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Officer of Health. Such persons may be removed to a
suitable hospital, infirmary, poor law institution or other
suitable institution or place either within or without the
district, and they may be detained and maintained there for
a period not exceeding three months or such further period
as may be determined by further orders. The penalty for
obstructing such an Order is not exceeding £10.
Procedure to be followed by Medical Officer of Health.
(1) The Medical Officer of Health certifies in writing
in one or other of the two following forms :—
(a) That the person is aged or infirm or physically
incapacitated and resides in premises in the
district which are insanitary owing to any
neglect on the part of the occupier thereof or
under insanitary conditions.
or, alternatively—
(b) That the person is suffering from grave chronic
disease.
(2) The Medical Officer of Health further certifies
that such person is unable to devote to himself or to
receive from persons with whom he resides proper care
and attention, and that thorough enquiry and consideration
have shown the necessity, in the interest of the health
of such person and for preventing injury to the health
of or serious nuisance to other persons, that he should
be removed from the premises in which he is residing.
(3) The Medical Officer of Health gives to any
person to be removed under the provisions of this section,
or to some person being in charge of such person, three
days' clear notice of his intention to make an application
to a Petty Sessional Court.