawa suatu berjangkit wujud, melainkan jıka dia menunjukkan sehingga Mahkamah di mana dia dipertuduh berpuas hati bahawa dia tidak tahu dan tidak mungkin boleh tahu tentang penyakit berjangkit itu dengan usaha yang berpatutan atau bahawa dia tidak mempunyai sebab untuk percaya bahawa suatu penyakit berjangkit wujud. Pengisytiharan kawasan tempatan jangkitan:
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Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
