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(d) A payment made to any medical practitioner in pursuance of this
section shall not disqualify that practitioner from serving as a member of the
Corporation or as a Guardian of a Union situate wholly or partly in the City
or in any municipal or parochial office
(2). (a) Where the .Medical Officer of Health certifies that the cleansing
and disinfecting of any building (including in that term any ship, vessel, boat,
tent, shed, or similar structure used for human habitation) would tend to
prevent or check Tuberculosis of the Lung the Town Clerk shall give notice
in writing to the owner or occupier of such building that the same or any part
thereof will be cleansed and disinfected by the Corporation at the cost of the
Corporation unless the owner or occupier of such building informs the
Corporation within 21 hours from the receipt of the notice that he will cleanse
and disinfect the building or the part thereof to the satisfaction of the Medical
Officer of Health within the time to be fixed in the notice. If within 24 hours
from the receipt of such notice the owner or occupier of such building has not
informed the Corporation as aforesaid or if having so informed the Corporation
he fails to have the building or the part thereof disinfected as aforesaid within
the time fixed by the notice the building or the part thereof shall be cleansed
and disinfected by the officers and at the cost of the Corporation under the
superintendence of the Medical Officer of Health. Provided that any such
budding or part thereof may without any such notice being given as aforesaid
but with the consent of the owner or occupier be cleansed and disinfected by
the officers of and at the cost of the Corporation under the superintendence of
the Medical Officer of Health.
(6) For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this sub-section
the Corporation may by any officer authorised in that behalf who shall produce
his authority in writing enter on any premises between the hours of ten
o'clock in the forenoon and six o'clock in the afternoon.
(c) Every person who shall wilfully obstruct any duly authorised officer of
the Corporation in carrying out the provision of this sub-section shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings and if the offence is a continuing one
to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
(3). (a) The Medical Officer of Health generally empowered by the
Corporation in that behalf may by notice in writing require the owner of any
household or other articles books things bedding or clorhing which have been
exposed to the infection of Tuberculosis of the Lung to cause the same to be
delivered over to an officer of the Corporation for removal for the purpose of
disinfection and any person who fails to comply with such requirements shall
be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
(b) Such articles books things bedding and clothing shall be disinfected by
the Corporation and shall be brought back and delivered to the owner free of
charge.
(4). If anv person sustains any damage by reason of the exercise by the
Corporation of any of the powers of sub-sections (2) and (3) of this section in
relation to any matter as to which he is not himself in default full compensation
shall be made to such person by the Corporation and the amount of
compensation shall be recoverable in and in the case of dispute may be settled
by a Petty Sessional Court.