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Provision and maintenance of isolation hospitals and wards.—(1) (a) The local authority may, and if so required by the Government shall, provide, or cause to be provided, hospi- tals, wards or other places for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from infectious diseases. (b) For the purpose of the reception and treatment of such persons, a local authority may— (i) itself build such hospitals, wards or place of recep- tion; or (ii) contract for the use of any such hospital or part of a hospital or place of reception; or (iii) enter into an agreement with any person having the management of any such hospital for the reception and treatment therein of persons suffering from infectious diseases. ‘ (c) For the purpose aforesaid, two or more local authori- ties may in combination provide a common hospi- tal or place of reception ¢ 7 89 (2) A local authority shall not be deemed to have discharg- ed its obligation under sub-section (1) unless the hospitals, wards or places of reception in question are maintained in accordance with such genera] or special orders as may, from time to time, be issued by the Director of Public Health.