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(1) No person who knows that he is suffering from a communicable disease shall expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in --- (a) any street or public place, or (b) any market, theatre or other place of entertainment or assembly, or (c) any school, college, playground or such other place, or (d) any hotel, hostel, boarding house, choultry, rest-house or club, or (e) any factory or shop. 54 Explanation. – A person shall be deemed to know that he is suffering from a communicable disease within the meaning of this sub-section if he has been informed by the Health Officer or any other officer of the Public Health Department of the Government or of a local authority, not below the rank of Health or Sanitary Inspector, or a medical practitioner, that he is so suffering. (2) No person who has the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a communicable disease shall cause or permit that person to expose others to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any place referred to in sub-section (1). Forbidding work in infected premises