Section 27Part 6 — Notification, Prevention and Suppression of Disease
Infected clothes not to be sent to laundry
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No person shall give, lend, transmit, sell or expose for sale, without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags or other things which have been exposed to infection from any infectious disease.
No person shall take, send or deliver to any public washing place or to any laundry, or give to any person, for the purpose of being washed, any bedding, clothes or other things which that person knows to have been exposed to infection from any infectious disease, unless they have been disinfected by or to the satisfaction of a Medical Officer of Health.
Whoever contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence.
An Environmental Health Officer may, on the application of any person, supervise the carrying out of the disinfection of any such bedding, clothes or other things free of charge.
Defined Terms
infectious diseaseMedical Officer of HealthEnvironmental Health Officer