Section 3

The officer in charge of the police station or penghulu receiving such information shall with the least practicable delay, communicate the same to the health officer.

Particulars of the information.

The information above required shall include the name, residence, sex and occupation of the sufferer or dead person, the nature of the disease and the date of onset thereof, and any other matter necessary for ascertaining the source and origin of such disease so far as such information is within the knowledge of the informant.

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Every police officer or penghulu becoming aware of the occurrence of any infectious disease or suspected infectious disease shall immediately give information regarding such disease to the health officer and to the officer in charge of the nearest police station.

Medical practitioners to give notice.

Any medical practitioner who treats or becomes cognisant of the existence of any infectious disease or suspected infectious disease, the existence of which has not already been reported by a medical practitioner, in any private or public dwelling or any place in the district other than a Government hospital shall give notice of the same in writing to the health officer of the district with the least practicable delay.

Every notice given under subsection (5) shall be in the form in the First Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein set out.

Whenever the notice refers to a dangerous infectious disease, the health officer shall immediately notify the

Director of Medical Services or an officer appointed by him in writing.

Notice in case of death.

A medical practitioner shall notify to the health officer the death of any person suffering from infectious disease or suspected infectious disease on whom he has been in attendance at the time of the death.

Penalty for neglecting to give information with the least practicable delay.

Any person who is required under this section to give information of any infectious disease or suspected infectious disease or any death from any infectious or suspected infectious disease, neglecting without reasonable excuse, proof of which shall lie on him, to give such information with the least practicable delay, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of

$200, and for a second or subsequent offence a fine of $400 and imprisonment for 3 months.

Penalty for refusing to give information or for giving false information.

Any person who knowingly omits or refuses to give any information which he is required to give under this section, or furnishes as true information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine

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of $500, and in the case of any medical practitioner a fine of

$1,000.

Presumption.

When any person is charged with neglecting to give information of any infectious disease or suspected infectious disease or any death from any infectious or suspected infectious disease, he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of such disease, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court before which he is charged that he had no such knowledge and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.

Notice of recovery to health officer.

When any medical practitioner in attendance on any person suffering from infectious disease is satisfied that such person has so far recovered as, in the opinion of such medical practitioner, to be no longer a source of infection to others, such medical practitioner shall notify the same in writing to the health officer.