Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The local authority shall take steps to prevent the outbreak of a communicable disease and to control it by providing such diagnostic and laboratory facilities, staff, medicine, appliances, equipment, facilities for removal, isolation, accommodation of patients and other facilities may, in the opinion of the Health Officer, be necessary for the purpose. (2) If the local authority fails to take such steps as are recommended by the Health Officer under sub-section (1) or if, in the opinion of the Director the steps taken by the local authority are insufficient for the purpose, he may take or require or empower any person to take such measures and, by pubic notice, prescribe such temporary regulations to be observed by the public or by any person or class of persons, as he shall deem necessary, to prevent the outbreak of a communicable disease or its spread. (3) Two or more local authorities may jointly take such steps and provide the necessary facilities as may be recommended by the Health Officer/Officers under sub- section (1) for the purpose of preventing the outbreak of a communicable disease and to control it. Jurisdiction over boats, vessels, vans, tents, etc.