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CHAPTER – VIII OTHER POWERS AND PENALTIES · Sanitation and Prevention of disease

Section 279-A: Power to examine persons suspected to be suffering from infectious diseases

The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act 16 of 2026.

1[When there is any reason to believe that a case of infectious disease notifiable under section 279 has occurred in building the medical officer of health or other competent person deputed by him shall, subject to the provisions of section 287, enter the said building and make an examination of the person or persons suspected to be suffering from the disease and may also obtain material for pathological examination, if necessary :

Provided that all females above the age of eight years shall be inspected by persons of their own sex only. ]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Add. by sec. 13 of U. P. Act no. XVII of 1934.

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