(1) When any person suffering from any dangerous disease is found to be—
(a) without proper lodging or accommodation, or
(b) living in a room or house which the neither owns or pays rent for nor occupies as the guest or relative of any person who owns, or pays rent for it, or
(c) living in a sarai, hotel, boarding house or other public hotel, or
(d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families,
the Commissioner or any person authorised by him in this behalf, may on the advice of any medical officer of the rank not inferior to that of an assistant surgeon remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such disease are received for medical treatment and may do anything necessary for such removal.
(2) 1[2[The Corporation]] shall if required by the 3[Government] erect an infectious diseases hospital of such type and dimension as that Government may direct.
Footnotes in the official text
- 1.Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “the Corporation” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
- 2.Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for “a Corporation” (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
- 3.Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “Central Government” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).