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2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1912, (a) if a local authority, on the report in writing
of their Medical Officer of Health, are satisfied that a person residing
in their district who is engaged in any such employment or occupation
as aforesaid is suffering from tuberculosis of the respiratory tract and is
in an infectious state, they may by notice in writing signed by the Clerk
or the Medical Officer of Health require such person to discontinue his
employment or occupation on or before the date specified in the notice,
such date being not less than seven days after the service of the said
notice, and such person shall thereupon comply with the said notice. A
notice issued by the local authority under these regulations shall be in the
form set forth in the Schedule hereto.
3. (1) If any person deems himself aggrieved by a requirement of a
local authority under these regulations, he may, within fourteen days after
the service of notice of the requirement, appeal to a court of summary
jurisdiction and shall in that event give written notice to the Clerk to the
local authority of his intention to appeal and the ground thereof.
(2) The court may make such order in the matter as may seem
equitable to them, and may award costs, which shall be recoverable summarily
as a civil debt, and the order so made shall be binding and conclusive.
(3) Upon the hearing of an appeal under this article the court
shall have power with the consent of the appellant to direct that he be
examined by a registered medical practitioner nominated by the court.
4. The provisions of section 308 of the Public Health Act, 1875,
(which relates to compensation for damages sustained by reason of the
exercise of the powers of the Act) shall apply to any person who sustains
any damage by reason of the exercise of any of the powers of these
regulations in relation to any matter as to which he is not himself in
default.